Your Biggest Pet Peeves

[apocrypha]

My pets do not peeve me, they're great. Well, apart from when Sputnik sleeps on my pillow and covers it in fluff.




And yes, I looked it up. Peeve can be used as a verb 

[Signe]

Grown men acting like fussy little princesses.

Whew!  Thankfully I still can without peaving Signe off.

You are never peavy!

People who use my first name when we aren't friends/family. It's as rude as fuck, I DON'T KNOW YOU.

People who don't put shit away when they are done using it.

What are they supposed to call you?  MISTER TWAT?  Or nothing?  Do you really intend for people to be formal? 

People who use baby talk, even when talking to babies, it makes me want to puke.

Children.

What are people supposed to call you?  Mister Twat?  Why so formal?  At YOUR age? 

(I had to do this post in steps because someone came to deliver something and I posted it too soon by mistake.  Sorry to F-Twat if he thought I was quoting him in agreement.  If he did, he should have known better)

[Lantyssa]

You should have put your post away between the first part and dealing with the post.  Not properly doing so might annoy Fatuous.

We wouldna wanna upset lil Fatuous now woulds we?  Oh noes we wouldn'ts.

[Hindenburg]

People who use my first name when we aren't friends/family. It's as rude as fuck, I DON'T KNOW YOU.

Wut?

[FatuousTwat]

I guess I'm just insane, but I know a few people who feel the same way.

And yes, I do have a lot of peeves about how informal society has become, I have no idea where they came from.

[Broughden]

People who don't put shit away when they are done using it.

My wife does this. Drives me fucking bonkers.

[Signe]

I guess I'm just insane, but I know a few people who feel the same way.

And yes, I do have a lot of peeves about how informal society has become, I have no idea where they came from.

No, if you were insane you wouldn't say so.  You're neurotic.  Just like the rest of us only in your own special way.  One thing I do know, though - informal is good! 

[MahrinSkel]

People who don't put shit away when they are done using it.

My wife does this. Drives me fucking bonkers.

Mine is people who put shit "where it belongs" when I left it where it was because that was the next place I was going to need it.  Hyper-organized people spend so much time making sure everything is "just so", yet somehow can never find the important shit without a 3 hour search.

The remote does *not* need to go in the drawer under the TV, it's perfectly fucking fine in the cushions of the couch or on the end table.  The keys do *not* need to go into the proper cabinet on a hook, I know I always leave them in the last pair of pants I was wearing when I drove.  That scrap of paper I wedged under the phone had a phone number I needed, having to dive in the dumpster for it is not helpful.  If I left the hammer out, it's because I wasn't done pounding nails.  And so on.

--Dave

[FatuousTwat]

People who don't put shit away when they are done using it.

My wife does this. Drives me fucking bonkers.

Mine is people who put shit "where it belongs" when I left it where it was because that was the next place I was going to need it.  Hyper-organized people spend so much time making sure everything is "just so", yet somehow can never find the important shit without a 3 hour search.

The remote does *not* need to go in the drawer under the TV, it's perfectly fucking fine in the cushions of the couch or on the end table.  The keys do *not* need to go into the proper cabinet on a hook, I know I always leave them in the last pair of pants I was wearing when I drove.  That scrap of paper I wedged under the phone had a phone number I needed, having to dive in the dumpster for it is not helpful.  If I left the hammer out, it's because I wasn't done pounding nails.  And so on.

--Dave

I was talking more about not putting condiments and peanut butter etc away when you are done with them. Also, walking into a room where I'm watching TV, turning a light on that throws glare onto it, then walking away without turning the light off is another example. I probably should have said that not returning things to the condition that they were in when it inconveniences another person drives me up the wall.

I agree that some stuff doesn't really need a specific place.

[Merusk]

Anyone 'hyper organized' who spends 3 hours looking for anything isn't hyper-organized.. they're just obsessive tidy-uppers and think "out of sight = 'cleaned up.'"

Not that I have 'exact places' for things, but I'm OCD enough that plates go on one shelf, cups on another and your keys/wallet you just put the same place every day when you get home so you don't fucking lose them.

Then again, I've threatened to tether my remote control to the coffee table if I find it wedged under the sofa again.  Why should I have to look for things for 3 hours because you're too lazy to put them in a decent spot.

[DraconianOne]

Using "Literally" as a synonym for "Totally" or "Completely."

Like, "That literally blew my mind, man."  No, it fucking didn't, or I'd be going for a mop right now.  Or "I literally just wanted to punch her in the face."  Uh, this is usually literal, I don't know of any way of figuratively punching someone in the face.

Tell me, does incorrect use of the word "really" annoy you as well? When it's used to put emphatic stress on sentences? E.g. "I'm really dying laughing from reading everyone's pet peeves?" Because the word "really" is, literally, a synonym of "literally". I'm not really dying. It's just a figure of speech, used to emphasize a point.

Anyway, if it's good enough for Twain, Joyce, Austen, Fitzgerald, Thackeray, Dickens, Dryden and Pope to use the word literally to mean figuratively, then it's good enough for me too.

[Nebu]

1) People that cannot defend their beliefs.

2) People that eat like animals (making mouth noises while eating because they can't keep their fucking lips together)

3) People that use words like "axe" (instead of ask) or nook-u-lar. 

4) People that get laughs at the expense of those less fortunate or anyone that picks on the helpless.

5) Greedy people or people with no morals/ethics.

6) Selfish people.

[Azazel]

Mine is people who put shit "where it belongs" when I left it where it was because that was the next place I was going to need it.  Hyper-organized people spend so much time making sure everything is "just so", yet somehow can never find the important shit without a 3 hour search.

The remote does *not* need to go in the drawer under the TV, it's perfectly fucking fine in the cushions of the couch or on the end table.  The keys do *not* need to go into the proper cabinet on a hook, I know I always leave them in the last pair of pants I was wearing when I drove.  That scrap of paper I wedged under the phone had a phone number I needed, having to dive in the dumpster for it is not helpful.  If I left the hammer out, it's because I wasn't done pounding nails.  And so on.

--Dave

I was talking more about not putting condiments and peanut butter etc away when you are done with them. Also, walking into a room where I'm watching TV, turning a light on that throws glare onto it, then walking away without turning the light off is another example. I probably should have said that not returning things to the condition that they were in when it inconveniences another person drives me up the wall.

I agree that some stuff doesn't really need a specific place.

To Dave's point I have a policy at home which I usefully call "Don't touch my shit". And when people do move it, I helpfully crack the shits with them bigtime, so it helpfully happens less often.

And I do agree with what Mr Twat says here as well.

[stray]

It's a weird thing to get pissed at, but I am peeved by people who get to a stop sign before I do, and just sit there and wave me by. It happens a lot... a lot lot.. and it's starting to drive me nuts. Damn your courtesy!

[Chimpy]

The term "pet peeve".

Had a teacher in high school that used that term way too much. She also pronounced 'wash' as "waarsh".

Drove me batty.

[Nebu]

She also pronounced 'wash' as "waarsh".

Drove me batty.

Stay away from most of Maryland.  I had a roommate from that area that said the same thing.  It takes getting used to. 

[Kail]

Using "Literally" as a synonym for "Totally" or "Completely."

Tell me, does incorrect use of the word "really" annoy you as well? When it's used to put emphatic stress on sentences? E.g. "I'm really dying laughing from reading everyone's pet peeves?" Because the word "really" is, literally, a synonym of "literally". I'm not really dying. It's just a figure of speech, used to emphasize a point.

A bit, yeah (seems grammatically awkward to me), but not as much.  I can see "really" meaning "very" or "truly" or whatever else, but "literally" has a pretty specific meaning as I see it.

[FatuousTwat]

pronounced 'wash' as "waarsh".

My mom does that. Warshington. But then again, I say crick sometimes instead of creek, so whatever.

[Righ]

People that eat like animals

Osmosis and photosynthesis would be much more convenient. 

[Nebu]

Gotta love selective quotes! 

[Righ]

The rest was in parenthesis. It was a fair quote. 

[Signe]

I love it when smart people argue about fiddly things.

[Nebu]

I love it when smart people argue about fiddly things.

I'm not arguing.  I just need practice at taking a jab. 

[Oban]

I'm not arguing. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnLDMqPBeKQ

[Nebu]

I love that scene. 

[DraconianOne]

A bit, yeah (seems grammatically awkward to me), but not as much.  I can see "really" meaning "very" or "truly" or whatever else, but "literally" has a pretty specific meaning as I see it.

That's the point though: for the best part of 200 years the authors of what are considered to be some of the greatest works of the English language used the word "literally" as a contranym and no-one bats an eyelid. Then, one day in the early 20th century, someone decides that no, there is no room for variation and contranyms are just too damned hard to get your head around so from now on, "literally" shall have one meaning and one meaning only.

God forbid that Shakespeare was alive and well and writing today. He wouldn't get a look in because people would be too ready to pedantically pounce on his every sentence:  "Who does this Shakespeare think he is? He can't even use english properly! How dare he take good, well-used nouns like 'rival', 'torture', 'cake' and 'partner' and make them verbs. What fool thinks he can invent a word like 'lacklustre'? An assassin murders, not 'assassinates'. This stuff is rubbish."

So yeah, okay: my pet peeve is people imposing rules that stifle the evolution and devlopment and beauty of (the English) language. I should probably blame Ambrose Bierce and his "Little Blacklist of Literary Faults".

That being said, I totally agree with Samwise that "irregardless" is an horrendous abomination of a word and isn't so much evolution as incestuous crossbreeding leading to a monstrosity that deserves only to be put down.  

[MrHat]

Any period of waiting around that is longer than 15 mins generally annoys the fuck out of me.

[NowhereMan]

People who think because they suffered an accident somewhere they deserve compensation, I'm sorry even if you missed most of your daughter's 21st and spent it in the hospital having your broken arm treated that doesn't automatically mean the venue owes you money. Even if other people fell over, it was a party, they were dancing and they were drunk of course they fucking fell over it's not like you need the fucking money anyway.

On an unrelated note my aunt has asked me several times to be a witness for her regarding some important legal thing.

[Jeff Kelly]

poeple standing around at the most inconvenient place, like at the exit of an escalator, just behind an automatic door and blocking the way to everybody else.

[Broughden]

From this morning....

The fucking yellow teethed British cunts at the BBC who insist on pronouncing Nissan as Nis - san.
Its fucking pronounced Nee-sahn you fucking cock gobbling wankers!!!!! 

[Ironwood]

Tell you what :  You can have that when you start pronouncing Aluminium correctly.

 

[Salamok]

Tell you what :  You can have that when you start pronouncing Aluminium Aluminum correctly.

 

FIFY 

[NowhereMan]

Gee willikers I hope you Americans start a nookular war over our 'mispronouncing' that word too

[Jeff Kelly]

Another big pet peeve of mine: Could somebody please fix the damn thread title already!

[Lantyssa]

Now all my 'peave' jokes look like I'm just a lousy speller.