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I am bored and irritable because this just happened, so I am posting  :grin:

What are your biggest pet peeves? At Work or Home.

So I work in a professional organization where I hear the following AT LEAST twice a day:

Business:

1. "Irregardless" - Thats not a word people!!
2. "I could care less" - Really? So you could care more? Even though the point you are trying to make is that you do not care. /smack

Personal:

1. People that say "whatever" in a debate... shows lack or preparation and/or intelligence
2. Slamming doors - not sure why but I hate that lol


Edit - for those that consider inaccurate spelling a pet peeve :)

People who spell 'peeve' incorrectly.

Here's one:

How can someone not know how to spell "peeves?"

Edit: God. Damn. You. Rattran.

Whatever....  :oh_i_see:

So basically the only reason it's not an accepted word is because people keep insisting it's not an accepted word. The english language is a fascinating and ever-changing entity. Stop being such an asshole and go with the flow.

Fo'shizzle mah nizzle. Preach fo' all o' us.

Man I have so many pet peeves.

Saying I don't know drives me crazy. If someone does something they better know why they do it.

Grabby hand motions. As in, "gimme that." *grabby hand motion*

Those all-caps forum handles drive me nuts.

People who print out electronic documents and then hand them to me.  It's fucking electronic, send me an email.

Touche'

I must have thinking about Jake Peavy or my Peavy amps ><

When someone calls me the wrong name.

My first name is Ethan, I hear:

Ian
Nathan

even fucking Jason

How in the fuck do you get Jason from Ethan?

would that be Peavey amps. as in http://www.peavey.com/ (http://www.peavey.com/)

No, it's not an accepted word because it's a double negative.  "Regardless" already means "without regard".  "Irregardless" would mean "not without regard".  If it meant anything at all.  But people who use it almost invariably use it to mean "regardless".  Because they're fucking mouth-breathers who stick prefixes onto words regardless of their meanings, hoping that if they can manage to squeeze out a four-syllable word now and then they might pass for someone with a grasp of the English language.

God DAMN do I hate them.

Irregardless it's still used.







 :why_so_serious:

Speaking of peavey one of my pet peeves is web administrators that don't set up a host record to allow for no www prefix.  Good job http://peavey.com (http://peavey.com)!

It is even more special when the #1 google result for your company (peavey (http://www.letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=peavey)) direct you to your website w/o using the www prefix which your dumb ass forgot to support.

And you even get bonus points for making the title of your page "peavey.com" w/o the www prefix that you seem to feel is a requirement for your visitors.

So this buds for you mr super duper web hoster man!

(http://dl-client.getdropbox.com/u/40386/Macros/stfu.jpg)

(http://dl-client.getdropbox.com/u/39720/f13/Six_Mouths.png)

I cleaned up the artifacting. I just couldn't take it. So many people use that image. It HAD TO BE FIXED.

"Ain't" became a word irregardless of people saying it wasn't.

 :drillf:

Edit: To make sense.

"Irregardless" is linguistics IN ACTION. It will be in your grandchildren's dictionary, if it isn't already in there.

That said, most of my big pet peeves are semantic. I especially hate people screwing up classifications: ape/monkey, bee/wasp, etc.

When asking you to do something, people who say, "Please and Thank You!"

That shit gets on my nerves and I don't even know why.

While we're on the subject of "words", here are two of my most hated:

Conversate - Converse is already a verb, asshole, you don't have to add "ate" to the end of it.

Ginormous - When you say this word, I get a strong urge to stab you in the eye with a pencil.

When someone makes something plural that IS NOT plural.

"I just bought some books at the Barnes & Nobles."  What, you went to more than one of them or something?

Red eyes in photos.

People that slam doors in hotels.

People that complain about first or business class food on airplanes.

People that sit in reserved seats on trains.

The word "got" used constantly.

The phrase "it's all good" used to refer to anything other than food.

Birthday parties.

I like ain't.  It's the contraction that couldn't. 

See:  You aren't = You are not. 
         I ain't = I am not. 

Perfectly logical.  But a hundred or two years ago, someone decided the first was ok and the second wasn't, and that we needed to say 'I'm not' instead.  I almost dislike correcting students on it. 

Reverse pet peeve!  I think we should say 'you was' instead of 'you were'.  It'll never happen, but it'd be more logical with our current lexis.  In old English we said 'thou was', then we starting using you for both the singular 'you' and the plural 'all of you'.  But we didn't switch the auxiliary!

I was - singular
He/she/it was - singular
they were - plural
we were -  plural
you were - plural???  Not in the vast majority of use.  Bah!  :uhrr:

Also, people chewing with their mouth open or smacking their gum, or even just eating loud and crunchy food, such as apples.  RAGE. 

Here you go:  http://joel.net/EBONICS/translator.asp (http://joel.net/EBONICS/translator.asp)

I don't have pet peeves, I have major psychotic fucking hatreds. And that's the god honest truth.

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.

I'm fairly confident that I won't have grandchildren, and I'm fairly confident that everybody else's grandchildren won't have dictionaries.

What a bunch of fussy little princesses you all are!

Way to contribute....so....what's your pet peeve? :P

Grown men acting like fussy little princesses.

I never actually came across this one before the internet.

In Australia, common use of the phrase is "I couldn't care less". The US version always looks wrong to me, becauuse as you say it doesn't make sense.

Do they use one or the other in the UK?

Whew!  Thankfully I still can without peaving Signe off.

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.

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

Children.

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  :why_so_serious:

You are never peavy!


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)

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.

Wut?

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.

My wife does this. Drives me fucking bonkers.

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! 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

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

Osmosis and photosynthesis would be much more convenient.  :grin:

Gotta love selective quotes!  :uhrr:

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

I love it when smart people argue about fiddly things.

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

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

I love that scene. 

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.  

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

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.

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.

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!!!!!  :drill: :drill:

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

 :grin:

FIFY  :awesome_for_real:

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

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

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

Let's hear your rant on flammable/inflammable.

Ain't that the comics off the internets that was made because someone said that Wow was a copy of Warhammer, irregardless....

(http://www.suburbannightmare.com/larlar/no_u3.jpg)

 :why_so_serious:

Can one have a pet peave about themselves? A self-peave perhaps?

When I begin a statement with "It's like, "

I analyze and worry about shit too much.

That's just because you're openly emo.

I'm resigned to emo-ness actually. Big difference. It's not actually who I am. :why_so_serious:

Wait, I've got one! HVAC systems that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars but don't cool properly in the summer or heat in the winter. Wearing my winter jacket in the office and still being uncomfortable (and I like the cold...just not all day every day). And in the spring/fall, can't open a window, they installed solid windows. So if it's nice out, the system's not on and the air is stale and motionless, or you run the system in fan mode and spend $$ rather than just open a fucking window.

I remember being in my upstairs office when it was installed, window open on a nice September afternoon. The retarded, kool-aid drinking lead contractor guy for the HVAC company asked me if he needed to adjust the temps in the room. I said no, it's beautiful out. He asked why I had the window open. I restated that it was a beautiful day. The moron couldn't understand the concept of anything outside the stupid HVAC system he installs. I got in a bit of trouble for saying that if opening a window on a beautiful day is wrong, than his system is retarded.

I think it goes beyond these HVAC goons (I've heard similar complaints from a local school that has it installed). The parking lot at our supermarket was redesigned a few years back, rather than the simple entrance/exit setup that worked perfectly fine, there's some convoluted curvy path some moron conceived you should follow. Of course the path makes no practical sense, and is completely a mental masturbation of engineering and leads to lots of traffic jamming as people try to get in and out effectively.

The engineer would probably just say the public doesn't get it and needs to be retrained.

Oh, and modern architecture and art. Shame on you for shitting on everything that came before you.

One more to the list, people who believe in politicians.

The two that get me are 'Orientate', and 'a myriad of'.

They should bother me less - they're not that bad.

I like "totally destroyed". 

Don't understand.  What don't you like about them? They're not neologisms like "conversate".

Orient, and Myriad. Ok, so 'orientate' is in common usage now, which like 'irregardless', I'll have to live with. It just bothers me.

'A myriad of' is just wrong though. You might as well say 'a many of'.


Edit: So apparently 'a myriad of' can be perfectly correct given the Greek origin. I've learned something. Sigh.

They're not wrong. "Orientate" as a word has been around for centuries.

Myriad is an adjective and a noun and has been since the Ancient Greek used "muriados" to mean "a number of 10000" and "murios" to mean "countless".  The sentences "myriad fish swim the seas" and "a myriad of diverse fauna in the oceans" are both correct.

Yes myriad is a synonym for "many". It's also a synonym for "plethora" (no, no it's not!) "multitude"

EDIT: A quick google shows that Orientate is used more prevalently in the UK but is considered a grammatical error in the US who don't like back-formation of words. So it's a culture thing.

EDIT 2: Fucking up my definitions like a fuckwit fucker.

Would you say I have a plethora of pinatas?

I'd say one is too many so if you have more than that then yes.

And I think I see your point...

Oh, come on dude.. You're supposed to be the movie expert.

(http://jensmanuel.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/guapo.jpg)

(One quick google later and )

Ah. I see. I've never managed to last more than about 20 minutes into that film. It pretty much marks the point where I think John Landis stopped making good films (with the exception of Innocent Blood). Hated it. Wouldn't know any quotes from it.

Best use of plethora in a movie ever.


Possibly, the only use.

Well thanks. Now I'm going to have to find something else to be grouchy about, in a smugly superior way.

I despise the people who zip along in a lane that is closing then force their way into traffic.  Or the guy who ignores a line anywhere that shit happened to me At the self checkout lines at the grocery store last night.

That really annoys Righ, too.  I don't understand your other one.  Do you mean people who cut in front of you when you're standing in line?  That's what shopping carts and loud voices are for, no?

I've seen a guy go into apoplectic rage at me because of this. He'd tried to force his way in at the last minute after cruising past everyone else who'd obeyed the "GTFO of this lane NOW" signs and I refused to let him in. I waited for about 20 seconds of him getting closer & closer to my car's nose, refusing to let him in, then he hit his horn, so I turned & looked at him and gave him the finger with a big grin on my face.

Dude nearly exploded. Never knew humans could turn that colour without dying. His car fucking shook as he vibrated inside it like wildebeest being given an enema and just as he finally got out of his car (at which point I started to shit myself tbh) the traffic in front of me started moving and the entire lane of us slowly moved away from him as he glowed gently in the distance.

It was awesome  :awesome_for_real:

People who don't pay me what they owe on the exact day and minute I expect it.

What the fuck were you doing on HIS road in the first place? 

People who talk on their cell phones while driving.  No, sorry, I am lying.  Women, not people.  Women who talk on their cell phones while driving.  I literally (or really) want them to crash.  For all the bullshit about how women are supposed to be great multi-taskers, I've never seen one who can do this even remotely well.  And yes, that includes every one of you females who might read this post.  Sorry.  Yes, even you.

Why just women?  Why shouldn't men crash and die in a car fire too?  Everyone around here does it and they all do it badly.  Geez, there's a lot of women haters on f13.  You don't even seem to think they're people!  It's a wee bit sick and scary, if you ask me. 

I'm very happy to say that Righ never answers his mobile when he's driving.  The few times I had to contact him when he was on the road, I would let it ring once or twice, hang up, do it again and again until he knew to pull over and call me.  Luckily, this hasn't happened very often.  Twice, if I recall. 

I like women just fine.  This is just a pet peeve.  I would have included men in it, but my experience is that men don't do this nearly as much as women (don't argue, it isn't even close), and they are better at it.

Want some man hate?  Okay.  Men who talk on their phones while pissing.  Even worse, those who do it whilst taking a dump.  Oh, and men who don't WASH THEIR GODDAMN HANDS after using the bathroom.  How about you just shit on the doorknob for me there, big fella?

Edit:  I had my sexes confused  :uhrr:

Dirty bathrooms.

I talk on the phone a little when I'm driving. It's no detriment to me really. Conversations aren't so involved that I can't pay attention to the road... Nor is it necessary to drive with both hands on the wheel. In fact, I think you're probably a weird and tense person if you keep both hands on the wheel too much.

My flaw in driving is when I lose patience. Gotta put a damper on that. The few accidents I've been in were all my fault - and it was when I lost patience. My awareness levels drop to 10% if I start acting that way.

What?  I thought you were a man all this time!   :ye_gods:

I think I promised to show you my nipples in some other thread, so that'll be the conclusive evidence.

Yeah, what happened with all that nipple stuff?  I didn't get even ONE nipple pm.  I'm disappointed. 

I am over it.  Please don't email me your nipples.

Pull up your goddamm pants!!
(http://images.paraorkut.com/img/pics/images/l/lil_wayne-7020.jpg)

Oh dear.  He kind of breathes through his mouth, doesn't he?  Maybe the trousers aren't really his fault, poor thing.

I've asked that in a "biological anthropology" thread once.. where nipple showing would be totally appropriate. No one takes nipples seriously there either.

Creationists who babble about chemistry, like this RFJE retard (http://www.antievolution.org/cgi-bin/ikonboard/ikonboard.cgi?s=4991ec8c73bb2a76;act=ST;f=14;t=5992). I find them funny when they are talking about geology or biology and getting it wrong. When they start spouting their nonsense about something I know a little bit about, I just want to choke a bitch.

Hang on hang on... men have nipples too, right? It's not just me?

Oh yes. 

(http://andrew61.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/lucky6.jpg)

Around here there are as many men who do this.  Business city and all.  They all use Stray's excuse, too.

Most of the women here refuse to use their phone while driving.  We've had this discussion before.  So, I do except f13's women.

You know your taste in men is similar to a gay man's?  :why_so_serious:


Except Righ, of course!

Obligatory "Thank you Signe I love you forever and ever" post.

 :drillf: :drillf: :drillf: :drillf: :drillf:

Modern HVAC systems are designed around the 'sealed envelope'   Yes, opening windows fucks up the whole system. Yes, it's incredibly retarded but you can blame engineers for this one.   Chances are it's only a one or two zone system since those are cheapest and you're in a public building.  Which is why you'll have those rooms that are comfortable right next to those that just plain suck.


You don't know how right you are on the supermarket design.  Sometimes it's because 'well there's this grade problem and the client isn't going to foot the bill for a retaining wall setup, so do this.'  More often than not it's some arbitrary decision by the designer - Architect or Civil Engineer.  (Usually Architect)

Now the question is, what do you mean by "Modern."  True Modernisim where buildings were typically white concrete and steel (Bauhaus, Gropius, Meier) , Postmodern (Venturi, Johnson), or Deconstructionist (Gehry, Eisenman)  Because they all relate back to history in some way and the only one I really see as "shitting" on it is Deconstruction with it's wonderful philosophy of "buildings aren't meant to be inhabited."

 :drill: :drill:

I do not like bland minimalist rectangles. Basically everything post-Craftsman. And I hate that I love craftsman because it really spurred the modernist thing. It's funny that it took buying a house and trying to fix it up to make me realize I live in the center of the birthplace of the craftsman movement.

Are there other shops connected to the supermarket? If so this sounds more like modern marketing at work, "on the way out make em drive past every shop in our lil strip mall and maybe we will trigger an impulse buy".

Yeah I hate bland boxy brick federalist style houses. I love the Craftsman style and bungalows. So we bought one.

Easy, now. I'm not talking about federalists! It's one of my favorite styles, assuming it was built before the 20th century. There are some brick feds in this city that zomg, especially when they add on properly (symmetrically) with two sunporches on either side with the big windows that have a zillion little divided lights...

Salamok - no. It's directly connected to a strip mall, but the strip mall has the normal enter/exit scheme and most people actually use that entrance and just drive cross-lot.

Got my styles wrong. I think Im refering more to.......

A) Colonial revival. Big brick box.

(http://z.about.com/d/architecture/1/7/6/P/colonial-revival.jpg.JPG)

or

B) American Foursquare

(http://z.about.com/d/architecture/1/7/4/P/american-foursquare-2533740.jpg)

You and I should split this off and make a house style thread!  :grin:

Eh, I like those, too. I guess it's more about the architectural details in older styles. The three forms of boxes we've discussed are vastly superior to:



Ranches, raised ranches, split-level ranches, modern, bauhaus (shiver), etc. Basically any style developed after 1900, with a couple exceptions.

Architectural styles are ALWAYS wrapped-up in economics and politics.  Since we're specifically discussing housing, one of the reasons you don't see Craftsman/ Arts & Crafts homes anymore is they're fucking EXPENSIVE.  While we build $400k shitboxes filled with plastics and polystyrene a true Craftsman would cost north of a few million these days.  People are more interested in square footage and surface asethetic than any actual craftsmanship and detailing that was a hallmark of the style.

Another part of the problem is, there's (almost) no mastercraftsmen anymore.  Try to find a Master Carpenter on a home site and chances are you won't. Most guys who build houses are called "Framers" and picked-up a hammer and began slinging nails on their own, no apprenticeship or training.   Trim carpenters? Lost art man, caulk makes up for lack of craft.   Of course, this also means houses are cheaper and can be afforded by (or could.. ) folks on reasonable budgets.

Minimalist bland rectangles are lazy Modernism.  The real masters had lots of little details, but you would only see them up close.  (I've even heard some folks argue Wright was, in his own way, a Modernist. Falling Water being the best example.)  There's no homes being done in any of the postmodern or other styles by the majority.  The building industry is it's own style alltogether, driven more by economy than art.

Fake Ed cuz Sky posted while I was typing:

Those are all "Builder Modern" homes.  There's probably actual style names associated with them, but they stem from economy and the dissapearance of mastercraftsmen after WW2.  Since we're stuck in the middle of that greater movement, its hard to ascribe any real definition to it, imo. 

Yes, but how could you like those square boxes compared to....

a beautiful Queen Anne?

or

Italianate  (we have a few of these in Louisville)
 

or Cotswold Cottage

or a gorgeous colorful stucco bungalow


We picked our craftsman bungalow (94 years old) with 5 bedrooms and 2 1/2 baths for under $300k. I love buying houses in a depressed market!

I don't like fussy houses, like Queen Anne and Italianate.  I actually prefer Modern.  I love high ceilings and giant windows. I could SO live in something like this:

(http://www.momoy.info/uploads/interior-design/Februari-2009/casasuntro-01.jpg)

I am very opposite Sky.  I don't like big chunky wood furniture much.  I like the very minimal of furnishings - comfy but not too many things.  I don't mind good man-made materials.  Sky and my sister like a LOT of the same things. I like glass, metal, tile, stone, leather.  You would think I'm cold, but I'm not!

PS I wasn't always like this.  I used to be different.  You know?

I would still take a federalist or a colonial, but at that point we're talking other factors. The colonial you linked is an example of poor expansion, you should keep those totally symmetrical like this (though this house lacks some details it should have)


Italianate are awful for this area because of the snowfall and poorly-pitched roofs. Still a bunch around. Most in this area are stripped down to be more of a featureless box than your first pic post. Queen Anne..yeah, my favorite. I came close to buying one a couple years ago, but it would've been financial trickery to get into it at $175k - my mother moving into the inlaw apartment and paying rent plus my fiancee moving in and sharing the mortgage. By way of comparison, I paid $57k for my house last year. I work at a library in a shitty little town, remember...My dream is to get a bigger house, hopefully with more land, but the market has priced that far beyond what I can hope to afford. Even with the housing crash, our market is so insulated (read: shitty) that prices aren't really falling despite sluggish movement. I gave up and bought something I could afford in a nice area.

Stucco....I'll let you know how I feel about that in a year or two. My house is stuccoed block, and they did a cheap patch job years ago on it that is pulling away. I like the durability of it, if it's installed properly. So yeah, we'll see how I feel after either I fix it or have to pay someone to.

Fake edit: Signe is exactly right. I would have to move if someone built an eyesore like that near me!

u r so ikea  :drillf:

Actually, my biggest pet peeve are people who are overly-competitive/over-compensating, who involve you in their insecurities like you were asking for a fight or something, not knowing whether you were nice or not. Bleh. Neverending series of "wtf?" with these people.

Yeah, that's a mouthful.. It's hard to explain a broad "pathology" like that. I'll just use one example to illustrate: the napoleon complex.

Nah uh!  i r so more Lilly Reich!   :drillf: :drillf: :drillf:

She just wants a house like the masoleum she woke up in for her first day of zombie afterlife.

The irritating thing about women driving while on the phone is that they all seem to believe that they can multitask at 100% efficiency.  It's not that men are better at driving while on the phone; opposite, really.  Women are better at driving while on the phone than a man would be, other things equal, but they are pretty sure they can drive just as well while on the phone as when actually concentrating on the road.  This is simply not true.

It's the same as people who feel they can drive after having a few drinks.

Hey, assholes. Don't play games with my life because you think you're special. Get off the fucking phone while you're driving or I'll pray you die in a single-car collision. When you're driving the car, you should be doing exactly one thing: paying attention to the road. Sorry if that bores you, because it equates to being alive. So since being alive is boring, go ahead and do everyone a favor and blow your brains out in the privacy of your own home.

I'm feeling cheery today.

Heh, today reminded me why I prefer to work at home for the above reasons.  I got stuck behind a lady that was fixing her hair and putting on her make up.  It took about 3 honks from me and multitudes from the people behind me to get her to wake up and turn left.   She continued to pull this hair fixing crap until she turned right a while down the road (thankfully).   Repeated the same dance with some asshole in a work truck chatting away on his cell phone.  Got to love it when you can tell their phone call has their FULL ATTENTION.

My pet peave is how people text and instant message.  Type that shit out.  The worst is when my manager does this.  He manages an information development department.  Writers.  If you can't spare the time to type out "thanks" instead of "thx" it's time to take some touch typing lessons.

Recent studies show that men and women have the same potential to multi-task. It's nothing inherent in being a woman, merely that as a socieity we require it of them for so much longer that they're better at it.  If we forced men to cook, take care of the kids and hold a job they'd be as good at it.

Just sayin'

Oh, my biggest pet peeve is the "anti male" culture that's developed over the last 20 years.  Yes, we're all big stupid lummoxes who can't do anything without a shrill desmacualting woman around.  Everything we start is doomed to failure. Hur de dur.

NO. Wiktionary or whatever piece of shit fake dictionary you got that from is WRONG. To wit: "irregardless" is a double negative, so even if it were a word its use (as intended) would always be incorrect. I'm not going to lower the bar just because a bunch of fucking morons can't use the language properly. "Hey everybody! Since so many of you are failing the test, we're just gonna make that test easier! Don't worry about getting smarter."

IRREGARDLESS IS NOT A WORD.

Also not a word (even if you hadn't made a typo). Way to make that point, Merusk.

(http://www.democraticwarrior.com/forum/images/styles/desert_sand/smilies/dog.gif)

 :why_so_serious:

He probably got it from one of those horrible, shitty fake dictionaries like:

Merriam-Webster's
American Heritage
Encarta
The Oxford English dictionary

It is not considered "proper" English but it is a fucking word so get over yourself and your superiority complex. I personally don't use the word but trying to pretend that language doesn't evolve over time is beyond retarded. Many words that are now considered proper were fought against tooth and nail by people just like you who want their language to be a fossil that is incapable of adjusting. Add language Nazis as one of my pet peeves.

That said I hate Ebonics and alot of the contractions of words that have grown out of the internet. I have offended more than one person by telling them that if a text message to me says something like "How r u?" I will not only ignore it but I'll decide that they may need to retake remedial English.

Oh, and for those who mentioned eating with your mouth open? It is in my top five pet peeves. Easily. My aunt calls me all the time while eating chips or other crunchy foods and gets annoyed when I hang up on her. If my wife is ever found murdered it will be because she did this on the wrong day. (Oddly, she isn't consistent about this. Some days she eats a bag of chips and I hear nothing. Other days it sounds like a chipmunk is sitting next to me on the couch.)

Finally, put me in the camp who will NOT let your ass in if you zoom down the road and try to force your way into the line I'm in when the road narrows. I will hug the bumper of the car in front of me and make it very obvious that you are not coming in.

And last, but not least: Tail gaters. If I ever die in a fiery crash it will be because of one of these sons of bitches. I've noticed in my state it is one of two groups of people who do this: Male pickup truck drivers (the more expensive and large the pickup is the closer they get to you) and female SUV drivers. If you are riding my ass expect me to brake and/or take my foot off of the gas and start to coast until you can't take it anymore. Alternately, if I have the option I will match speed with the slowest person I can find and make your life a living hell.

Yes, I'm going to get shot and/or run off of the road someday.

Wow, yeah big ball of fail there. I was thinking emasculating  and wrote demasculating.

Ah well, thanks for living up to your end of the stereotype.  :why_so_serious:

I thought it very cute!

We don't think men need our help, we just think they're stupid.  :drillf:

I have never claimed that any of these are real words! However! "Whatevs" is officially in the vernack (http://www.amazon.com/Will-Whatevs-Guide-Modern-Life/dp/0061346187). Suck it, naysayers.

I don't consider 'irregardless' a real word either.  It ranks up there with 'could care less' on the stupid scale.  I just found that particular juxtaposition amusing.  ;D

I'm willing to accept that "irregardless" is a 'real word'. Even words that aren't commonly accepted or which are considered absurd are still 'real words' after all. However, using "irregardless" in most contexts will mark you out as a blithering imbecile in educated company. If that's your lot in life, by all means embrace it.  :grin:

That just makes me think of American Psycho.

I'll take the hobbit hole, thanks  :awesome_for_real:

I like to use words like that to make people misunderestimate me. I enjoy being playful with the language, one of many legacies of St. Carlin.

People who don't understand the objective case (http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000352.htm) and write things like "He was as wet as I."

People who talk about "expresso".

"Hi, I'm Chet, and I'll be your server this evening".

Suburbs.

This, and people who "just can't function without coffee!" yet only drink 32-oz bullshit drinks from Starbucks that are all milk, sugar and whipped cream with sprinkles.

When bands I like start selling their album at Starbucks.

Starbucks.

Bloggers that don't use spellcheck.

"LOL!!!"

I work for an environmental consulting firm, yet half of my coworkers are too lazy to use the recycling bins that are RIGHT NEXT TO THE GARBAGE. Stabbity stab stab stab.

"chipoltay"

"It's a mute point." (have you ever noticed that people who say this tend to repeat the phrase often, but people who use it correctly don't?)

Debatable.  "He was as wet as I" might be considered short for "he was as wet as I was".  In which case the subjective form "I" is correct.

Fake edit: I googled it to make sure I'm not full of shit.  Looks like I'm not. (http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_it_as_lucky_as_me_or_as_lucky_as_I)  Thanks, three years of Latin!   :grin:

I hate people that think they are know it alls, but are almost always wrong... AKA stupid people.

People who talk about expresso?  Do you mean people who spell the word incorrectly?  Or am I not getting something? 

After reading that and VDL's post, I have the word "chipolatte" stuck in my mind.  I wonder what that would taste like?

I think he means people who think it's called an expresso (meaning something fast) rather than espresso (meaning made with pressure)* In other words people who don't really know what the word is.

*All translations are rough to the exxxxtreme.

This is what I thought too, but was too lazy and did not have three years of Latin street cred.

It would be good if it was a mocha, maybe! Like with that Xocolatl chocolate that Dagoba makes, that has cacao nibs and chile flake. Yum.

I'll add: The unusual amount of kids at Starbucks. They are a pet peeve of mine. In the line, at the drive-thru. Doesn't matter. I will never come to accept any reason why they should even be there, let alone always magically there before me ordering way too much bullshit.

Or maybe I just can't function without coffee.

That really does sound yummy.  I wonder what it would be like icy and frothy.  I don't have iced coffee often, but every now and then I get a craving for one.

Good news for you then, that Starbucks is releasing an instant coffee! No more waiting in  line!

When I make a pot of coffee, I throw a scoop of Dagoba nibs in with the beans. Yum.

No, I'm addicted to Americanos now. Instant espresso anything sucks. It's the simplest of drinks, but I still need a machine if it's going to be done at home.

[edit] After reading up on news about their new "instant" shit though, I'll add to my peeve list people who are "worried" about Starbucks doing this. Like they're "selling out"? Jesus Christ, of course they're selling out. It's Starbucks. What level of dumbfuck can you be to think Starbucks is gourmet in the first place..?

Anyways..

Starbucks has worked very, very hard to cultivate an image of elitism and exclusivity. Drinking it is supposed to be part because you like the taste and part because you like the symbol of affluence it is. At least that's the line that was given in the news story on NPR about it.

This is Starbucks taking a risk on diluting that image because not as many people are spending $5 on a shitty cup of coffee right now.   "Oh hay, my retirement fund is in the shitter, my company didn't give raises this year and I need to start stocking money away in case I get fired, too."  Suddenly the free / $.50 a cup coffee in the break room doesn't look so bad.   So to make sure they don't go the way of Subway it's time to 'slum it up a bit' and try to widen the brand.

I might just start working at Starbucks myself. Late drive-thru only shift. No customers. Free Coffee. Fuck it.

(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y95/pauldoyle/Gong-Expresso2-1978.jpg)

The irony is that Starbuck's success isn't, in my view, based on it being 'fancy coffee', but in having made espresso & associated drinks 'acceptable' to Joe American. It then became overpriced, and with the 2001 recession, a luxury item and the associated 'fancy' stigma.

Sexism.

What about it?

My Biggest Pet Peeve.  You know, the title of the thread and whatnot ?

It annoys me because I see a lot of it and it's always offensive.

D'oh!  I think I must have thought I was reading Useless Conversations or something!   :ye_gods:

Not a problem.

Here, here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hear_hear

Sorry, but it's a peeves thread.

 :why_so_serious:

Maybe she was calling you to come over so she could give you a nice big thank you hug!

There, there.

I couldn't be that lucky.  I think she's awesome.

 :awesome_for_real:

I'd still hug you.

The girl who does those "Congratulations, you've won a free Nintendo Wii (or iPod)" pop up ads. Please fucking stop already.

Congratulations, you've won two free ipod nanos.

Stray mentioned people ordering too much shit. Reminds me of being in line at a fast food joint, a place I don't want to be in the first place. Then the woman in front of me is trying to order stuff for people somewhere else....via cellphone. "Ok, I'll have three cheeseburgers...wait...what was that? .... .... .... Ok, four cheeseburgers, hold on....do you all want fries? ... .... ... ... ... Ok, three fries, no wait... ... ... ... four fries and....no, three cheesburgers and two fries.... ... oh, jimmy wants two fries? ... .... ok, three cheeseburgers and five fries...

My fiancee gets upset because about then I start yelling for her to get the fuck off the phone, out of line, and go call who-the-fuck-ever and write the order down, then get back in line.

I really fucking hate cell phones outside of emergency usage.

On the subject of food...

People that shovel food in like it's their first meal in years...
People that chew with their mouth open...
People that smack their food when they chew/eat...

I don't want to see or hear your food as you chew it you nasty fuckers.

Absolutely disgusts me, not so much of a peeve.  People have developed the absolute worst table manners these days.

When the car in front of me at the Timmy's drivethrough leaves a six foot gap between his car and the one in front of him - resulting in me having to lean out of my window and yell my order at the speakerbox.

People who cause traffic jams by lining up for drive-throughs.

Get out of your fucking car and go inside to order.

Drive-Throughs.

My in-laws think that eating in the carpark is so awesome. I hate it (especially as they smoke like chimneys in the car). They have tables inside the restaurant, why can't we park up and sit down to eat like civilised human beings?

On a similar note, all the mommies to those precious teenagers who can't be bothered to catch the bus or walk home, parking their giant ass SUV monstrosities out on the fucking road waiting for their precious offspring.  Fucking stabby time!

Net lingo associated with apps, that does fuck except confuse people and go against the whole idea of user friendliness. For instance, "scrobble" (Last.fm). Fuck you. Tell people how to use your product instead of making up words.

There's also jargon, which no one gives a fuck about except uber nerds, and then technical terms that have come into mainstream usage because there were no alternatives (download, pixel, etc..) - these are a little different. I could just do without these "cute" terms companies like to associate with their products.

I could do without all companies or products named after completely nonsensical shit too. I refuse to even use their shit, if they're named like that. There's a fuckton of strangely named things in the linux world, where it's hard to avoid, but some odd names sort of hit the mainstream, like "Joost" or "Miro". What the fuck is that? I mean, if you are going to do that, then at least have it somewhat associated with a real word. Like Google.. stupid word as well. But I think when Google came out, most people subconsciously associated it with "goggle". Same with Flickr. Obviously, it's associated with the flicker of a camera. Err... I guess.

"Joost" on the other hand.. I don't know. I think of juice and joust, which have fuck all to do with Joost, in the same sense that "goggles" and "flickers" have to do with Google and Flickr.

From wikipedia: "The name "Google" originated from a common misspelling of the word "googol"."

On Strays point, my web developer recently sent me an e-mail about wanting to show me a new app.  The appointment, says he, won't take too much of my time, since I'll grok it really easily.

No.

Don't do that shit.

You can do that shit if you're Raph.  Don't do that shit to me.

You have to name it Something. Working in banking, it drives me nuts when I see a company name like "214 East 85th Street Associates." Totally uncreative. Don't even get me started on how so many companies exist only to collect rent on properties - people get rich from this shit, but how is that work?

But anyway, Don't personally see a problem with making up names or your company or product, though trying to be cutesy about it does drive me a little nuts.

That's akin to saying "but banks only lend money with interest, how is that work?".

Spiderman can shot web, how is that work?

Something about that phrase really drives me up the wall. I think it's now one of my pet peeves, but only in text.

The idea people have, that somehow, something like the following is a good idea for a website to advertise one's own business:

www.arizonahome$4u.com

Wait.  Doesn't the web come out of his special suit?  Are you saying that it comes out of a hole in his wrist?  I don't believe that!

Spider man's wrist makes tubes, how is that work?

It's like the internet.

Nerd argument forthcoming.

Spider-Man was a science geek, who only got strength, regenerative, crawling, and dexterity powers (well that, and "spider sense") from the bite. He built the webs shooters to flesh out the spider alter-ego.

In the movie though, his webs were organic. Originally, I guess you could say that if he were a CoH character or something, he'd be part technological and part biological oddity. In the movie, he's simply a biological oddity.

I'm pretty sure that Spiderman's father was a giant spider and his mother was a seamstress which explains both the spidey sense and the special suit that shoots webs.  I'm fairly confident that I'm right.

His dad was the seamstress actually! I think he based the technology on some space-age adhesive that his dad invented.

Spiderwoman shoots web from her vajayjay.

I can't stop using the word Vajayjay lately.

I agree with Stray on the stupid name thing, because it's always the pseudo-techs that are all fucking hot and bothered over the new online gizmo.

I hate gizmos in general, git off mah lawn. OH NO THERES THAT DERN PURPLE BACKDROP AGIN!

Sky, I always knew you were secretly a lesbo.

Suddenly unexpected mood swings in women.

We can't really be calling them "unexpected", though, can we?  I mean, we know they're going to happen.

Stop Watching Scrubs!!!

Fucking gizmos.

Elliot (and mother) calls it bajingo, not vajayjay.

So, in other words, your comment should have been directed at me. Oh snap. :oh_i_see:

I thought Oprah was the one that started that? The Soup host uses it as well.

Strange.  I read on the internet ages ago that was invented by the guy who wrote Grey's Anatomy.  I don't know what The Soup is but I'm trying to wrap my head around the fact that you watch Oprah.  Do you really?

Well, I'll guess your first problem in seeing it as work is you assume everyone pays rent in full, on time and keeps good house in the place they're renting.

My vajayjay is painin'.

Strazos not a big fan of Lex Luthor, I see.

Woman, why you got yo vajayjay on a panini?

People that say "ax" as in "Can I ax you something"
Its "aSk!"

Also I'd like to reiterate. Pull up your goddamn pants!!
Christ, whats wrong with kids nowadays?

On the way home for lunch, I saw three different kids walking down the street in 19º temps with snow....with no jackets. Two had on t-shirts, one just a light hoodie. Separate groups, not together. And they all had droopy draws, the girl was running across the street with her ass hanging out.

I laughed. We did stupid fashion when we were kids, but at least we wore fuckin' coats!

Surely most of the men on f13 wore anoraks. 

I wore t-shirts all the time when I was a kid, but then I grew up in San Francisco.   :grin:  I've only started wearing more layers during the winter now that I'm getting older and my blood has slowed.

One of my pet peeves, incidentally, has always been people saying "aren't you COLD?!?" to me when I'm very obviously not.  Homeostasis, bitch.  Look into it.

Hypothermia, bitch. Look into it.

A whowhat now?

Sam, I must've lived in SF during a warm spell, I didn't catch it being 19 degrees F.  :oh_i_see:

no, we just are anoraks :) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anorak_(slang))

Neither have I.   :drill:

Nah, I've never really watched Oprah. My sister was the one who told me that (she watches The Soup as well), I don't think she watches Oprah either.

Also, I never wear pants or heavy coats except when it is cold enough to snow. I just don't let it bother me, and I prefer cold to heat anyway. It makes me nauseous when I'm wearing heavy clothing and am outside, then go into a heated space.

Aww.  You are so dainty.  You should wear pants, though.  You know, to keep your fragile bits safe and warm.

You guys have a poor definition of cold  :oh_i_see:

My definition of cold is fine.  But if you lived in SF during the summer, you must surely have heard the fragile out-of-staters complaining about it being freezing cold when it was 60 degrees out.   Those people are everywhere and it drives me up a wall. Happily it sounds like you wouldn't have been one of the fragile ones.   :grin:

60 degrees isn't cold, it is simply lack of enough warm.  Said another way, 60 degrees in the summer absolutely sucks.

The weather from SF north along the coast into canadia is perfect imo. Though I do prefer the winters here in the NE.

I like to keep the inside of my house at around 65 degrees, unless it is summer.

I used to keep my place at 65 in the winter, but living in my ghetto apartment, which was tiny and cramped and filled with electronics, kinda changed that a bit. Now I like it at 72! I'm trying to re-learn wearing layers indoors in the winter, I'm not a big fan of wearing clothes around the house :)

Our heat is set to 65 in the winter, but we turn it off completely once it gets to the 60s outdoors. We only crank on the AC if it's >85 in the house.

After that first $400+ bill for a single month of heat, you learn to deal with it real quick though. Right?

(http://www.castrocopia.com/media/4/bender.jpg)

One month it spiked to $350, it's been about $250/mo. But yeah. I didn't pay for heat at the apartment.  :ye_gods:

About 68 in the winter and off when it gets even slightly warm.  It stays really warm upstairs so usually around this time of year, we turn it off at night, too.  I hate both forced heat and AC and would love to not use it at all.  Unfortunately, it's not possible where we live. 

Next year should be interesting, I'll have the wood stove up and running. Probably have the windows open in a blizzard.

I'm guessing the humidity doesn't normally hover around 90% in these areas.  The comfortable temperature range decreases dramatically when it does.

I dunno what weirds me out more; guys with pants down to their knees, or guys in skinny jeans. I'm gonna say both are wrong.

Skinny jeans only sort of work on tall, skinny dudes, I guess. It's worse though if you're fat, or hell, even normal sized, and trying to pull that shit off. That's not even that attractive on similarly sized women.

I like relaxing on the weekends in my slim jeans you bastards.

Now leather pants, those are a fashion travesty.

Hey, I got slim jeans too.. just not skinny Peter Pan jeans. And I'm a tall skinny bastard myself, so I could probably pull it off.. they're just not comfortable. Basic rule of thumb though - if you don't even slightly resemble Johnny Ramone, then stay away.

This guy looks sort of normal.

(http://fashionfeen.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/1471969301_efc0e81cac.jpg)

This guy needs to go back inside.

(http://www.definitivejux.net/files/u3/skinnyjeans.jpg)

[edit] On the other hand, the guy with the baggy jeans behind him looks like a damn fool too.

Those are brown tights, no way can they be denim.

Men in tights is... well, men in tights.

Fair point.


I meant Joey Ramone actually. Not Johnny. :oh_i_see:

That first guy looks like a hipster douchebag. Whereas the second guy might be wearing tight brown jeans, but at the same time he has a mustache that can't be stopped.

These are hipster douchebags.

(http://photos-d.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v200/47/29/503022924/n503022924_598571_2156.jpg)



What's even more stupid though (and I like Pharell btw) is getting skinny jeans in a long size and sagging them.

(http://stuffflypeoplelike.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/pharrell-williams_le_7e10beskinny.jpg)

He's got to be cool.  He's doing that "Live Long and Prosper" finger thingy.  That's still cool, right?

Pharell is fucking hot and Seeing Sounds is a great album.  That is all.

online pet peeve:
you're - your
they're - their

How did they get this mixed up? Was it the fault of the spell checker? It broke my reading focus when a sentence did not make sense when they put the wrong word in there.

 :ye_gods:

Can't forget getting then and than mixed, or could care less.

Ah, the easy ones. Don't forget effect and affect, it's so rare to see them used properly you just have to ignore it.

I've worn both skinny jeans and leather pants, but that was when I was skinny (6', 29" waist) and I had the official reason for wearing such things (as does Pharell).

For middle-aged guys...it's a dark straight leg or gtfo. Though I do wear a kinda baggy traditional light blue levi for working around the house. My pants of choice are wool tweed, though.

What's it like being 80? Is there always the scent of pennies in the air?

I should say, really, that the only other people that wear wool tweed are hipster douchebags, and I really don't think you're a hipster douchebag.

I've got a nice Harris Tweed jacket right now, and once I have some money again, I'll be going more in that direction. For reference, I'm talking three-piece suits like this:


I'd like to push it even more Edwardian. Nice thing about working in a library is that it doesn't look out of place.

And be careful with hipster douchebag talk, you have affliction attire  :why_so_serious:

My sister worked in a library for 15 years or something.  It didn't drive her to tweed!  Also - wool is itchy.  I hate wool.

Wait.  I like wool when it's cashmere sometimes, but only on my hands and feet.

I'm also balding and can't stand The Decemberists.

I want a cashmere cardigan.

Although wearing cardigans as of late probably makes me a hipster douchebag as well. *time for an avatar change*

I long to work in a library, but have some school cut out for me as far as that goes.

Just FYI, libraries are a tough gig. I wish I had my MLS, as library tech jobs are even tighter. Your best bet is to get into a college library, if you don't mind goddamned kids. Education is funded much better than public (which isn't really saying much).

No, I would prefer a college library. But you should take into account that I don't live in the boonies. :P There is one huge central public library here and then an additional 27 branches. That's just city library system alone. I always see job openings (just not qualified for them).

In-laws.

Replacing perfectly good I's with Y's.  For example: the soon to be rechristened 'SyFy' channel, which is apparently being run by retarded monkeys.

Please tell me you're jokyng.

The new e

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/16/business/media/16adcol.html?bl&ex=1237435200&en=e84038a56e5256a8&ei=5087%0A (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/16/business/media/16adcol.html?bl&ex=1237435200&en=e84038a56e5256a8&ei=5087%0A)

To prevent spamming how stupid I think this is:

while (!is_unconcious($user))
{
  echo "/headdesk";
}

Well, at least now they can safely get out of having to actually produce science fiction items for their network.

The old name never stopped them from scheduling 'pro' wrestling in the past.

Heh.

Great... Since the Stargates and BSG are over, are there any decent sci-fi shows set in space that aren't in reruns?

No, and that's the way the president of the network likes it.  She took over the channel and began systematically removing all Sci-Fi from the channel years ago. This is just the death throes. You should simply be grateful they green-lighted BSG in the first place.  Expect the channel name to change to Sy or something else in 3 years and all sci-fi reruns to be phased out before that.

Ed: You may point to "Caprica" as a continuing dedication to Science Fiction.  In counterpoint, I will predict that it will involve so little tech as to be nearly indistinguishable from any other Melodrama on network T.V.    It will be a 90210/ Desperate Housewives character-driven soap-opera and not a successor to BSG.  :why_so_serious:

The term "bromance" and it's derivatives are starting to annoy the hell out of me. I just hear the movie "I Love You, Man" called "bromantic" on NPR.   :angryfist:

I have never heard that term before and even if I never do again it has become a pet peeve. Seriously there's a fucking term (for what I imagine 'bromantic' refers to) already.

Was that term originally coined on Scrubs ?

Funny, I thought they should've called the movie Bromance right when I heard of it and been done with it. But "I Love You, Man" is a close second.

I love that our time warner just picked up Sigh Figh now that there is really no reason to watch it.

And it's no suprise that they're dwindling the amount of Seye Feye on the channel. Look at TLC (aka the freak show channel) or G4TV (aka cops/star trek channel) or any host of niche channels that no longer program to that niche.

Thinking on it, however, 'that niche' is increasingly not watching cable.  They torrent shows or watch them online at an increasing rate. (One fed by the loss of programming for them on cable) I guess I can see why conglomerates are beginning to drop channels for the demographic.

Things are rapidly trending toward getting TV on demand, a la carte, and cheap or free.  What we're seeing with these channels dying off is the harbinger of where cable TV as a whole is going to go as increasing numbers of people realize you can get all the same shows you pay $50/mo for on cable TV through other (even legal) means more conveniently and at a fraction of the price.

I hate people that wont directly ask for what they want. Even if its disgustingly apparent to everyone in the room. You want to borrow 50 bucks? Just fucking ask!

I also dislike the damn near universal "You know im not going to fuck you" as you stumble into your apartment with some random chick who is obviously going to fuck you at 3am.

When she does, tell her you don't like liars and push her out the front door holding her clothes in her arms.  :why_so_serious:

People who compress files twice.  :uhrr: Or compress files that are already in some encoded/compressed format (which is basically every media file out there). Worse yet, people who split already compressed files into multiple compressed files, making me go through some fucked up long ordeal to piece everything together. You know, like getting multiple .zips to piece together, only to find that I'm unzipping mutliple folders of .rar pieces.. which in turn means I have to make a seperate folder, go through each and every fucking one of those dozens of folders holding the rar pieces, dump all of those .rars in the new folder so they can be in same tree, and then unrar that.

Add to my list: People who complain about "free" things.

:oh_i_see:

You one of those silly double compressing mofos or what?  :oh_i_see: :awesome_for_real:


Yeah, free things.. I'll just find another version of that free thing, I guess. It's a pain in the ass, I'm telling you. But I see it in other ways (in legitimate fields). Some people feel the need to zip everything. Like one movie file. This does nothing. It is already compressed. And making me uncompress it is wasting five minutes of my time.  :oh_i_see:

Laptop hard disk died - hadn't backed up the MP3s, so its ripping time again, and I have some peeves:

People who upload nonsense to CDDB. Don't title the first disk as Album Title (Disk 1) and the second as Album Title (Disk 2). That's why there are a pair of fields for Disk Number in the ID tags. Don't add a suffix of [live] after the track names on live albums. Genesis is not Alternative/Punk and Spoon are not Electronica/Dance. If you don't know what categories may be appropriate, stick with Rock. Don't fill in the Composer field with something other than the artists credited on the album sleeve. Syd Barrett did not write Remember A Day. Stop putting the release date of the particular edition of CD that you rip as the year of the album.

Delicate flowers who take 10 years picking out the lettuce one leaf at a time at the salad bar.  SCOOP IT UP, PRINCESS!

People who, while in grocery stores, don't put that divider-bar at the end of their group of products. Are these people that distracted that they can't take two seconds to put in the divider? Or is it that they prefer me invading their personal space, so I can reach the divider, while they give me funny looks as if I"m the asshole for using the divider for its intended purpose?

Drivers that make left turns at T intersections, where cross traffic does not stop, and sit in the far right of the lane they are turning from so no one can get around them. It's more me being an impatient asshole by wanting to make that right turn while they wait, but since there's plenty of room if they didn't pull all the way to the right and stop five feet early. This only prevents myself, along with the other people waiting to turn right could get through, from not backing up the intersection.

People with a Big Mouth Billy Bass item, along with any previous or later implementations of this type of object. Most notably when these are in the office. It's great for a white elephant gift, but god damn it stops being jokingly humorous two days after the white elephant exchange and just becomes annoying. Put it in a drawer and use it next year.

Oh, the hell we go through for free porn.

Chewing gum and those that chew it with open mouths.

1: Buy some mints.
2: Suck the mints.
3: ? ? ?
4: Profit at not disgusting me.

It's loathesome. If they're not pulling repellant cow chewing cud but with less synapse activity faces, they're sloshing the mangled piece of inedible trash about in their mouth while talking to you, and then in all likelihood, spitting it out onto the pavement or sticking it underneath something when they realise all they're doing is openly masticating a lump of rubber that tastes of saliva and can't be bothered to locate a rubbish bin, rendering some unfortunate schmuck liable to tread in or discover it where it ought not to be.

I once saw an entire family on the London Underground - mum, dad, 2 kids, all gnashing away with their mouths open. It made me want to find the nearest dumped free newspaper (another peeve), roll it up and set about them as if they were naughty dogs.

I appreciate the need to have fresh breath but c'mon, at least eat something that won't pass through you in the same form it went in (should you accidentally swallow the stuff).

In fairness, they were an act called 'The Aristocrats', they'd just had an audition and they wanted to get the taste out of their mouths.

Play nice.

People that talk about the loss of life on 9/11 and what we should do to prevent another event but miss the fact that more than forty thousand people die every year in the US to traffic accidents.

There is still a fucking hole in the ground where the towers were. WHAT. THE. FUCK. Build something. Jesus.

People who tell horror stories and/or give unsolicited advice to pregnant ladies. And the next time someone randomly touches my belly I'm gonna touch them back. Hard.

You're pregnant?! :drillf:

Or is that why you don't like people touching you're belly? :grin:

Nah, my boobs are just growing at an alarming rate.  :drillf:

Grats!

Time-lapse photos.  Animated GIF.  Avatard.   :drillf:

But by the time they reach the epic proportions of your avatard I'll be hooked up to a milking machine.  :ye_gods:

Women who talk about thier boobs, then won't share pix.   :angryfist:

This thread looked like it was on a direct course to politics and VL saves the day with her pendulous bosoms!  :why_so_serious:


f13 bewbies (http://www.xtranormal.com/watch?e=20090420154735460)

Pendulous?! I ain't no Nat Geo yet! Also, the spanking Daffy makes everything you say pervvy.

Yeah, I've noticed that when I was saying how excited I was about Arcanum high-res.

It's  :awesome_for_real:

I would have gotten away with it, too, if it wasn't for you meddling kids.

Smokers who toss their cigarette butts on the ground when there's a trash can nearby. You want to smoke? I don't like it, but it's perfectly within your rights. I see a lot of incredibly courteous smokers who stand away or stand downwind of non-smokers. You guys rock. But when they're done, they just toss it on the ground and step on it. That's it? You really think you disposed of it properly? Walk your ass the 10 feet over to the garbage can, stab it out, and toss it in. For some reason, a lot of smokers don't see this as littering. Why not? I look around outside and it seems the vast majority of little on the streets and roads are cigarette butts.

Also the smokers who toss their cig butts out the window of their car as they're driving down the road. Great, not only are you littering, but you could potentially start a fire. Half of Texas has a burn ban in place because its so dry. Now you tossed some smoldering litter on the road. Keep the butts in your car until you get some place that you can dispose them.

This kinda annoys me too, as they make the rest of us smokers that do bother to dispose of our butts properly look bad.  Of course, the flip side of them are the obnoxious twats that insist on telling us that 'smoking is bad for you' or that it's a 'dirty habit' or whatever.  When I want your opinion on my vices, I'll ask for it.

Back when I was a smoker, I was always wary of putting cigarette butts into a garbage can.  I've seen that start a fire on more than one occasion...they can be strangely difficult to extinguish sometimes. 

Habitually tossing your cigarettes in a trash can is a good way to set them on fire.  Just because you stubbed them out doesn't mean they're *out* (every few months the giant planter I use for an ashtray out back burns off all of the old butts because I didn't get one quite completely out).  Admittedly, in the Air Force I "field dressed" my smokes (sprinkled out all of the tobacco and stuck the filter in my pocket), but that means walking around smelling like an ashtray.

Pet Peeves: People who claim that the smell of smoke that attaches to my clothes and breath qualifies as "second hand smoke".  People who believe that second-hand smoke from braving the gauntlet of the smoking area or sharing an elevator with someone just back from their smoking coventry is "more unhealthy than actually smoking" (the studies of secondhand smoke that showed that were of waitresses and other people who worked in bars breathing very smoky air 8+ hours a day for decades).  People who pretend to be allergic to tobacco smoke so they can be dickheads and get the ashtrays removed from the doorways.  People who talk about how horrible it is that smokers litter because the public ashtrays have been removed and stomping it out on the ground is the only safe option.  People who make it illegal to smoke in public areas, then illegal to smoke in your car, then jack the tobacco taxes up every time there's a budget shortfall.

For crying out fucking loud, people, I get it, you don't like smoking.  I'm willing to take reasonable steps to keep my smoking from being your problem, but I'm getting pretty damned annoyed at the endless parade of bullshit annoyances and petty discrimination.

--Dave

i consider myself a conscious person, try not to get in anyone's way with the smoking, don't haphazardly toss my cigs or smoke around non-smokers.. if i didn't cover anything else, too bad.

I just strip the cherry off before it goes into the trash.  Not sure where the discussion of flaming trash cans came from.

Like quitting?  :why_so_serious:

Bad, obvious trolling is bad, obvious trolling.

Overprotective chainsmoker is overprotective chainsmoker. Jab =/= trolling.

I don't mind smokers. I just want to be nowhere near them, and they're not allowed in my house. In return, I promise not to rub myself with feces and enter their houses.

Cancer + stench + fire hazard = WIN!

"Hey, mind if I smoke?"
"I dunno, mind if I fart?"
  - Steve Martin

It can be tricky to smoke otherwise.

While it's not directly second-hand smoke, it is still considered by medical professionals to be a form of tobacco toxin exposure (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/03/health/research/03smoke.html?em) ("third-hand" smoke). Having smoke residue on your skin or clothing is bad for babies. SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) is higher in babies who have parents who smoke, even if the parents only smoke outside. It's generally recommended that smokers change their clothes before holding babies or wear a smoking jacket that can be removed before coming indoors and holding the baby.

Here's another article from the BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7813124.stm) that discusses risks to infants and children from third-hand smoke.

I'm going to have to remember this the next time that someone asks me to babysit/have any contact with their kids.  Thanks!  :grin:

I listen to too much Ziggy Marley.

Take this as baseless speculation, because I can't be bothered to figure out where I'd heard this, but I am pretty sure that I heard this particular myth getting cracked when they later hypothesized that the mothers of those babies were also very likely smoking throughout their entire pregnancy, and that THAT was actually the main cause of SIDS.  I'm probably wrong, and yet it seems possible to me so I'll post it anyway.

The articles I looked at suggested that even babies whose mothers who quit smoking while they were pregnant were at risk if they lived with smokers. Smoke stinks for a reason (chemicals), and when a baby is snuggled into your hair and clothes they breathe all that crap in.

Smell is particles of the substance being smelled. If you smell shit, you have fecal matter entering your nostrils. So yes, it's third-hand smoke, with all the chemical goodness.

I guess I'm just gonna embrace my role and be a baby killer. :why_so_serious:

So I need to get kids if I want an excuse to buy a smoking jacket?

I think the moral of the thread is that the last time you went into the restroom at work?  Yep, you ate poop, motherfucker.

Don't be silly, have your closest of friends have kids. You not only get to pick up a nice smoking jacket, but you also look like a kind and considerate person.

So I've been living in the Central Florida area for a bit over four years now and in that time one particular radio station has been playing 80s music the entire time I've been living here.  Yet they still call themselves "The New" 101.5 The Point.  Hello, The Point.  It's been at least four years, YOU ARE NO LONGER NEW! 

Are they just too lazy to make a new promo?  Are they trying to use 'new' to mask the fact they're playing 20 year old music?  Are they measuring in geological time?  Are they just retarded?

What about movies that have been on DVD for at LEAST two years, still being on the New Releases shelf at the video store, thus costing an extra buck to rent and being rentable for two days less than a regular movie?

Oh, right. Netflix: Fuck a Video Store.

Are they a Clear Channel station?  Ours was also calling themselves "the New" for a decade after switching formats.  They might still be doing it.

It's run by a computer programmed from a thousand miles away, they have no idea what the station ID track actually says, and don't care.

--Dave

So a combination of lazy and retarded.

You're still listening to it, and they're making money from a station that has no payroll.  Who is lazy and retarded?

--Dave

The only time I listen to it is when I get sick of the membership drive on the public radio station I normally listen to.  So, a handful of hours a year.  But thanks for your input.

He flung poo!

Speaking of poo, why in the world can American public bathroom stall designers not figure out how to make the stall walls and door go all the way down to the floor?  I really don't need to be seeing my co-worker's shoes while I'm in there taking a squat.  It's even better when they have their ID badges attached to their belt...like I really want to know who I'm crapping next to.

Also, what the fuck are you people eating that makes all that smell/noise?  Jesus fucking christ!

Stalls don't go to the floor because:

1) You don't build walls because a wall between each stall takes up too much damn room and "space = $" so you go with partitions.
2) Floors aren't ever level, so putting partitions on them after they're finished is a solid bitch. 
3) The taller the partition, the more it costs.
4) Mopping the floor combined with people pissing all over the stalls means that metal will rust, and laminate will peel.

The smell/ noise is because of American's traditional high-beef low-fiber diet.

But mostly to allow the janitor to use water freely. And because it's cheaper.

When I said walls, I meant partitions.  In any event, at least in some parts of Europe, if not all, those suckers go all the way down.  There doesn't seem to be any major backlash over the exorbinant prices of partitions or any cleaning professionals going on strike because of the mopping difficulties.  I'll grant you that there is probably a propotional cost increase, but god damn it's nice.  

You're talking about a country where builders work to cut $25 off of a home they're going to sell at $400k for a 50% margin.   I can only imagine the cost and corner-cutting that goes into commercial buildings these days.

Bouncy floors are better for your knees.

I'm not interested in your logic and reason.  This is the Pet Peeves thread.  You might as well have just said "it's so we can check out each other's shoes".

This discussion has reminded me:  Greedy fucks.

Agreed.

And shitty modernists architects.

And the fact that houses are built by workers rather than craftsmen.

But I enjoy the dumbasses who buy McMansions built by workers with shitty materials barely up to code minimums for the same price as vintage houses built by craftsmen out of quality materials.

I rent one of those McMansions, and about the only thing it has going for it is the assloads of space.  But at least the walls in the toilet manage to make it all the way to the floor.

Clown Sloanes.

Ok, so everyone knows normal sloanes, right? Girls between the ages of 16 and 24 who all dress the same, get the same chemically straightened/dyed haircuts, talk the same (liek omg rilly innit) regardless of where they come from and use so much fake tan they take on a chernobyl-healthy orange glow at night...

Now add to that picturesque vision the art of applying makeup with a JCB or larger land-fill moving vehicle. I mean groups of girls who wear so much foundation they leave a psychic mudslide in their path, girls who apply blusher like blind old ladies only without the dignity, eyeshadow a peacock would curls its toes in embarassment at, lipliner that looks like they drew it on with a fucking sharpie...

It's becoming more prevalent in the UK right now (at least in the midlands) and I just want to yell WHY ARE YOU DOING THAT TO YOUR FACE AARGH at them.


It's steadily overtaking men wearing Capri pants as my new trendhate.

[EDIT=Ok so maybe Sloane (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloane_Ranger) is a more localised term than I thought it was - in any case if it helps, think of the entire cast of Gossip Girl - spoiled little rich girls; or in more recent cases, girls of lesser financial means who attempt to follow the true Sloane fashions by shopping at cheap-ass outlets and pretending daddy spoils them. They still all speak the same, though.]

I kind of don't think most people on f13 would really know what a sloane girl is, actually.  Why would they?  Has that phrase become common in the US?  I didn't even realise sloane girls were called that outside of London in which case, they probably wear all that crap on their faces to hide their gray pallour.  You can't live in London's nasty pollution without it taking it's toll, I guess.  The whole Sloane girl trend should have been laid to rest with Princess Diana, anyway.  It would have been fitting.  Two birds, one stone - you know.

I live in fulham and I didn't know what a Sloane girl was  :awesome_for_real:. Easy to guess though.

So Paris Hilton and her ilk?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloane_Ranger

Yes, I think Paris Hilton and her type would be a good match.  Righ says they call them "Celebutantes" here.  I don't know why he'd know that and not me.  I think I don't pay attention! 

I'm going to need visual references. The definition given here, is very broad.

Celebutards.

That sounds more righter.

You sure that's right? Sloane girls are from kinda upper class backgrounds. I don't know if there's a real sort of equivalent in American culture. Possibly something in NY?

Chemically straightened hair, usually sprayed into some unmoving monstrosity. Often dyed or bleached. Pashmina scarves. Burberry and Abercrombie & Fitch (knockoffs) for the chav-sloanes, tweed skirts or jackets and Gilets for the real-sloanes. Skinny-fit jeans. Ugg boots. OMGIAMACELEBRITAYRILLY massive fucking stupid sunglasses. Impossible bottle-orange suntan.

The trouble is there's subsections of Sloanes, including this new overly made-up 'clown' varient which I see everywhere now. Each have their own take on the look, but the real difference is whether or not you're money, darling.

Ugg boots. They were hideously ugly when I was in high school the first time they came around (early 90s) and they still are today. Seriously, you look dumb, stop wearing them.

Sloane girls!  On Sloane Street!  In Chelsea!

(http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/03_01/lebonXPOSURE0703_468x465.jpg)

(it's actually Yasmin Le Bon and her girlies)

We probably have an equivalent, some mix of Valley Girl and NJ coast Guido, but from New England.

Burberry is a little low end for the type of people you're talking about. Abercrombie is WAY too low end.

That's my point - the real sloanes don't wear it, but they have ranges which support the chav-sloanes' desperate need to emulate. And half of what they wear is even cheaper knock-off stuff.

It's why they're called Sloane Girls.  They buy their crap from shops on Sloane Street like Harvey Nichols and Jimmy Choo.  Well, they used to.  I don't know about the Sloane Girls who buy low end knock offs.  Maybe they're wannabe Sloane Girls, although I don't know why anyone would wannabe one because everyone else in the entire world find them irritating, except them.

The term Sloane tends to refer to the sort of folks typified by the East Hampton celebutante crowd in the US. Over-exposed non-celebrities from old money families who are the subject of stories in gossip magazines and shows simply because they're being twats with heaps of daddy's money. You can't really be a Sloane if you have to work for a living, and you certainly can't be a Sloane if your wealth hasn't been passed down over generations, or if you can't at least make a convincing case that it was.

This is one of my new ones. Also, I'm sure its been mentioned in this thread, but I really hate the 'overpowering overtalker' who will interrupt someone and totally overpower their words/ignore what the other person is saying to tell THEIR story. Usually starts with 2 people talking at the same time, the non-overpowering overtalker stopping what their saying and 'acting busy' like taking a drink of a glass or drag off a cig. Its awkward as fuck.

This thread is for listing pet peeves?

How about satellite television.

Boy, if only someone would invent a type of television that I can't watch when the weather is shitty.

People who get their food, try it, announce it tastes awful, then ask you to try it. People who look at a label on a bottle of wine and act like they know what the fuck they're talking about. Anytime John Madden speaks. People who bitch about government for hours on end yet don't vote. Fancy ketchup, fuck fancy, it's ketchup. Samwise.

I'll add more to this later.

EDIT: Also, people who can't, or refuse to, keep their god damn kids mannerly in a public place.

I'm going to take that as a compliment.   :why_so_serious:

Oh, also horror commercials.

If you watch TV after 10pm, anyway. Whatever current horror movie is out seems to have a 10 billion dollar advertising budget. Every five minutes and on every single channel.

It literally drives me nuts to the point that I boycott the movies and will absolutely refuse to go see them or rent them.

Not that horror movies are ever worth watching anyway.

So, you boycott a movie you wouldn't have gone to see anyway because there is advertising for it?  :uhrr:

Literally drives you nuts, eh.

He must mean that it loads a bunch of nuts into a truck and brings them to his house.  No other interpretation of that sentence makes sense.

My pet peeve is abuse of the word "literally".

Don't ever meet my family. We ALL do that. Although I think I'm getting better at not doing it to non-family members.

My biggest pet peeve in the world are people who type "should of" and "would of" and "could of." It's so wrong, it burns me like elven rope. Should HAVE or SHOULD'VE, people!

My pet peeve about the aging process: ear hair.

My pet peeve is jerkoffs who think picking apart sentences at 2am makes them cool in the eyes of others.

What ?

That's fairly specific.

You must have an easy life.

Think I just did this exercise on facebook a few days back…

1. People who let their dogs poop all over the neighborhood and don't clean up after…

2. People that talk loudly on their mobile phone in public…

3. People that talk loudly on their wireless headset in public…

4. Long lines.

5. Dirty bathrooms.

6. Mayonnaise.

You'd think so, but I use the internet.

Make up your mind!  Are people whos or are they thats?  Ok, so you've found my pet peeve.  I'm a who, not a that.  I'm sure I've done it myself.  What has annoyed me recently is that my local grocery store has discontinued it's delivery service which means I have to go into a store for more than fresh meat and produce!  SHOCK HORROR!!! 

Other than that very nearly everything everyone does irritates me.  Especially when they do it on the internet.  Maybe it's the internet that annoys me.

Also - I'm not sure I understand what mayonnaise does to annoy you.

It exists.

I can't speak for naum but for me it gets put on things when I'm not expecting it and don't want it! Nasty stuff.

I'm sick of warnings on everything.  Especially on television.  They should just print that shit on the bottom of the TV set and quit wasting my time.

Warning, that may cause the development of critical thinking skills.

Complete strangers throwing huge glass candle holders at you for absolutely no fucking reason as you walk by a cemetery with a friend.  Especially if the thrower is inside the cemetery behind the locked gate. 

On a related note, getting stitches in my face.   

That really does not sound like a peeve...

I dunno.  It'd piss me off.

I hope it doesn't happen too often.   :ye_gods:

People who talk non-fucking-stop about their hobby of choice (which will be replaced with something else in 2 months), even when it is abundantly clear that no one gives a shit.

Well, you could say that about a lot of trends. Like the whole urban rapper look thing.

A trend that is so way overdue to go away. I love white guys in FUBU, though. NOT FOR U.

And a peeve: this kid who has been coming into the library with his guitar (looking up stuff online). It's a temptation I don't need during the work day, I just want to grab it and play for an hour.

I had to google FUBU because I didn't know what it was.  Now I have yet another thing to try and unknow.  I'm running out of brain room.  This might be the reason old people get dementia. 

There was a Far Side cartoon that apparently has never been scanned, or at least not with the caption reproduced as HTML.  It's a classroom full of students, one of which has a body the same size as the others but a head the size of a fist.  The caption was "May I be excused sir?  My brain is full."

I mention this because it's the first time I googled for an image and didn't find something useful (at least once I filtered out the porn).  I didn't even find any porn.  The internet has failed me.

--Dave

The word "webinar".

Summer.

4 days of relentless sun, sneezing and fat black flies brainlessly bashing themselves against every possible surface. Fuck off already.

This is the only Unshelved on my board:

(http://www.qandj.info/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/20080105.gif)

Webinar and Web 2.ohgofuckyourself. Grr.

Four whole days?  We get eight months here. :-P

(Actually more, but you might think I'm exaggerating then.)

Commercials at the movie theater.

One of the top 3 reasons why I rarely see movies in a theater anymore.

Yeah, 4 days and I'm already cranky. Imagine what I'd be like after 8+ months.

The hayfever that has been circling around me trying to get in the odd kidney shot over the last 3 months has finally given up with the subtlety and uppercut me out of the ring. I feel like I landed on my nose.

My top 3:

1) People that talk through the entire movie.

2) People that eat like a cow chewing their cud.

3) Kids kicking my chair.

(close behind would be anything having to do with cell phones)

(http://ircamera.as.arizona.edu/NatSci102/images/brain_full.gif)

Search entered: "far side excused"

Parents who make their kids say please but then don't say it themselves. Example: mom and kid at coffee shop, mom makes kid say please when placing order, then says, "...and give me a nonfat latte." When I worked in coffee I used to say to the mom, "what do you saaaay?" They were never amused at being called on it.

;D

Lately, it's been the person on the bus who uses her commute for calls to family back east, so one day I get to hear her entire conversation with her mother, the next, to her grandmother, and the third, her retelling of her call to her grandmother to her mother.  Yes, it's an empty bus, no, I wasn't trying to listen. 

QF MOTHERFUCKING T.

Above 85 degrees? It's out.
Wind speed above 10mph? It's out.
Sprinkling rain? It's out.
Slight cloud cover? OH YOU BEST BELIEVE IT'S OUT!

There was a girl breaking up with her boyfriend in the closet organizer aisle of Lowe's last week. What the fuck is wrong with people? Big major blowout argument with lots of personal details I really didn't need to hear.

Women.

You should've just stood there, staring and eating popcorn.

No, would have needed one hand to shoot the video on the cell phone.  Sky, you blew your shot at vicarious YouTube fame.

--Dave

Or, you could aim your dish better. I'm not a fan of satellite tv (fuck you, Charlie) but both Dish and Direct only went out on me in the absolute worst storms.

And he could have tried to hit on her at the same time.

I don't know. We spent hours aiming our dish to get the best possible signal and it goes out constantly. Like, today it started flicking on and off. It was sunny, not a cloud in the fucking sky. That's not typical though.

A good hard rain? Well, just nevermind really.

How far north are you (or south, if you're Down Under), and is it Dish Network, Sky, or DirecTV?  Dish and Sky use a 15 inch dish that is barely big enough under ideal conditions once you get too far from the equator.  DirecTV uses a larger dish that is a bit more tolerant of interference and atmosphere.  You can generally get a larger dish if you pay for it, all the way up to an old-style 2 meter C-Band.

I've got DirecTV, which has an 18 inch dish (actually a bit bigger than that, oval about 18 by 24 but the rating is based on the shortest dimension), and I'm fairly far south, I've had one period of intermittent outage when a thunderstorm that was spinning off tornadoes was directly overhead (even the storm that destroyed Schild's car 15 miles north was no problem).  My aunt in Montana had the modern S-Band receiver installed in her 2-meter C-Band dish, she got a perfect signal when the dish was buried under a 12-15 foot snow drift.  Even a 1-meter C-Band would be overkill for anything remotely approaching normal conditions south of the Arctic Circle.

--Dave

EDIT: Also, the sun itself can be the problem if your signal is marginal otherwise and the sun is passing directly behind the satellite.  Again, nothing a larger dish wouldn't fix.

Nice restaurants that charge you 25 dollars for a 14 oz prime rib entree and bring you out a cut that is 3/4 fatty gristle. Send that shit right back for a proper cut every fucking time.

And probably get your food spit on as a result.  Doing anything that might even slightly have the chance of annoying the people preparing or serving my food is the one thing I try to avoid at all costs.

Velorath nailed it, their pet peeve is YOU.

Your only option is to eat your meal, leave all the gristle on the plate, tell the manager what you ordered, get the meal free, and never go back.

QFT.

Depends what kind of restaurant you're in, of course. But yeah, the complain/comp is the way to go. I couldn't eat a meal that I got after sending something back.

Visions of the Seinfeld episode where the chef was poking his head around the corner at George.

Of course, I've had pretty bad experiences with going both ways. $3 off my bill for a shit (and expensive) Mother's Day meal comes to mind. In events like this, announcing loudly that you'll never be back is usually the correct course of action.

I just don't go back, period.  Life's too short to spend going to bad restaurants.

This is probably the problem. We have directv, but the dish we a are using is one we got around 1998 or something insane like that (we were with a different company, then directv bought them out). We adjust it ever year or so, but it just hasn't been working. We're thinking about attaching it to the chimney near the top of the house, I'm thinking since the fireplace is on the bottom floor, heat wont be a big problem if it is near 20 feet away?

How do you like your steak cooked?

Chances are if you prefer your meat medium-well to well-done, you'll be getting foisted with the shitty cuts every time. It's a lot harder to mask a bad bit of meat when your customer likes it to moo when they stick a fork in it.

I'm not condoning the practise (and it's world-wide, chefs pretty much systematically consider patrons who have their meat overcooked - or 'murdered' to use chef vernacular - as having inferior palattes) but it's nigh impossible to get away from, so the lesson here really is to aquire the taste for rare meat.

Having said that, if you are a fan of rare/blue steak and you still get served garbage, go to another restaurant.

You're probably better off just buying a bigger dish, it's also possible that if your contract is old enough (more than 2 years since you changed anything) DirecTV will give you a free upgrade if you threaten to change providers or want to upgrade to an HDTV.  Alternatively you can buy something like this (http://cgi.ebay.com/33-ELLIPTICAL-HD-DTV-SATELLITE-DISH-5-LNB-BRACKET_W0QQitemZ250438430244QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item3a4f4b2e24&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65%3A12|66%3A2|39%3A1|72%3A1234|240%3A1307|301%3A1|293%3A1|294%3A50) or this, (http://cgi.ebay.com/33-SATELLITE-FTA-UNIVERSAL-DISH-SG2100-MOTOR-LNB_W0QQitemZ250436521607QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item3a4f2e0e87&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65%3A12|66%3A2|39%3A1|72%3A1234|240%3A1307|301%3A1|293%3A1|294%3A50) even if DirecTV doesn't want to move the receiver onto it, and you don't feel you have the skills (it's not particularly hard beside knowing where in the sky to find the satellite, if you have basic electronics knowledge you can probably do it from internet how-to's), the actual contractors that do their installs will probably be willing to do it "on the side" without charging you much.

If you've got 11-year-old hardware, it's no wonder you're having problems.  Even beyond dish size and aging of the equipment, the older stuff was never nearly as good at picking a signal out of interference.  If you can get them to do it, a replacement of everything from the dish to the set-top will probably take care of all your problems.  They've got an upgrade option at 1–888–355–7530, threatening (politely) to switch to a different provider if they won't give you modern equipment and a better dish will probably get some results.

--Dave

Thanks for the advice!

And, on an unrelated note (seriously), I am sick of unsolicited advice that does nothing but interrupt my momentum every 5 fucking minutes (I'm planting trees finally, and apparently I can't even shovel dirt the correct way).

...from your wife, or is that just random passers-by?  If the latter, then I find that strangely awesome.

I just found a new way for me to be an asshole this summer, since I also find that awesome if it was a stranger.


Pet peeve: After having a really shitty morning and being about 10 mins late, being informed what the start time for work is each day. It doesn't change, I'm well aware of my start time, I don't need to be informed of this after I inform and apologize to these type of people for my having a bad morning.

I would not eat in the restaurants some of you seem to frequent. Staff that would spit on your food is unacceptable! Of course, not being an asshole about things helps. As does tipping and sending compliments to the chef when you have a good meal.

If I get a bum steak at the places I eat at, I send it back. At our regular restaurant, the chef will come out an apologize, I talk to him almost every time we go there (and don't really get bum steaks, either). Heck, we discuss the seasonal menus. I know all the waitresses, too. One other place we go to has gotten very lazy in the kitchen, resting on its laurels, hiring some shitty staff. We don't really go there anymore except the occasional friday when my friend does jazz piano there.

To keep up with the topic, I guess a peeve is people who feel entitled and shit on service staff  :oh_i_see:

This is definitely not us, we used to be service staff, we tip well and like to get to know managers and kitchen staff.
We were mearly trying out a new nice place instead of our regular everyone knows us nice place. I wasnt worried about sending it back, also I always order rare, and that was part of the problem with them giving me a charcoal peice of gristly prime rib.

Hi, Sergoris. What's happening? We need to talk about your tardiness today.  Did you get that memo?  It's just that we're expecting everyone to come in at 9am all the time now. So if you could go ahead and try to remember to do that from now on, that'd be great. All right!

People who don't RSVP to evites, especially married/engaged people who should know better because they've experienced the stress of non-RSVP'ing guests themselves.

Just because you read the evite in your email doesn't mean you don't need to let the host know if you're coming! (Note: this is not a passive-aggressive jab at anyone here, I just have 65 "not yet replied"s out of 90-something invitations staring me in the face and not helping me plan how much food I need to make.) Just because you aren't sure you can come, or know that you can't, doesn't mean you don't have to RSVP!

Fuck I hate evites. Just put the details in the email and I'll reply to it, don't make me go to another website and fill out forms!

It takes 2 seconds! Plus you can easily ask guests if they want fish, burger or steak.

I'm not big on such sites, but evites are really handy for planning a party.  Well, when people bother to fill it in.

You can easily piss me off by having me go to some dumbass web site that isn't F13 or safari.oreilly.com.  How about I just give you a verbal next time we talk?  No?  Has to be on the evite site?  :rageguy:

Also: people not RSVPing is why I have so many leftover goody-bags from the boy's birthday party.

Trying to find solid black skate shoes that don't have huge fucking logos in bright colours all over them, that aren't classic vans, that come in my size. Seriously, why is this becoming so hard? I just want my god damned axels back.

RSVPs....our boy is having his 7th birthday party on Saturday, and invited the whole class (despite me trying to tell the wife it was a bad idea this year).  Out of something like 16 kids in the class, only 3 have RSVPed, and yesterday was supposed to be the last day.  The rest of you 13 families can die and go to fucking hell.

Not sending an RSVP for your ex-roomates 2nd cousin thrice removed's retirement party is one thing.  A 7 year-old's birthday is quite another, assholes.

I have never been evited to anything.  Not ever.  Everyone I know has a computer.  I wonder if they're secretly eviting each other to stuff.   

PS  I'm not upset about it so please don't start sending me pity evites.

I get evites through facebook but I also only log onto facebook about once a month in the last few months. I don't know if this makes me a bad person for not RSVPing parties that I don't even know I'm invited to because I haven't logged onto facebook...

If I was hosting an eparty, ewinetasting, eorgy, emovienight or esleepover you'd totally be evited!

Emerica (http://emericaskate.com/shoes/)

Outstanding quality and comfort, best skate shoes I've ever owned. Also I'm UK size 12 so you shouldn't have trouble getting them in your size (they do 5-14 US I think)

I don't really know what styles you're after but the for colour/subtlety you want, look at:

B.Herman 2 - black/black/grey
Fat Laced - black
Heath - black/dark grey
Hsu - black/black/grey
Mob - black/gum
Reynolds 3 - black
Reynolds Cruisers - black
Reynolds Lights - black/grey/back
Romero - black/black/gum


these (http://emericaskate.com/shoes/spring-2008/heritic-3/black-gum/) are what I currently wear, with black laces. Aren't being made currently but you should be able to find them pretty much anywhere if they float your boat, though they do have a largish white 'emerica' printed on the heel.

There's no form to fill out, just a box next to "yes", "no", or "maybe". Then you can click a different little box and type the number of guests you're bringing. You don't even have to leave a comment!

I've only been evited to one thing, and I responded promptly, so I guess my record is flawless as long as no one sends me a new one.


I'm a 15 :(. It seems to be the shoe size deadzone, because I can find quite a few different brands that go up to 14, stop, then have like a 17. Do you/anyone else reading this have a suggestion for an online retailer? Zappos was pretty good, but I still have to wait for them to email me when they have something in my size in, and amazon sucked.

Unnecessary extra steps!  :mob:

It probably doesn't help that my circle of friends uses evite for every imaginable stupid little thing in the world.

cry more argentina

Oof, I share your pain, I'm size 13 US and it's nigh on impossible to get nice shoes or boots in the UK in my size, let alone another size or more up from there. It took me 5 months to get a pair of biker boots ordered in and once I got them I pretty much wore the soles out in a year, cost me half as much again to have them resoled but it's that or another huge wait on an order.

I would but I didn't get an evita  :grin:

Oh dear.

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...that I didn't make first.

Clearly someone needs to be punished.

You'd think I would finally be numb to wankin' Daffy by now, but he still makes almost everything you post funnier, yet more disturbing.

THIS!

Who the fuck said they could do this? There should only be previews, and movies. I went to the movie theater to NOT see commercials, and not watch TV SHOWS, why would i want to see a commercial about a tv show? Dicks.

People who leave their cell phones at their desk instead of taking them with them should all be lined up and slapped. Drives me batshit nuts having to hear their "favorite" song or whatever on a loop because they couldn't be bothered to put the damn thing on a belt or in a pocket.

I haven't read through the entirety of this thread yet, so this may have been mentioned. It just now fucking happened and I thought to myself "Hey, f13 has that thread on pet peeves... this is mine... I'll go vent there..."

LIFE IS A HIGHWAY I WANT TO RIDE IT ALLLL NIIIIIGHT LOOONG

 :uhrr:

But what if they'd left it there while they went to the loo?

</unreasonably reasonable pedantry>

Then they should have turned it off.  Or brought it to the loo with them like every other asshole.

That reminds me:

People who talk on their cell phones while in the stall next to me.

Fuck, now that's in my head THANK YOU SO MUCH.

New pet peeve: Sky.

That is pretty creepy but I witnessed the printer repairman visiting our facility stroll into a stall and not miss a beat with his open laptop…

Well who HASN'T done that really!  :awesome_for_real:

This reminds me of another one.  People with 'funny noise' ring tones.  Meowing kittens, crying babies, yapping dogs,  whatever.  I've suffered through a few bars of some awful songs, but the animal noises make me get out of my seat to turn off their fucking cell phone.  No, I don't care that your kids couldn't get a hold of you for 3 hours because you were too stupid to look at it when you got back.

Guy behind me has Austin Powers saying "You got mail, baby, yeah".  EYESTAB

Alright, so I can't take my phone into the shitter and I can't leave it at my desk.  What's a guy to do?  Go up to the sixth floor where no one knows me (very well)?

Turn it off (or set to silent/novibrate) if you're not going to be able to answer it?   :ye_gods:

I'm not going to lie...when I see people doing this, I make an extra effort to, uh, how do I put this?  I make extra certain that the person on the other end of that phone call can hear that your disgusting ass is having a conversation while in the bathroom. 

I think the idea here is that it's okay to take your phone into the bathroom with you.  Just don't talk on it, fucking pigs!

Change the ringtone to "I Wanna Sex You Up" and take it to the shitter anyways.

I think it's OK to browse your Google Reader feeds or read F13… …but keep the phone (and camera!) turned off!

I work for an environmental firm, yet always have to remind (nay, beg) my coworkers to please use the recycling bins that we have in our lunchroom instead of just throwing things away. I even put out a bag to collect the stuff that can't go into the bins (e.g., plastic bags, wrappers, lids, etc). I even made a handy flyer that lists everything that can be recycled, and where to put it (bin vs. bag). People still throw stuff away.

Now, the new thing is for people to bring in the recyclables that they don't feel like dealing with at home, and throwing them all into the bag, unwashed. Even stuff that can just go into the bins at their own homes. I spent this morning washing someone else's moldy, rotten Toby's tofu spread out of a tub so it could be recycled.

I want to set up a hidden camera to find the culprit(s), and then save up the nasty food containers and pile them on their desk. It honestly affects my every morning and puts me in a sour mood right off the bat.  :x

Environmentalists that throw their cigarette butts out of car windows and/or on the ground.

Honestly, judging by how far you go with it...it sounds like they're having fun with you.  I mean, bringing in trash from HOME so that you'll recycle it for them?  Kinda funny.

(and no, I'm not excusing the behaviour)

Ads... on everything, all the time. I lived in Miami Beach for 4 years and even someplace as relaxing as the beach, there were usually 2-4 god damn prop planes flying with banner ads trailing. Can't even read the news without having some 15-30 sec commercial roll. I am just waiting for the day when the Emergency Management System goes off and they show a commercial with a scroll at the bottom telling people that important news is coming right after this word from our sponsors. I have come to terms that we live in a marketing society, but it is going to reach critical mass sometime really soon... like when we will have to get advertisements tattooed on in order to subsidize utility costs.

And I also can't stand all this new safety crap they come up with every year. Bike helmets? really? The only safety device I had growing up on my bike was brakes. Hell, that pseudo-foam stuff on old BMX bikes was considered bad ass safety gear. Car seats for kids under 4'9"? Air bags? How about stop making disposable cars and use some materials instead of cutting corners using less. I know, try using some of that money you are shoveling out for useless ads.

Damn this thread to hell... now I am bitter and stuck at work.

"Praise Gaia!" *flick*

Ya... hypocrisy... definitely a pet peeve.

Fuck a recycling. That's right. I said it. Having no children is so liberating, let's rape the shit out of the planet! I want a coal-fired car made out of heavy-gauge steel that belches massive plumes of black smoke whilst I twirl my mustaches that are slicked back with the fat from baby seals.

I'm mostly joking, I recycle because it's easy to do, not because I give a shit. I use a canvas bag at the market most of the time, too, because I hate all those plastic bags. I just discard all the pretentious bullshit of thinking you can save a planet.

01001001010101whateever: The human race will not advance very far until we can wean ourselves off capitalism.

I don't go that far - seriously, our company developed the Energy Star rating system for the USEPA, for fuck's sake. We're an environmental company. The stuff I collect on the side goes to a recycling center in my neighborhood, it's not like I'm asking people to put their lunch leftovers into an in-office worm bin or anything.

I think people are just lazy and don't give a shit, and won't do anything outside of their routine unless they are forced to.

What else is new? :P

Are you sure they can recycle them at home? Over here in California cities have different recycling policies depending on who is doing the pick up for them. E.g. at my last place for plastic containers only #1 & #2 could be recycled. At my current place they collect plastic containers #1 - 7. And they even collect polystyrene foam (aka Styrofoam)! (Have to put it in a separate clear plastic bag though).

Just call him Bar Code.

Also my latest Pet Peeve is people here who fucking use "@" in their replies. This isn't fucking Twitters fuckers. Using the fucking Quote button!

Yes, I'm sure. All waste haulers in Portland are assigned to specific zip codes and are required to pick up the same items. The City provides the recycling bins (a rolllcart) and an additional rollcart for yard debris. The two transfer stations are owned and run by Metro, our tri-county regional government. I wouldn't complain about it (or attempt to run the office recycling program) without having done at least a cursory amount of research!  :x

Add: The additional items like plastic lids, bags, wrappers, batteries, etc. I collect separately since they are not picked up by the City. I take these home with me and then pay a few bucks of my own money to recycle them at a special recycling facility. This is why I get so pissy - I'm doing the office a favor and helping us reduce our waste, and people don't give a shit. Why even bother working in this field if you don't give a shit about the environment? Go work for a fucking engineering firm.

You do have a point. There is a schism in the library world, the "professional" staff (the librarians and I, educated folks) and the "support" staff (maintenance, clerical). Few of the support folks actually read books regularly. I've never been able to figure that one out. You work in a library with an embarrassment of knowledge under your fingers every day and you never take advantage of it? I'd call it the book/magazine divide, but we voraciously devour periodicals, too.

Anyway, I've thought an interesting line of work would be improving garbage collection and storage technology, you would certainly never lack for work. Driving past an old dump that's just venting out those gasses makes me crazy, that's money dissipating into the air!

Waste Management is one of my clients, and their projects are some of the most interesting and environmentally-innovative that I've had the pleasure of working on. Two of their landfills let me design a native wildflower garden to provide habitat to pollinators, which will reduce their need to mow the retired/capped landfill cells (this was my idea, but they went for it, which is rare among clients). This will also create a segue from the developed parts of the landfill (e.g., roads, weigh station, etc.) to the wetland and forested (upland and riparian) habitat portions of their property where I do most of my work.

Waste is huge right now. Singapore is also doing some really cool shit with methane recapture and using the heat generated by burning landfill gas to power their plants.

Why is it that 90% of the populations brain shuts off when they get within 100 yards of CostCo?

THE FUCKING SAMPLE TABLE IS NOT A GATHERING AREA, GET YOUR FUCKING CARTS OUT OF THE MIDDLE OF THE ISLE WHILE YOU WANDER OFF AND QUIT WAITING 15 MINUTES WHILE BLOCKING THE ENTIRE LANE SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO WALK THE EXTRA 20 FEET! AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!

You could go to walmart where 99% of the population has never even turned their brains on.

It's very difficult for us to shop there, between the genetic mishaps, the general squalor of the customers, and the behaviour....it really lets you see the LCD of your community (and we see them every day using myspace at the library). I just watched Wall-E last night and the bit where humanity rides around in chairs was a little too real to be funny.

I hate costco.

I love costco, but yeah, the people waiting for samples drive me nuts. I've found just taking their carts and abandoning them in another part of the store makes up for it.

One of my fiancee's pet peeves is the fact that I often take other people's carts by mistake.

A peeve of mine is we don't have a costco. Also, park your cart away from the meat bunkers and browse. My fiancee still isn't used to how long I park the cart for, it's just easier to find a good parking spot and walk to the items.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v457/BlackFridayRuler/walmart.jpg)

 :awesome_for_real:

I try to never use a cart, and just see how awesome my biceps can look carrying a giant heavy basket of shit.

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I always have a cart in the grocery store but I only use it as a last line of defense.

All these "white pride" emails from my parents.  Maybe that's more than a peeve.

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All driving edition!

People talking on cellphones in their cars, especially when they're driving even more submoronically than the average driver around here while they do so. It's the same as watching someone down a fifth of Jack Daniels while driving.

Pre-emptive strike left-turning cars that try to make their turn the moment the light goes green across oncoming traffic. Someday I'm going to ram one of those fuckers.

Dumbshits that drive well below the speed of the traffic flow in the lefthand lane of a highway.

Assholes who weave compulsively in and out of lanes, usually getting to wherever they're going about 2 minutes  before someone only making necessary lane changes would have.

People who pass to the right on a three or more lane highway when the left-hand passing lane is perfectly clear.

Morons who get in a mandatory right or left-hand turn lane, ride it all the way to the top, suddenly notice it's a turn lane and just go ahead and force merge into the straight-ahead traffic flow in the middle of the intersection.

Crazy assholes who make a left turn on a four-lane road from the right-hand lane *with* traffic coming up behind them in both lanes. I see this at least once a week around here.

People who realize they've passed the address they were going to on a busy two-lane street who then slow down, stop and do a three-point (or more) turn to go back in the other direction, rather than wait for a side street where they can turn around. Again, I see it regularly on a road right near my house.

WC Fields agrees (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wc+fields+if+I+had+a+million&search_type=&aq=f).

I'll add in people who cut around the shoulder when a car is waiting to make a left-hand turn. Because if you're going in the opposite direction and making a left, you have the right-of-way (both cars making a left into a 4-way intersection have right of way unless there are multiple lanes). But in reality, you'll probably be t-boned by some asshole breaking the law. On a cell phone.

Last night coming back from the mountains we had someone try to pass on the left. I was coming off a single lane highway offramp, merging into a single lane. They went onto the offramp shoulder and almost slammed head-first into an oncoming car in the opposite lane on the road we were merging into. Then tailgated my 5mph-over ass until we got into a village, then I notice they're not in my mirrors. I look around, because he's driving like a fucking moron likely to kill someone and he's passing me by cutting across parking lots on the left-hand side of the road. Not in the road, he's in the actual parking lots. We turned off that road just then, luckily. Worst I've seen in a while.

People turning left do not have the right of way, they have to yield to oncoming traffic. Therefore, my pet peeve is assholes who do not pull into the intersection to wait to turn left, but hold up everybody behind them who want to go straight unimpeded.


They don't "suddenly notice", they are trying to cut in front by skipping ahead and then changing lanes. I do this sometimes if I'm 99% certain the person at the light is going to be too busy taking bong hits to hit the gas when the light turns green (in Portland, >75% of drivers).

Oh, yes, that adds two to the list.

Fuckwads who tailgate in the middle or right lane of a six (or more)-lane highway when the left passing lane is open, when you're driving at the average traffic flow speed or faster. There is nothing that makes me feel more like following someone to their destination and lighting them on fire than that kind of behavior. It's especially bad when it's not someone doing it with deliberate malice or aggression (e.g., when you look back, it's some giggling 19-year old psychotic and his filthy little buddies getting their jollies off: I take consolation when it's something like that knowing that they'll probably run off the roadway in a drunken stupor at 3am in the next two years). It's the worst when it's some sheep-like suburban woman in an giant SUV who doesn't even *know* she's tailgating you.

Unbelievable goatfuckers who cut through parking lots or gas stations at high speed as a way of making a right turn at an intersection where right-turning traffic can't go right on red. This is especially bad if the reason that traffic isn't going right on red is the heavy flow at the cross street, because the parking lot cheater is probably going to plow right on out into the heavy traffic. I saw a really bad accident at a local gas station the other day that was caused by precisely this kind of bullshit--the guy pulled into the gas station just before the intersection back-up, couldn't control his speed, and slammed right into a car that was filling up, which was then knocked into the pumps.

And speaking of parking lots, let's add a third: drivers who out of stupidity or mindless aggression feel compelled to drive through crowded parking lots at 35+ miles an hour. There's this one older guy I've spotted several times at the local supermarket who has come close to running over people on multiple occasions as he tears through the parking lot like he's at the Indy 500.

You're right and wrong.

People turning left don't have right of way over people going straight in the opposite direction (I'm talking simple two-lane roads, 4-way intersections, no turn lanes, etc). But if someone in the opposite direction is making a left, both cars have right-of-way to make their turns.

If you go around a left-turning car on the right side without a lane dedicated to that maneuver, it's illegal and arrogates the legal right-of-way for the person who would like to turn left in the opposite direction.

edit: Actually, you should check your state laws. Passing on a shoulder is allowed in some states. It's illegal in NY for most purposes.

Yes, this also pisses me off.


That's actually a different kind of driver. I feel like I can tell the difference between the skipper and the clueless idiot. The skipper pisses me off, but because they're somewhat aware of what they're doing, they at least tend to time their re-merge better. There's a light near us heading into a suburban CBD where a four-lane road narrows to two lanes and the right lane is a mandatory right at the intersection before the narrowing. It's not especially well-signed, but most of the locals know it well, and so folks tend to shift left pretty early in anticipation. Pretty much about half the time I approach it, there's going to be someone in the mandatory right who merges in the intersection. The skippers tend to gun ahead hard and slot into any gap between cars going straight. The clueless people kind of drift forward and suddenly notice that they're going to go straight into the sidewalk if they go straight and so they drift unpredictably left, more or less forgetting that there's another lane of traffic because the only thing they're paying attention to is the sudden imminence of collision-with-sidewalk.

I'm specifically thinking of cases at intersections where there is no left turn signal, so there is no right of way to the turner. If the person turning pulls into the intersection, the traffic behind him/her can continue to flow while the turner waits for a break in oncoming traffic. This way they can also sneak their turn in when the light changes to yellow (if there was no break in oncoming traffic). If the person is just turning onto a side street or something, I pass on the right in the bike lane (if there are no cyclists). Pretty much everyone does that here except pussies and grannies.

Yeah, laws are for pussies. An odd day when you and doucheomatic are on the same page.

My point is that the person turning does get right of way when someone going the other way wants to make a left. In you scenario, they have to sit in the intersection and wait for the yellow, meaning only one person gets to turn left for that cycle, and everyone going straight in either direction is breaking the law (in many states).

E.g., first left turner has right of way, not left turn on a two-lane road has right-of-way over person continuing through the intersection. I thought voodoolilly was talking about a four-lane road that doesn't have a left turn signal where a left-turner fails to get into the intersection so that if there is no break in oncoming traffic, at least one or two cars get through on the yellow. That drives me nuts, when someone doesn't do that in a four-lane road with no left turn signal.

I agree with VDL.  I have spent entire green lights sitting behind one motherfucker who spends the entire light behind the crosswalk with his left blinker on.  For bonus points, he will only scoot through the yellow light at the last possible second, ensuring that if there was anyone behind him who also wanted to turn left, they'll have to wait for the next green.

(edit) I'd like to add another peeve that's somewhat similar.  People standing slackjawed in front of vending/arcade/ticket machines.  Ticket machines especially.  I understand it's very hard to figure out how to put money in the slot and push the button, but maybe you could stand off to the side and watch someone else do it, or read the directions before stepping up to block access to the dozen people behind you who just need a goddamn ticket and will take three seconds at it and FUCK THERE'S A TRAIN COMING NOW I CAN HEAR IT JUST PUSH THE BUTTON GLAKJSLFJLSKDJFLKSDJFLKJSDF

With the turn lane thing peeve, I'll go the opposite of people turning out of the turn lanes and say those who use the straight forward traffic lane to jump ahead in line of the turn lane. Most notably during rush hour when the turn lanes are backed up about 50 cars, and the asshole feels it's fine if they just drive up and be 3rd or 4th in line saving them the time of having to wait for a few turn signal cycles. Fuck those people unless it's me of course

Yeah, this is what I meant. I, like Samwise, have spent many a green light just waiting behind the timid and stoned. I get ragey when it happens.


This is how I feel about most asshole driving moves. I drive aggressively, but flash my brights at others who do the same shit I do.

What, I never said I wasn't a hypocrite.  :awesome_for_real:

If I understand you right, up yours. It's not my problem if a city or township fails to accomodate heavy demand for a privileged left turn signal/left turn lane or with a staggered green that goes off first on one side of an intersection to let a few left turners through. It's real simple: the left turner does NOT have the right-of-way against oncoming traffic when the lights turn green if they both go green at the same time. It's simple. Get out into the intersection, wait for an opening or a yellow light. Don't decide to gun ahead of the people with a right-of-way, because then you're putting me and yourself at risk. Not bowing to right-of-way, no matter how impatient or frustrated you are with shitty traffic engineering or congestion, is a guaranteed ticket to collision eventually, because it puts me in a position of having to read your mind rather than make a default assumption that you and I understand the same rules.

Yeah, I'm not sure we're thinking the same thing here. I'm not talking about right of way and people who ignore it and endanger themselves and others. I'm talking about people who feel entitled to cut in line in the left turn lane because they don't want to be in the back of the line. To do that they use the other lanes inappropriately and skip a lot of the other cars that have waited, or are waiting, properly and force themselves into the left turn lane after now having skipped almost the whole line. This holds up traffic in other lanes as they now have to wait for these people to merge into the left turn lane and pisses off people already in the left turn lane who properly waited, who now really don't have much of a choice but to let these assholes in line.

Oh, yeah, that's what I was talking about with "skippers", to some extent. Not the same thing as preemptive strike left-turners--people who turn left ahead of oncoming traffic when the light changes, basically daring the oncoming cars to hit them.

"No, you, my employee on the UNIX team with the hands-on experience cannot write Version 1 of that script, I want the Architect who reports to someone else entirely to write it."

 :uhrr:

Windows that look like they have focus but do not.  Related: programmers that write this code.

The corollary being windows that keep giving themselves focus when you don't want to actively use them.

--

I'm pretty annoyed at the trend to '13 year old boy doodling on his notebook in class' style of art direction getting pushed in games lately.  GWAR shoulder pads, super-freak out of proportion arms/muscles, those retarded 3 foot wide and 12 foot long swords with jagged shark-tooth edges and hilts out of some post-modern torture fiends sculpture collection, etc...

Employers that always look for the 25 year old superman fluent in every programming language from Ada to Whitespace and familiar with every fleeting architecture paradigma of the last 15 years when all they need is someone who is good in C++ and doesn't fall over when confronted with an UML diagram.

Companies that think they are Google or Microsoft and have to develop according to their standards when their development team consists of ten people of whom five have never even heard about UML, patterns and unit tests.

Employers that look for people familiar with design patterns, model driven development paradigms and OOD/OOA experience that haven't even heard of agile development and still do big design upfront kind a jobs.

Employers that are perpetually waiting for that one prince charming developer that fits exactly to their obscure job profile and doesn't need any training at all, while dismissing other capable applicants.

If you haven't figured it out already I am currently looking for work ;-) which is as frustrating as ever regardless of the current economy.

Fifteen-character passwords.

9+ character passwords that contain at least 1 of each of the following Uppercase Letter, Lowercase Letter, Number, Symbol. No repeats. Must not contain any of the same characters as the last 12 passwords on file. Reuse of a character gives a general error, you cannot see your last 12 passwords. Password must be changed at no less than 2 weeks and no more than 1 month, or at ISP discretion (weekly for the first month). Loss of password requires a call to the helpdesk, remaining on hold for ages, and the issuance of a 1 use password.

After 2 months of that it was easier to change ISPs than check my webmail.

I use Montel Jordan lyrics when asked for a 15 character password (or more)

"ThisIsHowWeDoIt" and just keep going for more "ThisIsHowWeDoItOnFridayNight." Etc.

Edit: Fresh Prince theme works well also.

I just make a post-it.

Chords work pretty well.

CBmE7AmFG7C for instance (Yesterday verse).

I use Latin plant names or Japanese words spelled in Romaji.

I've done a lot of the latter.

Yes.  Even better is a text file on my computer so I can cut-paste that shit.  But even more better is using ssh keys.

Did you know most UNICES ignore anything past the eighth character?  I bet you did.


You will need a numeral and one of $, #, & or @.  Some things don't like $, * or !.  Also, these and one of the caps must be in the first eight positions or else older UNIX passwords will not be strong enough.

Well you can use # for sharps.

That would be much tougher to play, though.

Embrace the capo.

I've never used one. I'd probably just play it in a higher position or with chord fragments. I've been using chord fragments to practice playing different voicings for so long now that I almost never play full chords anymore.

$7.50 for a large popcorn at the local cinema, $6.50 for a large soda.   :ye_gods:

A short trip to a Big Box store puts that at, uh, 3 gallons of soda and approximately 15 lbs of bulk popcorn kernels (just under a third of a 50 lb bag) or just about enough popcorn to fill the theater.

Concession prices are crazy, but on the bright side - I don't think movie ticket prices have gone up in any significant way for more than 20 years.  Given a choice, I'd prefer the high concession prices, which you could always simply avoid.

There was a discussion somewhere about pushing movie theaters to reduce the price of concession stand food in order to increase profits, but I can not see it anywhere at the moment.

On the subject of ticket prices, average US figure with inflation accounted for:

2008    $7.18
2007    $6.88
2006    $6.55
2005    $6.41
2004    $6.21
2003    $6.03
2002    $5.81
2001    $5.66
2000    $5.39
1999    $5.08
1998    $4.69
1997    $4.59
1996    $4.42
1995    $4.35
1994    $4.18
1993    $4.14
1992    $4.15
1991    $4.21
1990    $4.23
1989    $3.97
1988    $4.11

Last movie I went to see was 13.50 for adults and 7.50 for children, meh.

Speed limits that no one cares about except me.  :uhrr:

This is why I very rarely see movies in the theater anymore.  Well, ticket & concession prices plus them showing fucking commercials before the movie starts.  But go ahead and keep blaming the 'pirates', movie industry.

Bring a backpack with sodas and other store bought goodies :)

Just don't bring in stuff with bags that crinkle and crunch or the person behind you will stab you in the head with their salad fork.  Seriously.  I would.   If I ever went to the movies, that is.  Which I don't because they mostly stink of people's nasty pits and Taco Bell.

Hah hah, reminds me of the time we went to an artsy fartsy Seattle Film festival movie with a 6 pack. Empty beer cans clattering down the rows of seats during the scenes overfraught with ennui. The audience was too shocked to object to our barbarism..

I see one or two movies a year in a theater, due to price and people.  Of course if I watch ten a year total even at home I'm competing for a personal record.

We will usually see the matinee for the discount, unless it's a movie that parents might take their kids to see. It's worth going late and spending a few extra bucks to not hear kids spazzing out all over the place.

I don't know. Even with the escalating prices of cinema tickets I still go, on average, twice a month. There's very rarely nothing on that I'd want to see, especially now my local independant has been getting in old reels - seeing the original Italian Job and Alien on the big screen for the first time in my life was a sweet revelation, and one I'd be happy to pay for to see more older films.

Tonight I'm going to go see Moon, in the big chain cinema's 'Director's Lounge' which means there'll be a trumped up price for slightly comfier seats and possibly a bar with real drinks in glasses. I try to treat cinema-going as an experience overall - not every movie I see is going to be amazing - not every movie I see is going to end up in a plastic box on my shelf for later perusal. But I do believe whole-heartedly in the big screen. I just wish I didn't have to pay so damn much for it.

Moon was a fantastic film. Sauced's new avatar references it.  :awesome_for_real:

I would go to the movies more often if it wasn't that at home I have a more comfy chair, better balanced sound, a decent screen and none of those annoying 'people' that crowd the theater making noise. Plus, sticky floors, ugh. And paying $10.50 for a ticket makes bluray seem reasonable. It did amuse me to see that a soda was $4.75, popcorn was $5.75, but a combo of Soda and Popcorn was 'only' $11.

At this point I only go see a movie or two each year, things that seem to need a big screen (Watchmen and HP so far this year)

This blog talks about the theater prices and concessions (http://www.themovieblog.com/2007/10/economics-of-the-movie-theater-where-the-money-goes-and-why-it-costs-us-so-much).  Essentially, the movie theater isn't making any money off the box office (sometimes literally, the first week of Attack of the Clones went 100% to the studio).  Concessions is their entire profit margin.

--Dave

The SWTOR thread.

I guess I've become so jaded that I am actually jaded about people being jaded.

Once when I was oh so very young, I hiked (it's an easy one) to the end bit of the Sandia Man Cave and found two beer cans.    :uhrr:

See as many movies as you can right now.  I can't work up any movie theatre hate, I want to go so bad.

Indeed it was. Incidentally, the ticket cost twice that of a ticket to any film at my Indy cinema (Director's Lounge ticket: $20), but indeed there was a real bar (long island iced tea: $8) - they even brought you your drinks in the theatre - and the chairs were excellent. Audio/Visuals were also excellent, though for the most part I've never had cause to complain about that at my local multiplex, they run a very tight ship. So to speak.

Now my beleaguered soul needs to ruminate on the film.

We're doing as much of EVERYTHING as we can right now. Sleeping, eating out, seeing movies, :drillf: :drill:, everything.

We don't need to hear about your young experiences with a sandy man cave.

On movies: I'd rather watch in my living room. Lack of youngtards texting/giggling, cold beer, pause, comfy sofa, smells nice. I don't even understand going to the movie theater if you have a decent a/v setup.

This is true, but sometimes you just wanna see a new movie. On another note, rent The Room (http://www.theroommovie.com/). Now. Believe the hype.

Yeah, I only want to go to the movies for something that I just don't want to wait for, or to occasionally take the kids.  They love that 7 dollar popcorn.

Eh, the fiancee would agree with you. I have an amazing reserve of patience, apparently.

I'm still waiting to get Anno 1701 Gold :)

People who are not:

1) Crippled
2) Obscenely overweight
3) Dragging along multiple children

and use the elevator to go up one story.

You are fucking lazy.

I was looking at a house the other day, it had an elevator to go from the first floor to the second floor.

Previous owners were not disabled, go figure.

If they took the stairs once in awhile they might not be obscenely overweight. This is one of mine, too.

Goddamn right.  At the old office people gave me funny looks for taking the stairs to up two stories.  I often bit my tongue about how, while I'm not slender, I was still half their size.

People who go to a film and then sit right next to a stranger (me!) and eat food with their mouth open throughout the whole thing. Noisily.

People who sit in the same isle or right behind you in an empty or nearly empty theater. Creeps me the fuck out, man.

American television.

Not so much the programs which are generally either as good or as terrible as anywhere else in the world but the fact that there is a break for adverts every five minutes. Makes it completely unwatchable. Also the comercialisation isn't limited to the breaks, there'll be gratuitous shots of sponsor logos in the show itself and anything that can have a brand attached to it does.

People who whine about a hundred quid a year for commecial free TV should be made to watch DirecTV for an afternoon.

I love how in the last 15 minutes of an hour long show, 10 minutes will be commercial.

Also fuck the prudes who bleep out even the mildest curse words or pixellate vulgar gestures even when it's late at night. Are viewers really going to be traumatised by hearing the word 'ass' or seeing an extended finger?

Yes. Otherwise our fragile little minds might get warped.

People who buy cars and make them imitate the way cop cars look.

That's why the Puritans left Europe and founded this country.  We even have a holiday to celebrate this.

Yes, at work I will have someone accompany me to my old office on the third floor. I'll take the turn for the stairs and they take the other, I ask where they're going. They say 'the elevator' and I give them a look. Most of the time they take the stairs with me. I'm a bit stair crazy, though, I fucking love stairs, which is why I love climbing mountains. The house I grew up in had very small steep stairs to my room, almost a ladder with a rise of over a foot to a 4" tread. So most normal stairs I take 2-3 at a time and jog up.

So my stairs things goes beyond elevators to escalators. It's my belief that escalators are there to hasten your ascent/descent. I use them like stairs. My peeve is people who think it's time to stand and let technology move your lazy ass. I'm pretty much over this one, since I'm in the vast minority.

You could also apply Stormy's concept to those fucking carts in stores now. I understand if a truly handicapped person is using one, but it's always these obese fuckers who really need the exercise. I had to navigate around a couple of them in Walmart (having to shop at walmart for certain items is another pet peeve), both people in the motor carts, pushing a shopping cart with their feet.

On TV ads: Odin bless the DVR. Though the in-show ads do bug the fuck out of me. I don't want to see someone from another show come sauntering onto my tv and fuck around for a while. Especially if it gets in the way of what I'm watching, it seems the "accceptable" size for this atrocity is getting bigger every month.

But then how would you know that even telepaths enjoy a good cup of starbucks coffe, or that vampires love wii golf?

(http://www.morninpaper.com/wp-content/plugins/image-shadow/cache/783425dfaeadcf0031baba9ccba288cb.jpg)

Overly validated ugly chicks.

Actually, I don't know if that's a pet peeve about their internet outlets. Or I'm peeved about the jerks who validate them. No asshole, she's not hot. Now look what ya done.

I don't know what that means.   :ye_gods:

Fat Princesses.

I was thinking an example would the US Volleyball team of Walsh/May-Treanor and how many people drool over them making them seem like a 10 on a rating scale (and to quote Daniel Tosh with the following) "when they're clearly 6's at best."

Fat princesses definitely work better though  :uhrr:

You sir, are crazy.

To be fair, a lot of fat chicks were probably 10s when they were 14 or 15. Peaking early happens.

EBNF notation.

Conversely, police departments that take cop cars and make them imitate the way normal cars look.

Fortunately, both types are somewhat bad at both actions.

I like escalators because I can people watch while still moving towards my destination.

Unless I'm going up a great many stories though, I prefer to take the stairs.

Henry Rollins has a spoken word bit about moving sidewalks you'd love, Sky.

I'll double-yes on the goddamn carts, and add giving handicapped stickers to the obese.  My dad was legitimately handicapped due to bone loss and previous injuries but couldn't park in the spots at certain places (like walmart) anymore because there were always fat fucks using them. 

Furthermore, folks using "grandmas" sticker to park in handicapped spots need to be shot, not fined.

1.  "Guests" that suck
2.  People that throw their cigarettes out their car window-  really?  Are you that lazy?
3.  Texans.


That is all for now.

When I broke my foot, I didn't bother getting a temp tag because I wasn't expecting to be driving.  Made a quick trip to CVS for something.  I parked close but still had to walk through the lot.

A giant SUV comes racing into the handicap spot, nearly runs me over, and the asshole hops out and walks in just fine as it obviously wasn't his tag.  If I could have hobbled faster I would have beat him with my cane.

People using the word necro for a thread or post a week or two old. You're a shitty necromancer.

Bringing up something we were discussing eight months ago is a necro, quoting something a week old is not.

Visual Studio

Douchebags and douchebag culture.  Really, enough with the Ed Hardy already.

edit:  New annoyance.  People celebrating sub point releases.  Congrats on getting that table formatting squared away.

The handicapped thing is high on my list. It's high on everyone's list, I think. Which is in and of itself kind of interesting. I mean, we have high degrees of social consensus on the following things:

1) People who are seriously disabled either due to chronic condition or short-term injury should be able to park close to their destination.
2) People who are basically capable of walking normally without disabling pain should not have a guarantee of parking close to their destination, even if walking is more strenuous or stressful for them than many people. (e.g., the obese, the elderly, people with planar fascitis, etc.)
3) People who use someone else's handicapped sticker without themselves being disabled are total scum, and worthy targets of substantial criminal and financial penalties if they're caught. 


And yet, that consensus can't prevent pretty systematic abuse of the system. There was an able-bodied administrator here who I spotted using handicapped parking on a regular basis, using what I think was her mother's sticker. But reporting her would have stirred up shit: her husband is a colleague and I like him quite a bit; she's well-known as both an unholy bitch and extremely vengeful; etc. So the best I or anyone else could manage was a plausibly-deniable dirty look and a few gossipy remarks in safe company. The big city near me has had several scandals involving routine use of handicapped parking by city officials and bureaucrats: everyone is shocked, shocked when such stories break, but it's always clear that the cops are being told to look the other way until pesky journalists hang around with cameras for a week or two and catch officials in the act (again).

Eh, I don't like able-bodied relatively young people who park close to the door anyway. Half the time it takes them so long to find a spot or sit and wait for someone to pull out that they could have just walked. I usually park at the back of a lot, my favorite spot is closed on two sides by a grass median. I enjoy the walk. It's a standing line for my fiancee to point out there may be a spot open across the street, or possibly in the next city over.

I love watching people and parking lots are a great observational area. People do all kinds of silly and selfish shit. I used to get pissed, now I get a good chuckle and free entertainment.

I also put the cart away properly and usually end up straightening the carts in the corral. I always try to put myself in the shoes of the person who is going to have to deal with the results of my behaviour, I like to try and make things easier for guys like cart pushers. Life is already tough enough if you're stuck pushing carts.

I don't care how far away I am as long as I don't have to park in the sun. I will park on the opposite side of the lot to find shade. (I don't mind walking in sun but I hate a hot car.)

I've been in Colorado Springs for the past three weeks and it's a city of strip malls. It's amazing to me to watch someone park at one end of the strip mall to visit one shop, get back in the car park up in front of a different shop no more than 50 yards away then repeat all down the line despite the fact that the total distance is less than 200 yards from one end to the other. By the time you've got in the car (or more often, the giant truck), started it, pulled out, navigated the fleets of other people looking for a spot and then parked up again, you could have walked that distance, got your shopping and be queuing at the till already.

That would not be a peeve for me, merely a source of moderate humour.  If the driver was obese or, even better, morbidly obese I would gladly laugh out loud.

stuff | grep pattern | awk '{print$2}'

People who refer to OSX by the cat name instead of the number iteration.

I can remember details about 10.3 vs 10.5, but not the difference between Leopard and Tiger, ffs. Not just Trippy (though he prompted the idea), my supervisor is an old mac user and does the same thing, so I deal with this quite a bit. I'm also happy windows went to a number rather than Windows Bubblefart or whatever.

Also, the lack of Firefox and Flash support for 10.3 and the lack of funds to upgrade beyond it.

Blame Apple for that :awesome_for_real: (that's how they refer to Mac OS X versions in their "non fine print" literature).

You could start billing people by the cycle like they used to back in the day.  You'll either get rich or they'll learn to be efficient.

Oh, I wish... well I might get my wish if the IT division is spun off into its own company.  Besides, I left that line as I found it because I didn't want to push variables into the awk program and am therefore a hypocrite.  I'll append "in trivial cases".  Whew!

#1 slow drivers in the fast lane.
#2 people who lump all texans together into one group!

The escalator is not a fucking ride! I have a god damn broken foot and I am getting pissed off at you. You are a 18-20somthing university student, you look fit, the escalator is narrow enough so that people cannot overtake you, blah blah blah, fucking move it!

Also: People who walk down the street with their friends, fanning out to cover the entire pavement (sidewalk) and walking slowly. Fuck you! I don't really want to dawdle behind you and listen to your inane conversations, speed up or move the fuck out of the way.

We have an entire thread for this:

http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=17439.0

That thread went dusecrazy after a while, though. Plus I have no thoughts on the topic of driving.

If I didn't hate shopping and malls so much, I could dawdle all day on escalators. 

Wait, wait.. What does Ed Hardy have to do with douchebags? And umm.. Douchebag is a loaded term. Everyone is a potential douchebag.  :grin:

As long as I can get past you I don't care, I do that myself sometimes too. Just stick to the left! It's the people who block the whole thing that peeve me. Which happens a lot at uni, because the escalators are single file there...

My pet peeve is people who have escalators at their fancy universities and complain about how narrow they are.

When I was at university it were upstairs both ways.

If you need an escalator to go down, you have bigger problems than a few stairs.

I'll bet there's a correlation between the invention of the escalator and the rise of obesity in this country.


To be fair, most Texans (not all, most) seem to share two traits:  1) the belief that Texas is fan-fucking-tastic, and 2) firearm ownership.

Yes, that's probably blatantly inaccurate.  But it doesn't seem like it.

I've transitioned from firearm to bokken. Texas is fantastic... really, there are only two states worth a damn. Texas and Hawaii. I'm from both.  :awesome_for_real:

Stick to the left? No wonder you are having problems -- you are trying to pass on the right!

That's what you get in foreign climes.

I know it's been said before but people who try and cut the line by turning left across traffic on the light change.

80% of the time around here they end up holding up traffic IN BOTH LANES while waiting for the pedestrians to cross.

During rush hours, on some streets there is no parking allowed in the right lanes (opening up an extra lane when it's needed). There are clear signs, 2 or so per block, that say "no parking 7-9am on weekdays" or "no parking 4-6pm weekdays". I think that if people park in that lane during rush hour (making a clusterfuck while people have to try to move over all of a sudden) then you should be allowed to lob a brick through their windshield.

Unfortunately its not.  Texas is alright a lot of nuts..... that own firearms. 

But, not all of us do.....  I dont even have a cow, a cowboy hat or a pickup so I'm revolutionary.

Peopel who wear too much makeup, especially too much foundation!

This, and women who apply makeup in public. Sort of defeats the purpose, imo.

Some of us live in Austin.

I was going to make an exception for Austin, until I realized that people in Austin all think it's fan-fucking-tastic.  And many of them may also own firearms.

If you don't think where you live is fan-fucking-tastic, why the fuck are you living there?

I would be uncomfortable on a bus with people who get so close to my face to see how much make up I have on!   :ye_gods:

Not that I have ever been on a bus.  Or worn foundation.  But still, if I had or did I would be nervous.

Socio-economic stratification?

Pretty much, yeah.  Oh, and family.  Family's a big one.

Pet peeve... When latent homosexuality and homophobia have reached such a level, that even I'm pressured to worry about what sounds "gay" or not. :why_so_serious: It's like middle school with some dudes.

Pet peeve of the day: co-workers who insist on keeping windows open when it's 38'C outside, no wind, and high humidity (note: the office has AC), because they "need to hear the sounds of life from the park below" in order to work, leading to the temperature rising by 5-10 degrees when compared to the other rooms.

/sadf

Pet peeve of the day. It's 30º outside and the humidity is spiking due to the massive thunderstorms we're getting daily. Because of all the computers, the temperature inside is 5º above that but we can't have the windows open (no AC, building is too old) because the receptionist gets cold.

And to have this power, the receptionist is banging who exactly?

Today's peeve: receptionists who bang everyone but me.

Apparently, all you need to do is obtain some sort of power for the receptionist to covet. 

So my peeve will be lack of power.  Also, lack of hot receptionist.

She's still a receptionist. Bang the people she isn't banging, those are the ones who might promote you.

Wives who think I banged receptionists.

People looking over my shoulder or those that actually crane their neck to peek at my computer screen.   Far more annoying than the already annoying reading some printed media over my shoulder.

One of my officemates a few years back actually set up his PC with a direct sight line to my screen.  Thank god he got transferred.

"Hey, what's that?"  :angryfist: :vv: :cthulu: :mob:

Rasix needs a FUCK YOU ASSHOLE screen saver!

And a NOSY PEOPLE DIE MYSTERIOUSLY desktop.

How is that a peeve?

This thread has become too long and people forget what it's about.  Soon it'll just be another Useless Conversation.  I usually go there to complain, anyway. 

The fact that Signe complains so much in the Useless Conversation thread.

I complain so much less than the men here!  You should be on my side, Cyrrex!

I AM on your side, but you DO remember now that I am actually a man, yes?  Don't make me send more naked pictures to you!

Bumper sticker reading: My Labrador Retriever Is Smarter Than Your Honor Student

Firstly, I'd say this is unlikely and if so why are you and your dog not on TV?
Secondly, labs are among the more idiotic of dogs.

I saw a bumper sticker yesterday that said something to the effect of "my child is a respectful student at XYZ middle school".  I mean, wtf?  Respectful?  Nice going, I guess.  Way to achieve.

I think I am going to get one fashioned that says "My son occasionally listens to his teacher at ABC elementary". 

I wouldn't put that on my bumper and I'd let my boy know why.  As if.  :oh_i_see:

My Chocolate Lab is BAD ASS!!! She can jump out into our pond about 12 feet in chasing a ball or stick and has a knack for catching 1' long bullfrogs in mid jump...

Hrrrm... Jumping into lake for stick or ball and putting a bullfrog in your mouth... damn I guess she is idiotic  :oh_i_see:

I'm getting tired of people commenting on my pregnancy (the first few times someone asked me "when are you due?" I answered "I'm a biologist" because I thought they were asking me "what do you do?"). My friends ask permission before they touch my belly but random neighbors and grocery store clerks feel entitled to just reach on out and rub me like I'm a fucking wooden Buddha.
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Just smack them, being pregnant is like a get-out-of-jail-free card.  Or growth.

Or just pretend like it really turns you on and start writhing and moaning.  That'll get (some of) them to stop.

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Strangers touched or tried to touch my wife's stomach when she was pregnant. It creeped us the fuck out. But it's not *as* creepy as the legions of old ladies who feel that as strangers they have a perfect right to: touch your baby, comment on your baby, comment on whether or not your baby looks like you, and so on.

Equally nasty. Going to visit my mother-in-law in her apartment building, which is rent-controlled for people over 60 living on a fixed income, so the building is stuffed to the gills with old geezers who mostly sit near the entrance to the building for the entire day staring with glum hostility at anyone they don't immediately recognize. Anyone, that is, except a little kid who is a grandchild of one of the residents. What they do at that point is grab the kid whenever she/he gets close enough and stuff a couple of dollars into his/her hand. I mean, like half the building does that. If I was working with one of the residents and I had a midget friend who was willing to dress appropriately, we could probably clear $100.00 every couple of weeks just by prancing around a bit. But it is completely  :pedobear: behavior, and it makes my flesh crawl. "Look, there's a kid, give her some money!" My eight-year old was not at all grooving on these weird old ladies coming up to her, grabbing her hand and stuffing three or four filthy wadded dollars in her hand and telling her how beautiful she is, and neither was I. I felt like I ought to hire a couple of honest adult strippers so that the old folks can put their leprous sweaty dollars in a thong or other more appropriate location.

Yeah.  Smack them.  What are they going to do?  They assaulted you first!  Also, this is America.  Sue them for something!

Sooner or later, a Nazi death panel will get them, but I take little comfort in that.

We can only hope.

Accounting Seminars about Audit and Attestation.

People who think there is a technological solution to every problem.

I'm reminded of Arthur C. Clarke and the fact that half the people in the world are of below-average intelligence.

The higher you are on the scale, the more people are on the other side.

To add to my last post, people who then find what they think is a great solution despite massive cost (during budgetary cuts) and complete inconvenience of both staff and patrons. But hey, it solves the one small problem, fuck the three big problems it creates!

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Also, people with a complete inability to triage. And people who fabricate deadlines for now good reason and then stress about them.

Some days I just want to dig motherfucking ditches.