Your Biggest Pet Peeves

[Lantyssa]

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

[MahrinSkel]

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?

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

[Nevermore]

So a combination of lazy and retarded.

[MahrinSkel]

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

[Nevermore]

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.

[Signe]

He flung poo!

[Cyrrex]

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!

[Merusk]

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.

[Hindenburg]

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

[Cyrrex]

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.  

[Merusk]

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.

[Oban]

I can only imagine the cost and corner-cutting that goes into commercial buildings these days.

Bouncy floors are better for your knees.

[Cyrrex]

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".

[Lantyssa]

This discussion has reminded me:  Greedy fucks.

[Sky]

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.

[Cyrrex]

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.

[Mattemeo]

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 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.]

[Signe]

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.

[Mosesandstick]

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

[Lantyssa]

So Paris Hilton and her ilk?

[Jherad]

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

[Signe]

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! 

[Mrbloodworth]

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

[Sky]

Righ says they call them "Celebutantes" here. 

Celebutards.

[Signe]

That sounds more righter.

[Mosesandstick]

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?

[Mattemeo]

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

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.

[Ingmar]

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.

[Signe]

Sloane girls!  On Sloane Street!  In Chelsea!



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

[Engels]

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

[schild]

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

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.

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

[Mattemeo]

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.

[Signe]

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.

[Righ]

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.

[waffel]

OMGIAMACELEBRITAYRILLY massive fucking stupid sunglasses.

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.