Your Biggest Pet Peeves

[Oban]

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.

That would not be a peeve for me, merely a source of moderate humour.  If the driver was obese or, even better, morbidly obese I would gladly laugh out loud.

[Yegolev]

stuff | grep pattern | awk '{print$2}'

[Sky]

People who refer to OSX by the cat name instead of the number iteration.

I can remember details about 10.3 vs 10.5, but not the difference between Leopard and Tiger, ffs. Not just Trippy (though he prompted the idea), my supervisor is an old mac user and does the same thing, so I deal with this quite a bit. I'm also happy windows went to a number rather than Windows Bubblefart or whatever.

Also, the lack of Firefox and Flash support for 10.3 and the lack of funds to upgrade beyond it.

[Trippy]

Blame Apple for that (that's how they refer to Mac OS X versions in their "non fine print" literature).

[Murgos]

stuff | grep pattern | awk '{print$2}'

You could start billing people by the cycle like they used to back in the day.  You'll either get rich or they'll learn to be efficient.

[Yegolev]

stuff | grep pattern | awk '{print$2}'

You could start billing people by the cycle like they used to back in the day.  You'll either get rich or they'll learn to be efficient.

Oh, I wish... well I might get my wish if the IT division is spun off into its own company.  Besides, I left that line as I found it because I didn't want to push variables into the awk program and am therefore a hypocrite.  I'll append "in trivial cases".  Whew!

[cryptkeeper]

#1 slow drivers in the fast lane.
#2 people who lump all texans together into one group!

[lamaros]

The escalator is not a fucking ride! I have a god damn broken foot and I am getting pissed off at you. You are a 18-20somthing university student, you look fit, the escalator is narrow enough so that people cannot overtake you, blah blah blah, fucking move it!

Also: People who walk down the street with their friends, fanning out to cover the entire pavement (sidewalk) and walking slowly. Fuck you! I don't really want to dawdle behind you and listen to your inane conversations, speed up or move the fuck out of the way.

[Trippy]

The escalator is not a fucking ride! I have a god damn broken foot and I am getting pissed off at you. You are a 18-20somthing university student, you look fit, the escalator is narrow enough so that people cannot overtake you, blah blah blah, fucking move it!

Also: People who walk down the street with their friends, fanning out to cover the entire pavement (sidewalk) and walking slowly. Fuck you! I don't really want to dawdle behind you and listen to your inane conversations, speed up or move the fuck out of the way.

We have an entire thread for this:

http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=17439.0

[lamaros]

The escalator is not a fucking ride! I have a god damn broken foot and I am getting pissed off at you. You are a 18-20somthing university student, you look fit, the escalator is narrow enough so that people cannot overtake you, blah blah blah, fucking move it!

Also: People who walk down the street with their friends, fanning out to cover the entire pavement (sidewalk) and walking slowly. Fuck you! I don't really want to dawdle behind you and listen to your inane conversations, speed up or move the fuck out of the way.

We have an entire thread for this:

http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=17439.0

That thread went dusecrazy after a while, though. Plus I have no thoughts on the topic of driving.

[Signe]

If I didn't hate shopping and malls so much, I could dawdle all day on escalators. 

[stray]

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.

Wait, wait.. What does Ed Hardy have to do with douchebags? And umm.. Douchebag is a loaded term. Everyone is a potential douchebag.  

[lamaros]

If I didn't hate shopping and malls so much, I could dawdle all day on escalators. 

As long as I can get past you I don't care, I do that myself sometimes too. Just stick to the left! It's the people who block the whole thing that peeve me. Which happens a lot at uni, because the escalators are single file there...

[Samwise]

My pet peeve is people who have escalators at their fancy universities and complain about how narrow they are.

[IainC]

When I was at university it were upstairs both ways.

[schild]

When I was at university it were upstairs both ways.

If you need an escalator to go down, you have bigger problems than a few stairs.

[Cyrrex]

I'll bet there's a correlation between the invention of the escalator and the rise of obesity in this country.

#1 slow drivers in the fast lane.
#2 people who lump all texans together into one group!

To be fair, most Texans (not all, most) seem to share two traits:  1) the belief that Texas is fan-fucking-tastic, and 2) firearm ownership.

Yes, that's probably blatantly inaccurate.  But it doesn't seem like it.

[stray]

I've transitioned from firearm to bokken. Texas is fantastic... really, there are only two states worth a damn. Texas and Hawaii. I'm from both.  

[Trippy]

If I didn't hate shopping and malls so much, I could dawdle all day on escalators. 

As long as I can get past you I don't care, I do that myself sometimes too. Just stick to the left! It's the people who block the whole thing that peeve me. Which happens a lot at uni, because the escalators are single file there...

Stick to the left? No wonder you are having problems -- you are trying to pass on the right!

[rattran]

That's what you get in foreign climes.

[Murgos]

I know it's been said before but people who try and cut the line by turning left across traffic on the light change.

80% of the time around here they end up holding up traffic IN BOTH LANES while waiting for the pedestrians to cross.

[voodoolily]

During rush hours, on some streets there is no parking allowed in the right lanes (opening up an extra lane when it's needed). There are clear signs, 2 or so per block, that say "no parking 7-9am on weekdays" or "no parking 4-6pm weekdays". I think that if people park in that lane during rush hour (making a clusterfuck while people have to try to move over all of a sudden) then you should be allowed to lob a brick through their windshield.

[cryptkeeper]

I'll bet there's a correlation between the invention of the escalator and the rise of obesity in this country.

#1 slow drivers in the fast lane.
#2 people who lump all texans together into one group!

To be fair, most Texans (not all, most) seem to share two traits:  1) the belief that Texas is fan-fucking-tastic, and 2) firearm ownership.

Yes, that's probably blatantly inaccurate.  But it doesn't seem like it.

Unfortunately its not.  Texas is alright a lot of nuts..... that own firearms. 

But, not all of us do.....  I dont even have a cow, a cowboy hat or a pickup so I'm revolutionary.

[lamaros]

Peopel who wear too much makeup, especially too much foundation!

[voodoolily]

Peopel who wear too much makeup, especially too much foundation!

This, and women who apply makeup in public. Sort of defeats the purpose, imo.

[schild]

#1 slow drivers in the fast lane.
#2 people who lump all texans together into one group!

To be fair, most Texans (not all, most) seem to share two traits:  1) the belief that Texas is fan-fucking-tastic, and 2) firearm ownership.

Yes, that's probably blatantly inaccurate.  But it doesn't seem like it.

Some of us live in Austin.

[Cyrrex]

I was going to make an exception for Austin, until I realized that people in Austin all think it's fan-fucking-tastic.  And many of them may also own firearms.

[Samwise]

If you don't think where you live is fan-fucking-tastic, why the fuck are you living there?

[Signe]

I would be uncomfortable on a bus with people who get so close to my face to see how much make up I have on!   

Not that I have ever been on a bus.  Or worn foundation.  But still, if I had or did I would be nervous.

[Yegolev]

If you don't think where you live is fan-fucking-tastic, why the fuck are you living there?

Socio-economic stratification?

[Merusk]

If you don't think where you live is fan-fucking-tastic, why the fuck are you living there?

Socio-economic stratification?

Pretty much, yeah.  Oh, and family.  Family's a big one.

[stray]

Pet peeve... When latent homosexuality and homophobia have reached such a level, that even I'm pressured to worry about what sounds "gay" or not. It's like middle school with some dudes.

[Zetor]

Pet peeve of the day: co-workers who insist on keeping windows open when it's 38'C outside, no wind, and high humidity (note: the office has AC), because they "need to hear the sounds of life from the park below" in order to work, leading to the temperature rising by 5-10 degrees when compared to the other rooms.

/sadf

[IainC]

Pet peeve of the day: co-workers who insist on keeping windows open when it's 38'C outside, no wind, and high humidity (note: the office has AC), because they "need to hear the sounds of life from the park below" in order to work, leading to the temperature rising by 5-10 degrees when compared to the other rooms.

/sadf

Pet peeve of the day. It's 30º outside and the humidity is spiking due to the massive thunderstorms we're getting daily. Because of all the computers, the temperature inside is 5º above that but we can't have the windows open (no AC, building is too old) because the receptionist gets cold.

[stray]

And to have this power, the receptionist is banging who exactly?