Insane pet peeves

The Eclipse · Post by **The Eclipse** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 5:37 pm

Does anyone have any really off the wall things that really just bug the fuck out of you? I'm not talking relatively innoculous shit like 'bad drivers' or 'people who leave to toilet seat up.'

For Example:

I have this irrational murderous hatred of people who either wear T-shirts or display window decals of a Transformers logo because it's 'so retro', yet they cannot identify the difference between Autobots and Decepticons.

Instant Cash · Post by **Instant Cash** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 5:44 pm

oh I have many, the #1 though is Being late. Either if it is me or someone I am meeting. I go crazy.

Szechuan · Post by **Szechuan** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 5:55 pm

I get absolutely furious at anyone displaying a 'punk' image, be it how they dress, wear their hair, etc.. for no good reason. I always jump the gun and assume they're an asshole. It's cuz' I hate seeing these rich suburbanite kids begging for change on the street as if they're so hard done by. (Yes, this happens in my hometown. Dunno about you folks.)

Adam · Post by **Adam** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 6:23 pm

Szechuan wrote:I get absolutely furious at anyone displaying a 'punk' image, be it how they dress, wear their hair, etc.. for no good reason.

Is "Because we want to dress like this" a good reason?

DV8 · Post by **DV8** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 6:27 pm

No. In fact, that's no reason.

Ikarus7 · Post by **Ikarus7** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 6:53 pm

I hate when fashion catch up with me something. I've be wearing something odd for a year or two and then everybody start wearing the good damn thing.

Gunny · Post by **Gunny** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 7:06 pm

People who have jobs that are based on responsibilities for other people (maintenance, apartment managers, etc) and they don't do their frickin' jobs.

For example: There is ice on the steps that lead to the door of the apartment. I have to call the apartment manager and notify them of this so they'll send maintenance out to salt the steps. (It's only winter with snow and ice everywhere. Heaven forbid that the snow melting from the roof above drips down on the steps and ice forms! What insanity is this? What magic!?!? WITCHES!!!!) Time passes and no salt. More time passes, no salt. I have to call and pester them to "remember" to put out a work order to salt the steps.

How do I finally manage to get the steps salted? I come home from work and nearly break my neck slipping on quarter inch thick ice that has completely coated the steps and hand rail. I then notify them that I have injured myself on their steps due to the lack of salting and I will be going to a doctor to see if there are any injuries, to which I will then be calling a lawyer. THEN the fuckers come out and salt immediatly after getting off the phone with me and continue to salt for the next week even if there is no ice.

Kai · Post by **Kai** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 7:52 pm

When people who I have known for like, ever, ask me why I never told them anime was cool.

When the batteries in my cordless keyboard die. I know it happens, but god damn that's annoying.

Not moving the furniture in some room of the house for any period over about 8 months. I dunno, probably a facet of hating too many static things in my life.

I'm sure I have more I just can't think of right now

laughing Monkey · Post by **laughing Monkey** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 7:54 pm

People who talk on their cell phone in the car and then they cut you off. Like being on the cell phone puts them in a different time bubble.
Two words: Hands Free.

Also the people on their cell phones in the video store. I have no problem if you are calling to tell them whats in. I DO have a problem when they talk loud and igonre people around them.

DV8 · Post by **DV8** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 8:04 pm

You know, I've noticed that in myself, more the former than the latter, though, and I also noticed that a hands-free set really improves your awareness.

laughing Monkey · Post by **laughing Monkey** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 8:09 pm

I try not to use the cell phone in the car. I have the hands free for when I get stuck. Either way it takes you away from driving.

The Eclipse · Post by **The Eclipse** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 8:18 pm

I agree, I have a hands free setup and I still prefer not to talk on the phone when I'm driving. Driving to and from work are my quiet times of the day, I hate people calling me in the car.

Daki · Post by **Daki** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 8:37 pm

The one that gets me most is people at the gym who will sit at one machine for 20 minutes at a time even though they are only using the equipment for maybe 90 seconds. One person in particular will bring the paper with him. He will do one set, grab the paper and read it for a bit, do another set, read some more, etc. It really does take me to new levels of pissed off because people are waiting to use that machine and they flat out refuse to move until they are done with it.

laughing Monkey · Post by **laughing Monkey** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 10:41 pm

Or how about the people that work out on cardio watching TV and you know damn well they are not even trying. Just slowly petal... Look at the TV........petal....
I am sorry. If you are working out you better be covered in sweat because you beat your body!

FlakJacket · Post by **FlakJacket** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 12:41 am

DV8 wrote:You know, I've noticed that in myself, more the former than the latter, though, and I also noticed that a hands-free set really improves your awareness.

Although there's still some distraction/decreased reaction times. But you have to use hands-free over here now 'cause otherwise the police yank you over and you get done for it. Which I wholeheartedly agree with.

Reika · Post by **Reika** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 1:18 am

Instant Cash wrote:oh I have many, the #1 though is Being late. Either if it is me or someone I am meeting. I go crazy.

Wow! I'm not the only one with a bug up my ass about punctuality? Amazing.

Other pet peeves, having someone call the 800# of the insurance company you work at to get their doctor's phone#. Um, hello, that's what information is for.

sinsual · Post by **sinsual** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 2:01 am

Squids. You know them, you hate them, you laugh your ass off when they screw up badly and splatter themselves all over the road. The kids that do the burnouts at the stoplight without even thinking about the fact they are throwing rubber all over the car behind them. Then procede to do a wheelie across the intersection only to have to lock up the brakes cause DUH! traffic is STOPPED...frickin moronic idjits.

Szechuan · Post by **Szechuan** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 2:17 am

Adam wrote:
Szechuan wrote:I get absolutely furious at anyone displaying a 'punk' image, be it how they dress, wear their hair, etc.. for no good reason.
Is "Because we want to dress like this" a good reason?

No no no. I get angry for no good reason. My bad.

Serious Paul · Post by **Serious Paul** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 10:14 am

I am never late, but thats because Uncle Sams Misguided Children made me fifteen minutes early for my own death.

My only really irrational pet peeve is my eyes. Don't try and touch them, or put your fingers/hands/fucking whatever near them. I get violent.

Jestyr · Post by **Jestyr** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 12:54 pm

Rhyming. Gaaah. I can stand poetry, but people using rhyming couplets in another context just bugs the fuck out of me.

No, I don't know why.

TheScamp · Post by **TheScamp** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 1:25 pm

Squids. You know them, you hate them, you laugh your ass off when they screw up badly and splatter themselves all over the road. The kids that do the burnouts at the stoplight without even thinking about the fact they are throwing rubber all over the car behind them. Then procede to do a wheelie across the intersection only to have to lock up the brakes cause DUH! traffic is STOPPED...frickin moronic idjits.

Holy crap yes. Those guys piss me off to no end. They're the reason that the first fucking question everyone asks about my bike is "Dude, how fast does the thing go?" Then they look bewildered when I tell them that I don't really care.

Adam · Post by **Adam** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 1:47 pm

Szechuan wrote:No no no. I get angry for no good reason. My bad.

You may want to skip the FanPro booth at GenCon.

Gunny · Post by **Gunny** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 3:05 pm

laughing Monkey wrote:I am sorry. If you are working out you better be covered in sweat because you beat your body!

...but I don't really sweat, I just get red in the face. I will sweat if there's no air circulating through the gym. Of course I'll probably pass out soon after due to the lack of air circulation.

Twisted Sister · Post by **Twisted Sister** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 5:19 pm

People pushing their eyebrows the wrong makes me want to rip out my teeth. Don't do around me. Ever. Not even as a joke. I will vomit on your head.

DV8 · Post by **DV8** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 5:23 pm

How the hell do you push your eyebrows the wrong way?

laughing Monkey · Post by **laughing Monkey** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 5:34 pm

Gunny Wrote:

...but I don't really sweat, I just get red in the face. I will sweat if there's no air circulating through the gym. Of course I'll probably pass out soon after due to the lack of air circulation

.

You get my point. Its people who go to the health club and don't work out.

Twisted Sister · Post by **Twisted Sister** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 6:09 pm

DV8 wrote:How the hell do you push your eyebrows the wrong way?

You seriously think I am going to tell you? If you figure it out you'll never stop doing it, hell no I'm not explaining. Just thinking about it makes me want to claw at my face.

Cazmonster · Post by **Cazmonster** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 6:48 pm

Adam wrote:
Szechuan wrote:No no no. I get angry for no good reason. My bad.
You may want to skip the FanPro booth at GenCon.

I want to see Rob squish Szechuan. I want it bad

Szechuan · Post by **Szechuan** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 6:52 pm

Cazmonster wrote:
Adam wrote:
Szechuan wrote:No no no. I get angry for no good reason. My bad.
You may want to skip the FanPro booth at GenCon.
I want to see Rob squish Szechuan. I want it bad

I could take him.

WillyGilligan · Post by **WillyGilligan** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 8:52 pm

People pushing their eyebrows the wrong makes me want to rip out my teeth. Don't do around me. Ever. Not even as a joke. I will vomit on your head.

Are you talking about people folding their eyelids?

DV8 · Post by **DV8** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 9:21 pm

Szechuan wrote:
Cazmonster wrote:
Adam wrote: You may want to skip the FanPro booth at GenCon.
I want to see Rob squish Szechuan. I want it bad
I could take him.

He's a wiry fucker, sure, but I'm betting he could take you down by moshing on your forehead.

Kai · Post by **Kai** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 9:44 pm

Now see if we want random violence, we ought to just arm Caz with a foam claymore and let him randomly charge booths of gamers and watch them flee for their lives

Oh, and thought of more pet peeves. When you agree to meet, or have an appointment with multiple people, and they all look down on you because you're the only one who showed up on time and everyone else was there early. And that awful noise when someone drags their finger across a balloon. Ugh. Absolute violence towards people who do it on purpose

DV8 · Post by **DV8** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 10:27 pm

I don't know if this qualifies as a pet peeve, but why don't we all pronounce the names of places the way natives pronounce it?

Tourist: "What do you call this place, little native man?"
Native: "We call this place 'Den Haag.'"
Tourist: "Ah, 'The Hague.'"
Dennis: *groan*

Accents are one thing, but Jesus! Imagine the roles were reversed;

Tourist: "What do you call this place, little native man?"
Native: "We call this place 'New York.'"
Tourist: "Ah, 'Noe Joruk.'"
Brine: "Knock it off with that funny foreign gibberish!"

Rev · Post by **Rev** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 10:37 pm

I have a deep seated loathing for people who wear ball caps.

I will radiate disdain at any person wearing a ball cap, or known by me to be a regular wearer of ball caps to the point where such a person will seldom speak to or look at me.

FlakJacket · Post by **FlakJacket** » Sat Feb 07, 2004 12:09 am

People that don't pick up their feet when they go up stairs. They'll lift them just high enough or put their foot on the edge of the step and then drag it forward fully onto the step, making that scuffing sound. Ugh. Although I generally don't like walking up stairs anyway, I have to run up them.

Thorn · Post by **Thorn** » Sat Feb 07, 2004 1:41 am

People who take a perfectly useful verb, turn it into a noun, then turn that noun into a verb. Example: "orientate." No. Wrong. You can orient something a certain way, and something can exhibit a particular orientation, but there is no such verb as "to orientate".

Grrr!

mrmooky · Post by **mrmooky** » Sat Feb 07, 2004 1:52 am

You're not alone. I can't stand the verbing of nouns either.

UncleJoseph · Post by **UncleJoseph** » Sat Feb 07, 2004 4:58 am

Humanity is a pet peeve of mine. People just suck... (bulldrekkers excluded of course).

Kai · Post by **Kai** » Sat Feb 07, 2004 5:49 am

We swallow? Sorry, sorry, couldn't resist...

sinsual · Post by **sinsual** » Sat Feb 07, 2004 6:18 am

^5's Kai

Crazy Elf · Post by **Crazy Elf** » Sat Feb 07, 2004 7:28 am

1) Fuck heads who wear sleeveless T-shirts but have no muscle mass.
People who have never done a push up in their life should not wear a sleeveless T-shirt. The end. If you're a lanky thin fuck head who looks like he'll break if the wind blows, put some fucking sleeves on!

2) People who drive below the speed limit in the overtaking lane.
These people meet Mr Club Lock.

3) Stupid fucking whores who fuck guys in dog suits.
I FUCKING HATE THAT!

4) White guys who really really want to be Asian.
If you're white, and you change you're name to something Chinese, it doesn't make you cool, it makes you fucking stupid.

5) Morons who think Satan's cool, but don't believe in God.
They're in the same pantheon, you fucks! YOU FUCKING SHIGHBDJGL:ASH FUCK YO!U

6) People who "attempt" suicide.
Really, how much of a loser would you have to be to fuck that up?

7) Shit bricks that think anti-depressants are a status symbol.
You're not cool if you're on pills, you have problems. Not bra gable.

People who claim to be Christians, but haven't read the Bible.
That's like saying you're a math major, but have trouble with 1 + 1.

9) When someone says that Blink 182 are punk.
They're not, they're pop, and they totally suck.

10) Anyone who tries to make a Dune movie.
Everyone who's tried is a fucking toadstool!

11) David Lynch and people who think he's a genius.
He's not, he's suffering from dementia and people suffering from dementia should never be let near a camera ever full stop the end.

12) Tampon adds.
I'M NOT GOING TO BUY THEM! SHUT THE FUCK UP!

13) People who think Fight Club was pointless and stupid.
*smack* Welcome to fight club, fucker! The first rule is you BLEED!

14) When someone calls me on the phone, I don't answer, and they don't leave a fucking message!
Jesus Christ are you retarded?

15) Having to go to work halfway through a rant about things that fucking shit you to tears!
FUCK I HATE THAT!

Serious Paul · Post by **Serious Paul** » Sat Feb 07, 2004 12:04 pm

Who swallows?

Jestyr · Post by **Jestyr** » Sat Feb 07, 2004 12:32 pm

Crazy Elf wrote:5) Morons who think Satan's cool, but don't believe in God.
They're in the same pantheon, you fucks! YOU FUCKING SHIGHBDJGL:ASH FUCK YO!U

The Eclipse · Post by **The Eclipse** » Sat Feb 07, 2004 4:21 pm

Jesus, it scares me when I agree with CE completely.

4) White guys who really really want to be Asian.
If you're white, and you change you're name to something Chinese, it doesn't make you cool, it makes you fucking stupid.

God, we have an infestation of whitegirls who want to be asian in southern California.

Thunderchild · Post by **Thunderchild** » Sat Feb 07, 2004 7:56 pm

1. "Gangsta Rappers" - if they got up to 10% of the shit they go on about in their songs, the DEA, ATF and FBI would be booting down the doors to their "cribs" and "busting caps".

2. People who use "pimpspeak"

3. when someone says "we should do *insert idea here*" you say "yeah ok" and then they insist on telling you why its such a good idea when you already said yes

lordhellion · Post by **lordhellion** » Sat Feb 07, 2004 10:37 pm

Thunderchild wrote:3. when someone says "we should do *insert idea here*" you say "yeah ok" and then they insist on telling you why its such a good idea when you already said yes

By that, you obviously mean 98% of middle- and upper-management persons in the US, right?

What really twists my cookies are people who like to bad mouth anyone whose beliefs are slightly different from thier own, mostly because they are all convinced that they are extremely smarter than everyone else on the planet, i.e. most of the people I deal with on a daily basis.

Sock_Monkey · Post by **Sock_Monkey** » Sat Feb 07, 2004 11:10 pm

1) People who wear their hats on backwards or crooked or three quarter turned. If you have a reason to wear a hat, fine. Try not to look like you're challenged when you do so.

2) People who answer the phone when they're on the john. You know, you're talking to someone and there's this strange echo. You know, even if I am dying you're probably not going to cut your turd off half way to run help me.

3) Goths. If black is your thing that's fine. What I can't stand are those twits who try to romantisize death or think it would be cool to be a vampire. Death ain't cool, it ain't some forlorn pretty girl with bad make up dyed hair. Death is the crushed corpse of a worker in the mud of a construction site. Think about that you paintstick wearing malnourished freaks.

4) The fact that so many people I know liked Pearl Harbour. No the same two guys who managed to get off Wheeler Field did not go on the Doolittle Raid, and if you're so concerned with weight that you replace the waist guns with broom handles why do you still take the fucking gunners along!

5) People who absolutely hate communism but have no idea what it actually stands for.

6) Picky eaters. I mean you're supposed to be picky about the food you make yourself or buy at an establishment, but if someone else goes through the trouble to offer you some of their food or even better cooks a meal for you and you pick through it and complain the entire time it pisses me off. You do it when I'm the cook and I'll beat you to an inch if your miserable life with my wisk. Go without food you fuck!

The Eclipse · Post by **The Eclipse** » Sun Feb 08, 2004 12:54 am

1) People who wear their hats on backwards or crooked or three quarter turned. If you have a reason to wear a hat, fine. Try not to look like you're challenged when you do so.

Bless you

Cash · Post by **Cash** » Sun Feb 08, 2004 1:28 am

People that chew with they mouth open or sniffle constantly without blowing their nose. Oh dear God! Shut the trap or blow your damn nose. I have 2 friends that do this constantly. It's to the point that I'll avoid eating with them if I can help it because, "Close your mouth" or "Could you blow your nose" don't work.

DV8 wrote:I don't know if this qualifies as a pet peeve, but why don't we all pronounce the names of places the way natives pronounce it?

*Lesson from Cash's trip to Aus*
Store clerk:: "You're from the US? Where have you been?"
Me:: "Just around Brisbane--"
Store clerk:: "--Brisbin--" (phoenetically)
Me:: "--Brisbin."

*At Jestyr's parents, looking at an atlas of California*
Jestyr's mom:: "What's the San Joecane Valley like?
Me:: "San Wakeen." (phoenetically again).

Thunderchild · Post by **Thunderchild** » Sun Feb 08, 2004 4:10 am

Cash wrote:People that chew with they mouth open or sniffle constantly without blowing their nose. Oh dear God! Shut the trap or blow your damn nose. I have 2 friends that do this constantly. It's to the point that I'll avoid eating with them if I can help it because, "Close your mouth" or "Could you blow your nose" don't work.

DV8 wrote:I don't know if this qualifies as a pet peeve, but why don't we all pronounce the names of places the way natives pronounce it?
*Lesson from Cash's trip to Aus*
Store clerk:: "You're from the US? Where have you been?"
Me:: "Just around Brisbane--"
Store clerk:: "--Brisbin--" (phoenetically)
Me:: "--Brisbin."

*At Jestyr's parents, looking at an atlas of California*
Jestyr's mom:: "What's the San Joecane Valley like?
Me:: "San Wakeen." (phoenetically again).

Now im not saying its you cash, but one of my pet peeves is those damn americans who think that we ride kangaroos, every animal we have is poisonous and that we all live in the outback. next time an american asks me that im gonna say "yeah, and is it true all americans drive massive pickup trucks, drink really shitty beer and fuck their sisters"

Note to foreigners: The reason we exported Steve Irwin was that we couldnt fucking stand him.