Your Biggest Pet Peeves

[voodoolily]

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.

[Lantyssa]

[Lianka]

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. 

[FatuousTwat]

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.

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!

[Sky]

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. 

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.

[Oban]

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.

[voodoolily]

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.

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

[MahrinSkel]

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.

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

[rattran]

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.

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!

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.

[Cyrrex]

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.

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

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

[Azaroth]

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.

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.

[MahrinSkel]

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.

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.

[Pennilenko]

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.

[Velorath]

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.

[schild]

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.

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.

[Azaroth]

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.

[Samwise]

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

[FatuousTwat]

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.

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.

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?

[Mattemeo]

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.

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.

[MahrinSkel]

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?

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 or this, 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

[FatuousTwat]

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).

[Cyrrex]

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.

[Segoris]

...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.

[Sky]

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 

[Pennilenko]

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

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.

[Oban]

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.

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!

[voodoolily]

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!

[Ingmar]

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!

[Viin]

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.

[Lantyssa]

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

[Yegolev]

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.

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.

[FatuousTwat]

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.

[Cyrrex]

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.

[Signe]

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.

[NowhereMan]

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...