One of my biggest pet peeves is people who have pride by association. In other words, that guy invented the paperclip and he is purple. I am also purple, therefore I am proud of my purpleness, even though I have never done much myself. It doesn't matter if it is race, religeon, geography, local sports team success, whatever. When someone who hasn't done something gets all puffed up over someone else's accomplishment, which they had nothing whatsoever to do with, just because they have some random similarity, it just annoys the p*** out of me.
Does this bug anyone else?
What is your pet peeve?

Watching sports on TV, and feeling anything.
Braging next day if your team won.
It is as if *you* personally played and won.
If you like baseball, go play it.
You don't get any credit if you weren't on the team.

A guy at work got a new truck.
He tells me his truck can kick my hybrid's ass.
Okay, I think, can he kick my ass?
And if he could, so what?
People project their person into their car.

Machismo I guess is my pet peeve.
I don't understand it.


Some people don't listen when you talk to them.
My boss is that way.
He cuts people off with a VERY LOUD BOOMING VOICE.

You know you have just dissed my purpleness don't you?

JBryan, et tu?

See the Barney "purple-hue" connection .

Wow
You'd think I would have known.
I honestly didn't know purple was a gay color.
Honestly.
Thanks

Mano-man how have I survived as a gay man for so long not knowing about the gay power of the color purple?

Whew, I feel much better now.

Here's another pet peeve of mine. People who can't park in the center of their space.

Using "literally" when it's not appropriate.

Keith,

That hits my button more than anything. I make great effort to be perfectly straight and centered within the lines, and it p***es me off to see some one who takes up 2 spaces.

lb

LB,

How about when the lot is crowded, and the only space to park in is next to some jerk's car that is so far over, that the only way to get out of your car is to squeeze through the 6 inches of space available to you.

Cars. . .

People who take up two spaces often get public notices for this offense. It usually costs them their deductable ($250, $500) to repair the numerous, long key gouges in their paint jobs.

Keith

If you open your door hard enough to put say a 2" dent in his car, you will have 8" then.

If the open space is on the offenders drivers side, I will park about 3" away from them and then watch as they have to crawl in through the passenger side.

lb

Do you think they make the connection?

No wonder you feel the need to carry a gun.

Have you considered anger management courses?

Maybe I just enjoy being annoyed. Here is another pet peeve of mine.
That just about any type of hideous violence and disgusting subject matter can be shown on t.v., but if anyone ever saw a woman's nipple, it would be the end of the world.

My pet peeve is with threads about pet peeves, and I have a bigger pet peeve with people who reply to threads about pet peeves in regards to pet peeves of their own, which spirals me into a quagmire of endless pet peeves spawned by an infinite loop of hate.

Oh, and orange sponges. Green or nothing at all.

"One of my biggest pet peeves is people who have pride by association"

A purely human trait that we all have. If we didn't have pride in our "family", then we aren't human. IMHO It's natural to extend the boundary of family to include everyone up to and including the entire human race.

So Keith, you'd feel no pride when your child does well in a spelling contest at school or when they make it through the school play without tripping over their own feet? How 'bout when your spouse earns recognition at work or a promotion?

Pet peeve: People who never learned the protocol of walking on the right side of the stairs or the sidewalk.

Another pet peeve: People who smoke right in the entry to the building so I'm forced to walk through their sh*t to get in.

Another pet peeve (happens alot in my neighborhood): You're in line at the green grocers (for instance) and the lady ahead of you waits until the cashier has rung up the total before she even opens her purse. Then you have to wait for her to find her wallet, and then wait till she searches every pocket in her wallet and purse for the exact change.

Another pet peeve: People who walk into the deli while you're on line and think it's their right not to wait on line because all they want is a packet of cigarettes. Really ****es me off!!!

Another pet peeve: Cashiers who take the liberty of assuming you don't want that penny in change. (I couldn't care less about the penny, but I don't like the presumption).

Another pet peeve: Cashiers who put a "tip" jar out.

NYC offers many opportunities for pet peeves, I better not continue, I'll end up despondent.

:rolleyes:

Bob,

If my child or spouse earned recognition, I probably contributed somehow. Through some sort of support or guidance or whatever. I might then feel a legitimate sense of pride in my contribution to their success, and a genuine happiness for their accomplishment. It is when people feel proud because their great great uncle wrote a novel, or someone of their same ethnic or religeous background pitched a no-hitter that I get annoyed.

:D No, Steve, I would never do this. However, I frequent a certain Corvette forum where this topic comes up (all too often). It seems that some car owners park in between car spaces to ensure their car doesn't get dinged. And the appropriate response seems to be to damage the car by keying it.

This is not the right thing to do. If you are worried about your car getting dinged then you should park far away at the end of the lot, which is what a lot do (including me on occasion).

Now this brings up another interesting thing. You can park a $50,000 car at the end of the lot a hundred feet from any other car and some old rust bucket will park next to you, usually very close, for no freaking reason other than to annoy you. This is why some people carry dykes with them (side clippers, wire cutters for the uninitiated). When that person comes out of the store they will have four flat tires because all of their valve stems will have been chopped off at the wheel.

I would not do that, either, but there are people that do.

C'mon, Bob, we would have a personal connection with our spouse or child. If the Chicago White Sox win a game it has no effect on my life. I make no more money nor get any more vacation time off. Their performance does not reflect well nor poorly on me. My life is neither better off nor worse off because they won or lost a game.

Okay, I will succumb. My pet peeve is people who can't spell worth a **** and whose grammar is abominable. So many Americans write like third-graders I am both appalled and ashamed.

dittoh.

My pet peeve: People who (in conversation) respond to my/others' statements using the same one word or phrase, especially "Absolutely", "Really", "For sure", and "Wadda ya know".

rvaga, " "

Katie, Bottom line opinion @ the end of the day? ... Abso-Posit-lutely!

Kenny, I share the same pet peeves, which is why I never would enjoy going to a sports bar with a bunch of guys to watch a game. Suddenly, it is all about machismo...waving the clenched fist in the air, grunting, commenting about the blonde with big breasts, belching, etc.
I would much rather hang out with a bunch of women or...gay guys (Did I just say that?)
Eusebius, I'm with you on the "literally" thing...literally. :p
Gryphon, I agree. How can a person get through school and still use a sentence such as this:
"Me and him are going to the game tonight."
I also hate when people make a statement such as, "Please give the money back to he and I."
Pseudointellects.
I hate the use of, "I could care less."
I hate lack of manners in the grocery store. I hate when I spend 10 minutes picking out the best nectarines or apples, only to have the cashier throw the back full of fruit into the cart from 4 feet away.
Bernard, speaking of the penny thing; my brother and I sometimes go to a certain bar for a beer. There is one bartender who will take a 20 dollar bill for 2 drinks and assume that the rest is tip. We refuse to let him serve us anymore.
I hate tailgaters and telemarketers.
I hate when a person tries to get a laugh out of a group of people by making fun of someone else in the group.
I hate when patients come into the ER with a broken hand from punching the wall and look at me like I'm crazy when I tell them that they will need surgery to fix it.
The list could go on and on...

I can't think of any....

jf

How about the use of 'to, too, or two' - Barely anyone gets it right. Sad commentary on the state of our education system if you ask me.

The "I could care less" statement drives me nuts too.

Maybe Kathy will lend you some, Jack?

Yeah Jack,

She might even give you me.

lb

Pet peeves raise my blood pressure, so I've been giving mine up for adoption.

Bernard you just reminded me of this.

I hate going through the grocery store "express" line where they won't take my check, but they let any yahoo (gryph, Doctor John, is this correct grammar/spelling? is yahoo a proper noun? ) with a credit or debit card hold up the line while he/she tries to figure out how to use the equipment and then can't remember their pin number. But me writing a check? Oh, no, we can't have that! Sheesh, give me a break!

Women who use checkbooks at the grocer holding up the line.

I guess I'm sexist.

How about people in front of you at the drive up window at the bank who, for all the time they need, must be taking out a second mortgage.

She might have a few....

jf

People that speed up the minute you pull out from behind them and try to pass.

People that pull out in front of you, even though the road is empty behind you, and proceed to drive 10 miles under the posted speed limit.

Television commercials that are four decibel levels above the volume of the program you are watching.

Spam. Junk mail. Telemarketers.

Those are three that would top my list, but with that last one first.

I'd add: People who run the mower, blower, edger, hedge clippers etc. before 8 a.m.

People who let their cats and dogs roam unattended, or let their dogs bark constantly. I haven't met an animal yet that could not be trained. I can't say the same for people. And people who walk their dogs on a leash and allow the dog to soil their neighbor's lawns. I feel compelled to return the "favor", perhaps in the mailbox.

Networks that scrunch the credits to promo something at the same time, as if no one cares who did what in the concluding program.

Networks that plaster their logo in the corner, right on top of titles and subtitles, often making them unreadable.

Websites that plaster their site with useless crap that bogs down the site. One site lost a $700 sale to me yesterday because of that. I bought elsewhere.

Presumptions and assumptions, of any kind.

I should have left in one other of Plays list--the Rudeness one. Never appropriate.

I have nothing to add that hasn't been said. Everything on my list has already been mentioned: barking dogs; power tools before 8am (I even had a thread last year combining both barking dogs AND leaf blowers at 5AM

Negativity. :p

Actually, I do have a few. But I do try to brush these kinds of things off; it's healthier.

Since I bicycle a lot, one scary one is: some motorists, who would usually be all over the road, become strict lane-observers when approaching me on the bike, thus leaving about one inch between their car and my handlebar.

Pet peeves:
Dudes with loud, thumping car stereos, and loud motorcycles.

A service person who gives a phone call priority over you who are there in person.

Restaurants who sell you too much food. Large quantities at large prices.

Being ripped off for beer or soft drinks at sporting venues. If I can buy a 12 pack of Coke on sale for $2.50, I hate to spend $3 for a cup of mostly ice. I went to a concert recently, $8 beers!

The current tax system that encourages favoritism, cheating, hoards of CPAs, and countless man-hours of wasted effort.

Tiny ketchup packets

Golf courses charging weekend rates on Fridays

"New" Television shows that are always either medical or crime, set in LA or New York.

The designated hitter.

Even worse: People who are not oblivious. Those who look at you but still would never think about getting their carts out of your way.

I hate when anyone says the word "whatever" to mean "I don't care about what you've just said to me."
I don't like selfish people. This can be manifest in so many ways. For instance, when you are waiting at a light and someone heading the opposite direction runs through their protected left turn signal, even after it has turned red. Making you and everyone else wait while they finish getting out of the way. And the biggest pet peave of all for me is when patients argue with me about what I'm recommending. They assume I am only out to make money. When I am really only concerned about their vision and health of their eyes.
Jon

My all time #1 pet peeve is people who toss their cigarette butts out their car windows. Smoking is disgusting enough without adding littering to the list. While waiting at long red lights, I've been SOOO tempted to get out, pick up the butt, knock on their window and say "Excuse me, I think you dropped this." Except I don't want to get shot...

Oh, and a close second - people who smoke in their cars with their babies in the backseat. If you can't control yourself enough to spare your child a gruesome death from lung cancer, at least roll down a window.

Wow. There's so little left to add. I'm gonna start a new thread just about spam.

Some of my least favorite things:
SUVs. SUVs parked in spaces marked 'Compact'.
Cigarette butts thrown from car windows. This is even more annoying to someone on a motorcycle.
The brats buzzing up and down my street on their motorized scooters.
Dog feces in my yard -- I don't have a dog.
Garbage in my yard, obviously thrown from a car window.

In general people who are inconsiderate, rude, obnoxious, and think they are so darned special that rules don't apply to them.

Junk mail.

When 2 whines "But Mummy.."

Grown ups who say "He's only a kid."

People who cross the solid line into the car pool lane.

People who think I"M a snob because I know the difference between to, too, two, and 2.

Phone calls during dinner (we don't answer).

And yeah, all of the above.

Not a pet peeve, just a frustration:

I know full well the differences among "to", "too", and "two", but over the last few years, I have caught myself simply typing the wrong one for a context. I guess my fingers are not keeping up with my brain anymore.

In general, my typing has gotten progressively sloppier over the last decade or so, since it is so darned easy to go back and fix something one didn't type correctly the first time.

But I digress.

Back to our Peevish discussion...

On the subject of grammar peeves: People who confuse "their" and "they're". People who use an apostrophe+s to indicate a plural. People who use "Hay" when they mean "Hey".


Customer Support Reps who deny that there could possibly be anything amiss with their company's product or service.

When my husband and I arrived at the bank to close on a loan for our addition, we found many spelling errors on our paperwork. We refused to sign, needless to say. After finally closing we received a thank you letter from the banker for purchasing our "LONE" at their bank!!!!

Anchor people who can't pronounce simple things. A radio announcer here in Boston reported on the VP "El" Gore and when describing employment news talked of "celery consessions".

And just today... family (5 people) coming to visit call just an hour before we expect them to tell us they haven't left yet!!! (5 hours away) "Don't count on us for dinner!" Sigh... :rolleyes:

I'm feeling peevish; here's a few more:

Jewel cases. ARrgghh.

The difficulty of removing security devices and shrink wrap from new CDs and DVDs.

My new stove came with a warning sticker next to the oven dial. I have yet to be able to remove the glue which held the sticker in place and it attracts and holds dirt.

Agree! You should try trying to get Barbie dolls out of their case! The hair is actually sewn on to the cardboard or plastic. Metal wires and plastic things hold that doll in place.

I have a solution for your sticky sticker dilema. Goo Gone. It's terrific! I, especially with those "made in China" items with the (almost) unremovable stickers.

My pet peeve? People who dump their unwanted animals (cats, dogs, and their offspring) out on the road. In the rural area where I live, they end up at my house, and I ultimately have to make the decision to take them to the animal shelter. That is a decision I would not have to make if they had been responsible pet owners.

Phone trees. Seems like every company I have to deal with has them and you can't get a live person. I waste hours each week on this.

Dog owners that don't clean up after their pets when they take themo out for a walk.

People who stand right by the entrance to a subway car, when there is space in the middle.

Plays, I adopt your list, too. Biting nails really bugs me - [click,click].

Now THAT's a PET peeve!

Nyuck Nyuck Nyuck

How about those phone TREES? - the wireless towers erected around the turnpikes that are "camoflauged" to look like trees - except they tower way above the tree-line looking like a Flinestone movie set conflagration.

yes phone trees.
Some look like palm trees, some like pine trees.

There is one that looked convincing years ago when new.
It even had real palm trees surrounding it that were a little shorter.

Now all the fronds hang limp and dirty and look more shabby compared to the new ones.
The real ones have grown and I'm waiting for them to hack them down.

I think I'm going to dedicate my life to hybridizing trees to look like cell towers.

Wallpaper. At least for this past week or so. I've been ripping it down, sanding, spackling, and painting... My biggest headache is the Wallpaper. Evil. Pure evil.

Paints will do nicely thank you. New favorite paint: Benjamin Moore ("Pan for Gold" and "Spanish Red" and "Umbria Red"). Buh-bye flowery wallpaper.

panhandlers who fake car breakdowns or stories about needing trainfare...

People who deceive and cheat the elderly...if there's a worse place than hell, let's let them stay there...sorry, not a charitable thought.

Ken

People who leave 30 or 40 feet between their car and the one in front of them, while waiting at a stoplight. Particularly inconsiderate when in a left-hand turn lane, or in between "ramp" stoplights at a major intersection. People don't even seem to consider the chaos and inefficiency they are causing behind them when the lane fills up so quickly! It's all I can do to not gently "wave people forward" as I'm sitting there next to them.

People at a buffet dinner who eat for three even though there isn't enough food for those still waiting.

People who say “pitcher” when they really mean, “picture”.

When was the last time you tried to hang a “pitcher” on the wall??

People who can not use the word "myriad" correctly.

Goo Gone is xylene and has a very strong odor which does not dissipate quickly.

On non-porous surfaces, take a fingerful of mayonnaise, and rub it vigorously over the adhesive goo. It will ball up and come right off. Then clean off the mayo with a little soap and water.

And another commonly misused word:

What's wrong with this sentence?
"One of the agents opened the bag, she said, and found "a bottle that had been wrapped in bubble wrap" and became nauseous."

Full article: Perfume shuts down airport.

"a bottle which had been ..."

It is unlikely that the agent became nauseous as a result of finding a bottle. The agent may have been nauseous beforehand, but that particular personality trait is irrelevant. It IS possible, however, that upon finding the bottle the agent became nauseated.

Matt(and PJ), I'm truly impressed! I thought I was the only one in the world who used this term correctly. To say "I am nauseous" literally means, "I am disgusting!"

I hate it when people pretend to be polite when they are being rude.

...and they usually pronounce it "nor-shuss".

Pet peeves?[/b]

Jugglers.

My only real pet[/b] peeve is waking up to find that the
<--- fuzzy face on the pillow next to me has cat food breath.

I was reminded of this one today when I had to pay the bill: the outrageous cost of university textbooks! It's bad enough that you get gouged with tuition hikes every year, why do the learning materials have to be exorbitant too?

All I can say is my kid better wind up doing something with this expensive education she's getting! Her cousin, a cum laude grad from a first tier school, waits tables in Chicago. :rolleyes: