Your Biggest Pet Peeves

[Stormwaltz]

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.

[Oban]

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.

[voodoolily]

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.

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

[Merusk]

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.

[lamaros]

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.

[FatuousTwat]

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.

[IainC]

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.

[FatuousTwat]

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.

[IainC]

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?

[Trippy]

Yes. Otherwise our fragile little minds might get warped.

[Segoris]

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

[Yegolev]

Are viewers really going to be traumatised by hearing the word 'ass' or seeing an extended finger?

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

[Sky]

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.

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.

[Hindenburg]

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

[Samwise]

[stray]

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.

[Signe]

I don't know what that means.   

[stray]

Fat Princesses.

[Segoris]

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 

[Teleku]

You sir, are crazy.

[voodoolily]

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

[Yegolev]

EBNF notation.

[Oban]

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

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

[Yegolev]

Fortunately, both types are somewhat bad at both actions.

[Lantyssa]

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.

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.

[Merusk]

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.

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.

[ghost]

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.

[Lantyssa]

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

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.

[Sky]

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.

[K9]

Visual Studio

[Rasix]

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.

[Khaldun]

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).

[Sky]

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.

[voodoolily]

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.)

[IainC]

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'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.