Pet Peeves

[dynigirl]

My job

[Lucian]

Liars.

[Leaf]

insurance companies

[Auburn]

Men looking me up and down.

[Mercury]

Self centered pathological liars who act like they are holier than thou.

[kisstheviolets]

i love lawyer jokes. i mean, for the most part they're pretty funny. but they're just jokes. i get super peeved when people slam lawyers seriously. when a doctor sends you for every test and invasive procedure to determine what the cause of your ailment is, you don't call her ruthless, you call her thorough. however when an attorney zealously advocates the interests of her client, as she is ethically obligated to do (and risks sanction by the board of bar overseers and a malpractice suit if she doesn't) that's suddenly something that allows you to negatively stereotype an entire profession? until you need the services of one, of course.

[NewRuthRising]

Pet peeve number one: I've shown you how to empty the sodding Dyson thirteen times. If you're still gonna make me empty the damn thing, don't criticise my technique!!!!

Pet peeve number two: "Why didn't you answer the phone?"

"I was on the toilet."

"It was important."

"I was on the toilet."

"I don't like it when you ignore me."

"I wasn't ignoring you, I was on the toilet."

"I needed your help."

"Yes, but I was on the toilet. I couldn't answer the phone."

"You could have stopped."

"Excuse me?"

"Never mind."


Can't a girl have a crap in peace?


Pet peeve number three: My mother was a teacher with a degree in English. Barring a slight stutter sometimes, my speech is near-perfect. Bad grammar irritates the hell out of me. Some of my friends have picked up better grammar from me, along with a few made up words, but that's neither here nor there. One of my friend's father dislikes me because I speak well. He thinks good grammar is an insult to his Geordie roots and a southern accent is snobbery. He refuses to speak to me and my friend has confided that she intentionally dumbs-down her speech around the house. Incredible, isn't it?

Pet peeve number four: I don't mind abbreviations in text messages, but I have a cousins who hates vowels and only uses then when she absolutely cant get out of it.. Her texts resemble freakish geometric algorithms (sp?) designed to trigger epileptic fits. An example: R u n nn cmn 2 ncstl 2nt cs mums mkn lm pie.

Erm....what?

[Knock yourself out]

I detest the use of capital letters on nouns when they are not proper nouns. It’s okay in German but not in English…
Actually, I have a host of grammatical pet peeves but that’s today’s.

[Eu Tus Ojos]

I'll have to join you guys in bad grammar and text speak one.

I hate net speak, the way people write online it's just, how hard is it to type proper sentences? God.

Also, Self Help books. They're crap. All they do is peddle a bunch of easy answers and simply generalise everyone and everything, and if the writer isn't saying "omg you're so damn perfect, everything is wonderful, lalalalaaaa!" they're being a condescending twit. And what's worse is that people actually buy into to this tripe.

[dynigirl]

People who get annoyed with my inability to spell and wirte neatly.

Ok sometimes I can't string a sentance together properly.I once wrote a letter then added lots on punctuation at the bottom and said insert as apporiate.

Try undertanding text speak when you have no idea how the word was meant to be spelt in the first place before some letters were replaced with numbers.

I am neither, lazy, dim, nor un-educated, I have two degrees. I am just dyslexic.

[Eu Tus Ojos]

I am neither, lazy, dim, nor un-educated, I have two degrees. I am just dyslexic.

Being dyslexic is very different from bad grammar in general. A dyslexic person is obviously not going to spell incorrectly on purpose.

[NewRuthRising]

Pet peeve number five: People picking on my cousin Rosh for his dyslexia. Come on people, grow up.

Pet peeve number six: How the idiotic bigots around my town can't come up with a better insult than /geordie accent/" How man ye fookin dyke"/geordie accent/ Being called the same thing for years on end gets BORING, morons!

[dynigirl]

Rota's

[seizethemomentgirl]

pet peeves okay.
1. When Im in the room and i have the lamp on and the room is bright enough to see EVERYTHING, then some one else comes in the room and turns on the overhead light, walks across the room, picks some thing up and then leaves without turning off the light that they didn't need. ( i'm not an annoyed person i swear.)
2. When some one is eating cereal and they're trying to get the stuff on the sides and they keep banging the spoon on the side. Thats worse then nails on a chalk board to me.
3. People who chew with their mouth open.
4.People who use sound effects when they speak. And then expect me to understand what the frilly heck they were saying.
5. People who talk with their mouth full.
6. Bad grammer.
7. their, there, they're.
8. to, too, two.

I know for a fact that I have more I Just can't think of them right now. I'll come back later.[/list]

[Candleshoe]

Hold music.

[Auburn]

My friend text me at 11:38 PM and told me it's her mum's birthday tomorrow and they're having a get together at 2PM.

Thanks for the warning, now I won't have to rush around to pick up a card and gift. [/sarcasm]

Pet peeve = silly last minute warnings.

[umgaynow]

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR Freaking AOHELL crashed and I had to reload it so I lost my favorite places...the ones I had saved are from about a year ago and so I lost the links of all the fab stories and new sites I had found in the mean time...double grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...of course the only one I can recall is this one

[kisstheviolets]

straight girls who toy with lesbians just to feel good about themselves.

[umgaynow]

straight girls who toy with lesbians just to feel good about themselves.

I'm with ya there sistah! That's why I don't socialize with straight chicks anymore...I could not stand to hear "If you were a man I'd be in love with you" one more time...left that mindfuck drama behind in my 20's...I feel your pain

Peeve: After all we must be on topic...the way the arthritis in my fingers always seems to flare up when I am in the mood to paint or draw or write...I wonder what my muse did to piss off my knuckles???

Sandi

[NewRuthRising]

People who point out moves in solitaire :

"You can put the red seven on the black eight."

"Yes, thank you."

"Ooh, black four on the-"

"Yes I can see it."

(Pause)

"Black seven-"

"FUCK. OFF."

[Willow Watcher]

When my parents tell me that THEY remember something totally different than I do. OK first off they are 70 something years old and I am 33.
Eventually they find out that I am right but it Pi88es me off when they think that I AM the one who is loosing my mind.

[NewRuthRising]

Magazines that refer to celebrities by their first names (or even nicknames!) despite not knowing them at all. Grrrr.

[JustSkipIt]

Magazines that refer to celebrities by their first names (or even nicknames!) despite not knowing them at all.

Oh god. I'm not the only one. I feel like it's much worse these days than even a year ago. "The woman who charmed Nick" and "Vince asks Jen to marry him..."

On topic: wait people who don't give children silverware or water.

[dynigirl]

My Mum's job. We were meant to be spending the day together and she got called into work for a couple of hours. She just called to say that she is going to be another 4 hours!

[NewRuthRising]

The way Limewire changes the postion of the "later" button on the pop up telling you to upgrade so you cant do it automatically every time, you have to actually pay attention. Good marketing technique, but bloody annoying.

The way when you play minesweeper the little face at the top makes an anxious face every time you click on a square. It's not that suspenseful!

Coldsores.

[dynigirl]

People who ask you to do something then interfers when you try to do it

[dynigirl]

Apologies for double post but it has been awhile.

DVD regions - I have Sugarush on dvd and I can't watch it as my laptop is the wrong region. Boo Hiss Grumble grumble

[NewRuthRising]

DVD players with pissy temperaments that only work if you hold the cath in with the pointy bit of the headphones then close the thingy really fast, thereby creatingcramp in thumbs. Bastard things. Watch out.

[rezeaka]

This makes me sound far lazier than I am, but it's true:

Bagging my own groceries at the grocery store (when I'm not going through the self checkout, or express lane).

Of course it also irks me to no end when they DO bag my groceries for me and they don't put things into a bag when the item(s) fit in a bag! I like to make as few trips as possible when I get home, and I will typically hang 8 or 12 bags of groceries on my arm(s) in order to get the bags into the house in one trip.

-annie

[NewRuthRising]

The little one line advertisements at the bttom of the screen on msn windows. Trying to sell me a mortgage or viagra is one thing, but "discover the benefits of whole grain as a prebiotic"? Oh come on!