Topic: Pet Peeves - What's yours???

[trapeze]

When the DVR is full of Oprah. Or retarded stuff from Nickelodeon.

Although it is satisfying repeatedly pushing the red delete button.

[rickl]

I have fingernail clippers that were made in the USA, so that tells you how old they are.

[trapeze]

They wouldn't last a day in my house.

[rickl]

They wouldn't last a day in my house.

What do you do with them, eat them?

[trapeze]

People who can't follow very simple directions.

People who refuse to look at directions at all. I usually don't look at directions unless something just doesn't look right or work correctly. Then I will pull out the directions and get the answer. Mechanical stuff is like that. And for the mechanically inclined and gifted, no problem. For the mechanically hopeless following directions is critical and yet...

One of my kids (who is otherwise pretty smart) can't follow the directions for a cake box recipe. And then is totally mystified when it doesn't come out of the oven correctly. Uh, dude...did you put the oil in? What oil? The oil that it tells you to add right there on the box. Oh...that oil.

[trapeze]

They wouldn't last a day in my house.

What do you do with them, eat them?

I have to hide one set so that I will always have access. All others vanish. I have purchased several dozen of them over the years.

[trapeze]

People who write for a living that can't get it right. Depending on spell check. I see it all the time in articles for the AP and stuff on other outlets like FNC. Obviously bad grammar. Very irritating.

I don't write for a living and I make no apologies for my occasional poor grammar or typos. But is it too much to ask that for those who do write for a living to make a little more effort at getting it right? Some of the stuff I read is nearly incomprehensible. What do editors do these days?

[trapeze]

People who post so frequently that they dominate the "Recent Posts" area.

/sarc

Okay, I'm outta here for a while. Have fun.

[Janny]

When I go to the trouble of flattening out the toothpaste tube (remember when they were metal and stayed rolled up?) and someone squeezes it in the middle.

Yes, as a matter of fact, I do remember that.







 Dammit!

[Pandora]

When I go to the trouble of flattening out the toothpaste tube (remember when they were metal and stayed rolled up?) and someone squeezes it in the middle.

Yes, as a matter of fact, I do remember that.







 Dammit!

Heheh.

Yes, I remember that as well.  One can buy a clip doo-dad that will keep the tube rolled up.

I, however, am one of the squeeze where-ever I grab offenders.  If, when, the tube contains just a little and needs to be "organized", I'd do it then, but Gunsmith always beats me to it.  Without complaint, too.  Just sayin'. 

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About answering machines:  I won't have a conversation with them; I'll say who I am and that I'd like a call back and then hang up.  We have one with a thirty-second message space; if someone exceeds that, the machine just cuts them off and I am darned surprised how many people who should know this insist on talking to the machine until it han

CRAP!!!

I'm on the porch and a lizard just scared the bejayzus outta me!!

... until it hangs up on them.

[warpmine]

My son who reads on an appitude of three grades ahead but writes like he's three grades below. This is what kills me, the teachers all cry foul when we force them into a payscale based on merrit, some making $40/hr and my kid can't write simple projects

[warpmine]

People who wait for oncoming traffic to pass or make the turns even thought those cars are blocks away and their speed is under 40 mph. It's not as if those oncoming cars or trucks can make a hard right turn while at 40 mph. By the time they get to the turn and complete it i'm at least a block ahead

While I'm on the diving subject: Idiots that slow down almost to a crawl to let me in .....I can manage the entrance onto the highway by myself, if you can just do what's expected of you....drive your damn vehicle.

Idiots of society still blaming GW Bush for high gas prices totally ignoring the simple fact that the asshat that they helped elect is the ultimate causation. 

Stupid people...I hate them!

[Janny]

My son who reads on an appitude of three grades ahead but writes like he's three grades below. This is what kills me, the teachers all cry foul when we force them into a payscale based on merrit, some making $40/hr and my kid can't write simple projects

Same here with my high school sophomore. He reads and comprehends as well as any adult I know, but his writing is atrocious! Even after attending a private Christian school through sixth grade, he has trouble with punctuation, etc.

 They just don't teach writing the way they used to, which probably explains why home-schoolers are generally way ahead of their peers in public school.

[John Florida]

My son who reads on an appitude of three grades ahead but writes like he's three grades below. This is what kills me, the teachers all cry foul when we force them into a payscale based on merrit, some making $40/hr and my kid can't write simple projects

 It's you fault!!Teachers are always accusing the parents of not having an interest in their childrens schooling. It's never the teacher.

[Pandora]

My son who reads on an appitude of three grades ahead but writes like he's three grades below. This is what kills me, the teachers all cry foul when we force them into a payscale based on merrit, some making $40/hr and my kid can't write simple projects

Same here with my high school sophomore. He reads and comprehends as well as any adult I know, but his writing is atrocious! Even after attending a private Christian school through sixth grade, he has trouble with punctuation, etc.

 They just don't teach writing the way they used to, which probably explains why home-schoolers are generally way ahead of their peers in public school.

"They" don't teach anything the way they used to.  Some things are simply not grasped intuitively, they need to be drilled in by rote, iow repetition and practice.

There may come a day when I don't know my own name, but I will for sure know the "times-tables".  Went to Catholic elementary school and they were the chant-of-the-day, every day.

[Dan]

Gotta' disagree Trap...VM is the 2d greatest invention behind caller ID. My wife's pet peeve is when I ignore the phone. I always let it go to VM for the same reason IDP does...I don't want to talk right now, and I may not even want to talk to the caller at all! When the wifes out or during the school day, I check caller ID to see if loved one's need something. Other than that, I don't even notice it ringing.
My pet peeve (related) is when people block their #! It's the equivalent of knocking on somebody's door and not responding when asked "Who's there?"!

Others...
Libiots.
Throwing out food. It's the closest thing to a sin that my secular mind can think of. Seeing heaps of food in the trash after a big party just sits poorly with me.
Being asked for my phone # by a retail clerk. My ZIP is one thing, but my f**kin' phone #?!?!?! I'm way more polite than I fel like being, but I know it's not the clerks idea.
Petulant homos.
Drivers who can't take a left turn at an intersection properly. Nobody in MA does it right, to the point that I couldn't even if I wanted to.
Unions.
Union teachers.
Libiots.

About answering machines:  I won't have a conversation with them; I'll say who I am and that I'd like a call back and then hang up.  We have one with a thirty-second message space; if someone exceeds that, the machine just cuts them off and I am darned surprised how many people who should know this insist on talking to the machine until it han

CRAP!!!

I'm on the porch and a lizard just scared the bejayzus outta me!!

... until it hangs up on them.

I was laughing when I got to the point where you got cut off by the lizard. I thought you were joking about how long you were going on.

Not that I thought you were going on too long.

[Pandora]

That's what ran by my chair; I caught it out of the corner of my eye.  I don't mind them around, they eat other bugs [SPIDERS!], but they move fast and often catch me off-guard.

[charlesoakwood]

Skink?

Little critters do wonders.  My yard is a mosquito free zone.  The swallows come back every spring and eat them all.  It is necessary to sacrifice  a small area in the corners of my porch, a fair trade. They had laid claim before I moved in.

[radioman]

How many times Ive sat in church and the preacher says "Ok, this is my last point, so I'll make it quick", only to sit there for another hour.

If they expect us to sit there and not get hungry, why do they hold church during my lunch time?  

EDIT:

Oh yeah,

Me and my wifey go out to a nice restaurant (expensive) to have a nice quiet evening out, and the waiter seats a young family with noisy babies and rug rats at the next table. 

[rickl]

That's what ran by my chair; I caught it out of the corner of my eye.  I don't mind them around, they eat other bugs [SPIDERS!], but they move fast and often catch me off-guard.

If they eat spiders and centipedes, they're welcome in my house.  But I do tend to get jumpy when I see movement out of the corner of my eye, because it often turns out to be a centipede.  I f$#%in hate those things.