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As many of you will remember, the 'pet peeves' was good ol' SR rant, with everyone venting their annoyances. On the internet. Score.
Well anyway.. for those of you who have no idea what it's about, you basically list the things that get on your nerves, with a little rant about why under each.
Yet now, it's basically just anything that annoys you really
Warning.. this could be a long, long rant
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People who say 'me' when talking about going somewhere
I realise, this sounds a bit strange, but what I mean is the people who talk about who's gonna be somewhere they've been talking about, when you both know you're going.. then when you ask who else is they say "me, etc". Gah!
We was
It's we were. It's really not that hard. Plain and simple.
You know what I mean?
I'm sure everyone's said or heard it a good few times in their life, when people feel the need to qualify what they've just said with 'know what I mean?', when it's totally unecessary. Blargh!
Dog crap
Come on, pick it up! How hard can it possbily be to just bend down and scoop it up.. or simply just make sure your dog doesn't lay a ten pounder right in the middle of the pavement, usually somewhere in the dark where it can't be seen. Best of all, it's next to impossible not to stand in it, then, the grip on your shoes that's been wearing for the last three years and is almost non-existent suddenly becomes flypaper for little chunks of dog dump.
Saturday Night tv
Let's be honest, it's one of the nights of the week that people would be more than happy to sit down to a little tv about the time you come in from work, or as you stagger home in a paralytic state.. yet all that's ever on is 'Ant and Dec's grab yourself a brain' or the after-midnight slot of quiz shows, that are simply moneygrabbing and pathetic.
Leering O.A.Ps
Maybe leering is too harsh a word, yet, you only have to walk past a pensioner these days for them to give you a look you'd expect Jack the Ripper to get as he walks down the road in a trail of blood, clutching a severed head.. or simply one filled with hatred. When I say walk past I don't mean swaggering past in the escaped-convict look, I mean walking past casually, maybe even giving a slight nod or smile that quickly dies on your lips.
People are never there when you want them to be
I don't mean this in the 'boo-hoo I need a shoulder to cry on' sense, more that whenever you actually need to speak to someone about something you're doing, you almost always never see them.. yet when you don't really care if a person's around or not.. there they are! all the time!
Now that's what I call Music!
Well, it's what I call awful. I hate the chart music, and it's completely beyond me why they felt the need to release more than one 'album' of this in the first place =|
Car Alarms
It's 2am. You're just drifting off to sleep. Outside in the lane and ant coughs and... BEEEEEP! BEEEEEEP! BEEEEEP! on the ten second mark, every ten seconds, for the next few hours. Arrrrgh!
Chewing Gum
There's almost nothing I like about the stuff, and genuinely can't stand the appeal of little strips of plastic coated in sugar. Having said that, I've never even had a piece in my mouth in my life. I get put off mainly by the smell of it.. warm on people's breath is horrible, and the disgusting, sticky little balls that get everywhere. Usually in your hair or all over your shoes.
Mayonnaise
Why the hell does it have to be in everything?! It doesn't mind things together, it just looks and tastes horrible, dribbling all over your clean clothes out the side of a sandwich. Hellman's makes it? Hellman's ruins it.
iTunes
It's about the worst music transferring programme imaginable, half the point of an MP3 player to remove some of the space from your pc, and yet should you want to delete anything from iTunes, the next time you try and add something else the thing that isn't there anymore will be deleted. It wouldn't bother me so much if it was only music, yet films to take me days to download - that I then want off my hardrive - are gone forever.
Age ratings
Thanks BBFC for attempting to protect our children from films they'll only watch with their parents anyway. It just seems to me that preventing people from buying alcohol and cigarettes is fair enough, but stopping people who are seventeen from buying eighteen related films and especially games is just pedantic.
DVD Boxsets
I like the amount of watching time you get out of a boxset, as compared to a film, yet the prices are too high for starters. Now sale prices on things like the American Dad boxset aren't too bad, only £9 for a boxset, but then that's only for a half series! Then there's things like the Simpsons which have only managed to release up to the now ancient Series Eight, yet charge in excess of £30 a set. Finally there's a popular, reasonably long-running series of Malcolm in the Middle which has yet to release any boxsets!
'Deals' and Catches
You've all been suckered in and annoyed by them I'm sure, yet they never stop getting on my nerves. You always seem to see a great deal which then either has so much small print that it's not a deal anymore, or is only available if you subscribe to something that then prevents you from quitting it.
The way the Simpsons went south
Let's be honest, until about Series Nine the Simpsons was brilliant, but then ended up with random endings to episodes that seemed to stem from nowhere, or too many series-specific jokes that aren't funny to those who don't watch 'em.
Stereotypical English 'toffs'
In almost every Hollywood film, English people are portrayed as rich stuck-up members of the 'upper class', rather than the normal people you would see around. We always seem to gain a part as a villain or a whiney, annoying character that you can't wait to die.
WHSmith
They over price everything, the DVDs are about three times the cost that they are anywhere else, the range of CDs is pretty poor and relatively expensive, and even the stationery they're good for seems quite pricey.
The cinema
It's extortion that the price of entry is over a fiver, let alone having to shell out more than £3 even for a small popcorn. I understand and quite like the mentality that to upgrade between sizes is only a matter of pence, yet, I think that should be between medium and large, with small about half the price.
Being PC
I hate the way that everything ever said on tv, in the media, or even in schools now has to be politically correct with people screaming 'racism' at every comment and even the extreme of changing the word 'brainstorm' to 'mindmap' as it might be deemed offensive to epileptics =|
Socks
You never seem to have enough. They usually contrast to the clothes you're wearing. You wear them inside out and don't notice. They quickly wear through or get unwashably dirty.
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And that's how for now, kids
Well anyway.. for those of you who have no idea what it's about, you basically list the things that get on your nerves, with a little rant about why under each.
Yet now, it's basically just anything that annoys you really
Warning.. this could be a long, long rant
*
People who say 'me' when talking about going somewhere
I realise, this sounds a bit strange, but what I mean is the people who talk about who's gonna be somewhere they've been talking about, when you both know you're going.. then when you ask who else is they say "me, etc". Gah!
We was
It's we were. It's really not that hard. Plain and simple.
You know what I mean?
I'm sure everyone's said or heard it a good few times in their life, when people feel the need to qualify what they've just said with 'know what I mean?', when it's totally unecessary. Blargh!
Dog crap
Come on, pick it up! How hard can it possbily be to just bend down and scoop it up.. or simply just make sure your dog doesn't lay a ten pounder right in the middle of the pavement, usually somewhere in the dark where it can't be seen. Best of all, it's next to impossible not to stand in it, then, the grip on your shoes that's been wearing for the last three years and is almost non-existent suddenly becomes flypaper for little chunks of dog dump.
Saturday Night tv
Let's be honest, it's one of the nights of the week that people would be more than happy to sit down to a little tv about the time you come in from work, or as you stagger home in a paralytic state.. yet all that's ever on is 'Ant and Dec's grab yourself a brain' or the after-midnight slot of quiz shows, that are simply moneygrabbing and pathetic.
Leering O.A.Ps
Maybe leering is too harsh a word, yet, you only have to walk past a pensioner these days for them to give you a look you'd expect Jack the Ripper to get as he walks down the road in a trail of blood, clutching a severed head.. or simply one filled with hatred. When I say walk past I don't mean swaggering past in the escaped-convict look, I mean walking past casually, maybe even giving a slight nod or smile that quickly dies on your lips.
People are never there when you want them to be
I don't mean this in the 'boo-hoo I need a shoulder to cry on' sense, more that whenever you actually need to speak to someone about something you're doing, you almost always never see them.. yet when you don't really care if a person's around or not.. there they are! all the time!
Now that's what I call Music!
Well, it's what I call awful. I hate the chart music, and it's completely beyond me why they felt the need to release more than one 'album' of this in the first place =|
Car Alarms
It's 2am. You're just drifting off to sleep. Outside in the lane and ant coughs and... BEEEEEP! BEEEEEEP! BEEEEEP! on the ten second mark, every ten seconds, for the next few hours. Arrrrgh!
Chewing Gum
There's almost nothing I like about the stuff, and genuinely can't stand the appeal of little strips of plastic coated in sugar. Having said that, I've never even had a piece in my mouth in my life. I get put off mainly by the smell of it.. warm on people's breath is horrible, and the disgusting, sticky little balls that get everywhere. Usually in your hair or all over your shoes.
Mayonnaise
Why the hell does it have to be in everything?! It doesn't mind things together, it just looks and tastes horrible, dribbling all over your clean clothes out the side of a sandwich. Hellman's makes it? Hellman's ruins it.
iTunes
It's about the worst music transferring programme imaginable, half the point of an MP3 player to remove some of the space from your pc, and yet should you want to delete anything from iTunes, the next time you try and add something else the thing that isn't there anymore will be deleted. It wouldn't bother me so much if it was only music, yet films to take me days to download - that I then want off my hardrive - are gone forever.
Age ratings
Thanks BBFC for attempting to protect our children from films they'll only watch with their parents anyway. It just seems to me that preventing people from buying alcohol and cigarettes is fair enough, but stopping people who are seventeen from buying eighteen related films and especially games is just pedantic.
DVD Boxsets
I like the amount of watching time you get out of a boxset, as compared to a film, yet the prices are too high for starters. Now sale prices on things like the American Dad boxset aren't too bad, only £9 for a boxset, but then that's only for a half series! Then there's things like the Simpsons which have only managed to release up to the now ancient Series Eight, yet charge in excess of £30 a set. Finally there's a popular, reasonably long-running series of Malcolm in the Middle which has yet to release any boxsets!
'Deals' and Catches
You've all been suckered in and annoyed by them I'm sure, yet they never stop getting on my nerves. You always seem to see a great deal which then either has so much small print that it's not a deal anymore, or is only available if you subscribe to something that then prevents you from quitting it.
The way the Simpsons went south
Let's be honest, until about Series Nine the Simpsons was brilliant, but then ended up with random endings to episodes that seemed to stem from nowhere, or too many series-specific jokes that aren't funny to those who don't watch 'em.
Stereotypical English 'toffs'
In almost every Hollywood film, English people are portrayed as rich stuck-up members of the 'upper class', rather than the normal people you would see around. We always seem to gain a part as a villain or a whiney, annoying character that you can't wait to die.
WHSmith
They over price everything, the DVDs are about three times the cost that they are anywhere else, the range of CDs is pretty poor and relatively expensive, and even the stationery they're good for seems quite pricey.
The cinema
It's extortion that the price of entry is over a fiver, let alone having to shell out more than £3 even for a small popcorn. I understand and quite like the mentality that to upgrade between sizes is only a matter of pence, yet, I think that should be between medium and large, with small about half the price.
Being PC
I hate the way that everything ever said on tv, in the media, or even in schools now has to be politically correct with people screaming 'racism' at every comment and even the extreme of changing the word 'brainstorm' to 'mindmap' as it might be deemed offensive to epileptics =|
Socks
You never seem to have enough. They usually contrast to the clothes you're wearing. You wear them inside out and don't notice. They quickly wear through or get unwashably dirty.
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And that's how for now, kids
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Nin wrote:
> Other People
> Other People suck! It doesn't matter how good a day you're
> having, Other People are guaranteed to ruin it without even
> trying. I dont know why i bother with them.
> I had planned a longer rant on why people suck but i dont think
> i need to tell anyone because you all know it anyway.
> Other People? F**k 'em
I second that notion! Usually I'm quite a calm chap, but when I'm doing some shopping in a supermarket, and some group of people are standing in the middle of the isle with trollies, yabbering on with not a care in the world and not a single bit of consideration for anyone else, so just stand there blocking everything, that really irritates me :D
Oh and bad drivers, ones that go down the middle/outer lane on a motorway when the inside lane is clear, I'll slow it down to 70, and I'm still going faster than them!!! (not that I was speeding in the first place of course!) ...and when people cut you up...yeah, people in general are quite annoying :)
> Other People
> Other People suck! It doesn't matter how good a day you're
> having, Other People are guaranteed to ruin it without even
> trying. I dont know why i bother with them.
> I had planned a longer rant on why people suck but i dont think
> i need to tell anyone because you all know it anyway.
> Other People? F**k 'em
I second that notion! Usually I'm quite a calm chap, but when I'm doing some shopping in a supermarket, and some group of people are standing in the middle of the isle with trollies, yabbering on with not a care in the world and not a single bit of consideration for anyone else, so just stand there blocking everything, that really irritates me :D
Oh and bad drivers, ones that go down the middle/outer lane on a motorway when the inside lane is clear, I'll slow it down to 70, and I'm still going faster than them!!! (not that I was speeding in the first place of course!) ...and when people cut you up...yeah, people in general are quite annoying :)
Vexxxed wrote:
> I second that notion! Usually I'm quite a calm chap, but when
> I'm doing some shopping in a supermarket, and some group of
> people are standing in the middle of the isle with trollies,
> yabbering on with not a care in the world and not a single bit
> of consideration for anyone else, so just stand there blocking
> everything, that really irritates me :D
that irritates the hell out of me too. Mothers meetings and old people that think its great to just have a reunion in the mid of town :S
> I second that notion! Usually I'm quite a calm chap, but when
> I'm doing some shopping in a supermarket, and some group of
> people are standing in the middle of the isle with trollies,
> yabbering on with not a care in the world and not a single bit
> of consideration for anyone else, so just stand there blocking
> everything, that really irritates me :D
that irritates the hell out of me too. Mothers meetings and old people that think its great to just have a reunion in the mid of town :S
Ditto. I think I hate it more in town because they just block the entire path so you have to step out onto the road just to get around them. There's plenty of room for them to stand to one side and let others past but no, they have to stand there and talk as if no one else existed. Slap bang in the middle.
Forgot about this topic!
Well I haven't made the list that I promised a while back ,so I'll just quickly do it off the top of my head. Don't expect explanations as to why these annoy me though because it'd make the post far too long!
- Imperfections
- Late buses
- People who get in the way
- Slow-moving people
- People who'd rather walk through you than round you
- People who get in the way
- People who smoke
- People with really annoying voices
- People who'd rather cross next to a pelican crossing than use the pelican crossing
- People who park on corners
- People who park opposite junctions
- People who doulbe-park
- The fact that our roads simply aren't capible
- Hypocracy
- Facts that contradict themselves or another fact
- Ditto for laws
- Ditto for statistics
- Statistics
- Political correctness
- Loan adverts
- Insurance adverts
- Barry Scott
- Churchil (the dog)
- The fact that the word "black" is practically illegal in a public place
- Call centres
- When things don't work
- My brother
- My dad
- Cheaters
- When something obviously doesn't work, but is being made mandatory or national. (eg. here in Norfolk, we've had bi-weekly pickups for rubbish for ages. It simply doesn't work, and they still do it. And recently they've been talking on the news about making it national. Are they bloody retarded or something? Don't answer - it's yes)
- The fact that JVC wanted to charge my more than the value of my camcorder to get the simple little clutch mechanism fixed on the zoom lens
- Lazyness
- Mess / being untidy
- People who insist that I haven't tried something when I tell them I don't like it
- The fact that my wireless router randomly cuts us all off for a few seconds sometimes. Affects me less than my brother though, who just shouts about it and doesn't try to fix it. He doesn't understand what he's on about anyway.
- Boxes
- Box filler
- When things don't get done
- Not having enough of something to finish something
- Being hungry
- The way the news blows "facts" out of proportion
- Being rushed
I'll probably think of more later.
Well I haven't made the list that I promised a while back ,so I'll just quickly do it off the top of my head. Don't expect explanations as to why these annoy me though because it'd make the post far too long!
- Imperfections
- Late buses
- People who get in the way
- Slow-moving people
- People who'd rather walk through you than round you
- People who get in the way
- People who smoke
- People with really annoying voices
- People who'd rather cross next to a pelican crossing than use the pelican crossing
- People who park on corners
- People who park opposite junctions
- People who doulbe-park
- The fact that our roads simply aren't capible
- Hypocracy
- Facts that contradict themselves or another fact
- Ditto for laws
- Ditto for statistics
- Statistics
- Political correctness
- Loan adverts
- Insurance adverts
- Barry Scott
- Churchil (the dog)
- The fact that the word "black" is practically illegal in a public place
- Call centres
- When things don't work
- My brother
- My dad
- Cheaters
- When something obviously doesn't work, but is being made mandatory or national. (eg. here in Norfolk, we've had bi-weekly pickups for rubbish for ages. It simply doesn't work, and they still do it. And recently they've been talking on the news about making it national. Are they bloody retarded or something? Don't answer - it's yes)
- The fact that JVC wanted to charge my more than the value of my camcorder to get the simple little clutch mechanism fixed on the zoom lens
- Lazyness
- Mess / being untidy
- People who insist that I haven't tried something when I tell them I don't like it
- The fact that my wireless router randomly cuts us all off for a few seconds sometimes. Affects me less than my brother though, who just shouts about it and doesn't try to fix it. He doesn't understand what he's on about anyway.
- Boxes
- Box filler
- When things don't get done
- Not having enough of something to finish something
- Being hungry
- The way the news blows "facts" out of proportion
- Being rushed
I'll probably think of more later.
Twain wrote:
> - Imperfections
Meh, everybody has them.
> - Late buses
What? Late buses rock.
> - People who get in the way
Not me.
> - Slow-moving people
Meh. I walk without purpose.
> - People who'd rather walk through you than round you
Then piroette my friend.
> - People who get in the way
You already said this.
> - People who smoke
I've only done this twice. Ever.
> - People with really annoying voices
Like my posh London accent?
> - People who'd rather cross next to a pelican crossing than use
> the pelican crossing
What the hell is a pelican crossing?
> - People who park on corners
True, that sucks.
> - People who park opposite junctions
Meh.
> - People who doulbe-park
That sucks.
> - The fact that our roads simply aren't capible
Take a healthier route.
> - Hypocracy
Never.
> - Facts that contradict themselves or another fact
Never.
> - Ditto for laws
> - Ditto for statistics
> - Statistics
Nevah.
> - Political correctness
Shhh, I'm trying to mind-map.
> - Loan adverts
They make me want to put my fist through a window.
> - Insurance adverts
As above.
> - Barry Scott
Is he deaf?
> - Churchil (the dog)
Same.
> - The fact that the word "black" is practically
> illegal in a public place
Maybe where you live, what do you say? Coloured? :D
> - Call centres
Sometimes they annoy me.
> - When things don't work
Yes, that sucks.
> - My brother
> - My dad
Awww.
> - Cheaters
Nickgreen, I know you're out there!
> - The fact that JVC wanted to charge my more than the value of
> my camcorder to get the simple little clutch mechanism fixed on
> the zoom lens
Gwah?
> - Lazyness
Moi.
> - Mess / being untidy
Yeah, that sucks and my bro is such a slob.
> - People who insist that I haven't tried something when I tell
> them I don't like it
But you haven't!!
> - The fact that my wireless router randomly cuts us all off for
> a few seconds sometimes. Affects me less than my brother though,
> who just shouts about it and doesn't try to fix it. He doesn't
> understand what he's on about anyway.
Mine works fine.
> - Boxes
They take up too much space.
> - Box filler
As above.
> - When things don't get done
DIY.
> - Not having enough of something to finish something
I don't get cha.
> - Being hungry
Yeah, that blows.
> - The way the news blows "facts" out of proportion
True, media sucks.
> - Being rushed
I work well under pressure.
>
> I'll probably think of more later.
good for you son, let it all out :)
> - Imperfections
Meh, everybody has them.
> - Late buses
What? Late buses rock.
> - People who get in the way
Not me.
> - Slow-moving people
Meh. I walk without purpose.
> - People who'd rather walk through you than round you
Then piroette my friend.
> - People who get in the way
You already said this.
> - People who smoke
I've only done this twice. Ever.
> - People with really annoying voices
Like my posh London accent?
> - People who'd rather cross next to a pelican crossing than use
> the pelican crossing
What the hell is a pelican crossing?
> - People who park on corners
True, that sucks.
> - People who park opposite junctions
Meh.
> - People who doulbe-park
That sucks.
> - The fact that our roads simply aren't capible
Take a healthier route.
> - Hypocracy
Never.
> - Facts that contradict themselves or another fact
Never.
> - Ditto for laws
> - Ditto for statistics
> - Statistics
Nevah.
> - Political correctness
Shhh, I'm trying to mind-map.
> - Loan adverts
They make me want to put my fist through a window.
> - Insurance adverts
As above.
> - Barry Scott
Is he deaf?
> - Churchil (the dog)
Same.
> - The fact that the word "black" is practically
> illegal in a public place
Maybe where you live, what do you say? Coloured? :D
> - Call centres
Sometimes they annoy me.
> - When things don't work
Yes, that sucks.
> - My brother
> - My dad
Awww.
> - Cheaters
Nickgreen, I know you're out there!
> - The fact that JVC wanted to charge my more than the value of
> my camcorder to get the simple little clutch mechanism fixed on
> the zoom lens
Gwah?
> - Lazyness
Moi.
> - Mess / being untidy
Yeah, that sucks and my bro is such a slob.
> - People who insist that I haven't tried something when I tell
> them I don't like it
But you haven't!!
> - The fact that my wireless router randomly cuts us all off for
> a few seconds sometimes. Affects me less than my brother though,
> who just shouts about it and doesn't try to fix it. He doesn't
> understand what he's on about anyway.
Mine works fine.
> - Boxes
They take up too much space.
> - Box filler
As above.
> - When things don't get done
DIY.
> - Not having enough of something to finish something
I don't get cha.
> - Being hungry
Yeah, that blows.
> - The way the news blows "facts" out of proportion
True, media sucks.
> - Being rushed
I work well under pressure.
>
> I'll probably think of more later.
good for you son, let it all out :)
Pet Peeve :
My mum playing streamed music in a chatroom while I'm trying to play Battlefield 2 ...
Where did all my lovely bandwidth go? Bah ... KICKED FROM SERVER :(
My mum playing streamed music in a chatroom while I'm trying to play Battlefield 2 ...
Where did all my lovely bandwidth go? Bah ... KICKED FROM SERVER :(
I have the same problem with my sister playing streamed music and me playing Tremulous.
Need a fatter pipe.
Need a fatter pipe.
People at the checkout who have 30+ items and don't let you go infront even though you've only got 2 and will be done in a flash.
Green = Cheese and Onion
Blue = Salt and Vinegar
When will they learn =(
Hedfix wrote:
> People at the checkout who have 30+ items and don't let you go
> infront even though you've only got 2 and will be done in a
> flash.
I always let them go ahead =)
When we go shopping at Lidl's (the german supermarket, you guys might not know them). Some people get put off waiting behind us because we buy so much stuff. I always do this face ¬_¬ because I just chuck everything into the trolley as fast as possible. So while I'm loading up the car they're still waiting in line. The fools.
Blue = Salt and Vinegar
When will they learn =(
Hedfix wrote:
> People at the checkout who have 30+ items and don't let you go
> infront even though you've only got 2 and will be done in a
> flash.
I always let them go ahead =)
When we go shopping at Lidl's (the german supermarket, you guys might not know them). Some people get put off waiting behind us because we buy so much stuff. I always do this face ¬_¬ because I just chuck everything into the trolley as fast as possible. So while I'm loading up the car they're still waiting in line. The fools.
Really noisy ads on websites.
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