Your Biggest Pet Peeves

[Raguel]

Creationists who babble about chemistry, like this RFJE retard. 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.

[apocrypha]

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

[Signe]

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

Oh yes. 

[Lantyssa]

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.

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.

[stray]

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

Oh yes. 

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


Except Righ, of course!

[Xerapis]

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

 

[Merusk]

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.

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.

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.

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."

 

[Sky]

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.

[Salamok]

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.

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)

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".

[Broughden]

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.

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

[Sky]

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.

[Broughden]

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.



or

B) American Foursquare



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

[Sky]

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.

[Merusk]

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.

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. 

[Broughden]

Eh, I like those, too. I guess it's more about the architectural details in older styles.

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!

[Signe]

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:



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?

[Sky]

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!

[Engels]

stuff

u r so ikea 

[stray]

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.

[Signe]

stuff

u r so ikea 

Nah uh!  i r so more Lilly Reich!   

[Sky]

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

[Yegolev]

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.

[Sky]

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.

[Rasix]

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.

[Merusk]

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.

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.

[voodoolily]

Main Entry:
    ir·re·gard·less Listen to the pronunciation of irregardless
Pronunciation:
    \ˌir-i-ˈgärd-ləs\
Function:
    adverb
Etymology:
    probably blend of irrespective and regardless
Date:
    circa 1912

nonstandard : regardless
usage Irregardless originated in dialectal American speech in the early 20th century. Its fairly widespread use in speech called it to the attention of usage commentators as early as 1927. The most frequently repeated remark about it is that “there is no such word.” There is such a word, however. It is still used primarily in speech, although it can be found from time to time in edited prose. Its reputation has not risen over the years, and it is still a long way from general acceptance. Use regardless instead.

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.

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.

[voodoolily]

desmacualting

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

[Signe]

desmacualting

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

[Nevermore]

I'm not going to lower the bar just because a bunch of fucking morons can't use the language properly.

Finnuh, munnuh, muhfuh, I enjoy creating new written vernacular, s'all.

 

[Riggswolfe]

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.

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.

[Merusk]

desmacualting

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

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. 

[Signe]

I thought it very cute!

[voodoolily]

desmacualting

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

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. 

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

[voodoolily]

I'm not going to lower the bar just because a bunch of fucking morons can't use the language properly.

Finnuh, munnuh, muhfuh, I enjoy creating new written vernacular, s'all.

 

I have never claimed that any of these are real words! However! "Whatevs" is officially in the vernack. Suck it, naysayers.

[Nevermore]

I'm not going to lower the bar just because a bunch of fucking morons can't use the language properly.

Finnuh, munnuh, muhfuh, I enjoy creating new written vernacular, s'all.

 

I have never claimed that any of these are real words! However! "Whatevs" is officially in the vernack. 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.