Your Biggest Pet Peeves

[schild]

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

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

[stray]

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 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.

[Sky]

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).

[stray]

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).

[Oban]

In-laws.

[Nevermore]

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.

[Lantyssa]

Please tell me you're jokyng.

[Oban]

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

[Lantyssa]

To prevent spamming how stupid I think this is:

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

[Oban]

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

[Nevermore]

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

[voodoolily]

Please tell me you're jokyng.

Heh.

[FatuousTwat]

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

[Merusk]

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. 

[Rasix]

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.   

[NowhereMan]

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.

[Nevermore]

Was that term originally coined on Scrubs ?

[schild]

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.   

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.

[Sky]

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.

[Merusk]

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.

[Samwise]

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.

[gryeyes]

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.

[Sky]

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

[stray]

People who compress files twice.  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.

[schild]

People who compress files twice.  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.

[stray]

You one of those silly double compressing mofos or what? 


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. 

[Righ]

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.

[Nevermore]

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

[Segoris]

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.

[Murgos]

People who compress files twice.  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.

Oh, the hell we go through for free porn.

[Mattemeo]

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).

[Oban]

Chewing gum and those that chew it.

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

[Ironwood]

I once saw an entire family on the London Underground - mum, dad, 2 kids, all gnashing away with their mouths open.

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.

[Oban]

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.

[shiznitz]

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