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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
*
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.
*
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.
*
And that's how for now, kids
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Hedfix wrote:
> Really noisy ads on websites.
Does it make a loud buzzing sound =)
> Really noisy ads on websites.
Does it make a loud buzzing sound =)
Machie wrote:
> Hedfix wrote:
> Really noisy ads on websites.
>
> Does it make a loud buzzing sound =)
Yeah, that one. I'm trying to look up lyrics while listening to a song and it drives me nuts.
> Hedfix wrote:
> Really noisy ads on websites.
>
> Does it make a loud buzzing sound =)
Yeah, that one. I'm trying to look up lyrics while listening to a song and it drives me nuts.
No the loud Ghost Recon 2 one on, usually quiet, gaming sites at the moment. But there are others.
It's the most annoying ad I've ever come across, I'm suprised they still use it.
Machie wrote:
> Green = Cheese and Onion
> Blue = Salt and Vinegar
>
> When will they learn =(
No way, a sensible decision on the part of Walkers to put cheese and onion in blue in my opinion.
Anyway, be thankful you can even buy cheese and onion crisps, shocking selection of crisps in america. :-(
I could manage a whole thread of pet peeves of america I guess. :P
> Green = Cheese and Onion
> Blue = Salt and Vinegar
>
> When will they learn =(
No way, a sensible decision on the part of Walkers to put cheese and onion in blue in my opinion.
Anyway, be thankful you can even buy cheese and onion crisps, shocking selection of crisps in america. :-(
I could manage a whole thread of pet peeves of america I guess. :P
Garin wrote:
> No way, a sensible decision on the part of Walkers to put cheese
> and onion in blue in my opinion.
It just tricks people into eating Salt and Vinegar. Prawn Cocktail should always be pink. Do they have that flavour in America?
> Anyway, be thankful you can even buy cheese and onion crisps,
> shocking selection of crisps in america. :-(
> I could manage a whole thread of pet peeves of america I
> guess. :P
They call them chips =) and they come in huge giant bags that would take months to finish off. You should do this 'pet peeves of america' thread. Just be prepared ready for Kawada, nobody knocks his country and gets a way with it. Except me. Stupid yanks, how could they elect Bush again >_<
> No way, a sensible decision on the part of Walkers to put cheese
> and onion in blue in my opinion.
It just tricks people into eating Salt and Vinegar. Prawn Cocktail should always be pink. Do they have that flavour in America?
> Anyway, be thankful you can even buy cheese and onion crisps,
> shocking selection of crisps in america. :-(
> I could manage a whole thread of pet peeves of america I
> guess. :P
They call them chips =) and they come in huge giant bags that would take months to finish off. You should do this 'pet peeves of america' thread. Just be prepared ready for Kawada, nobody knocks his country and gets a way with it. Except me. Stupid yanks, how could they elect Bush again >_<
People who can't read deserve to get the wrong bag of crisps. :D
Machie wrote:
> It just tricks people into eating Salt and Vinegar. Prawn
> Cocktail should always be pink. Do they have that flavour in
> America?
Not seen Prawn Cocktail yet, too much to hope for I imagine.
I'm reliably informed the lack of choice is because they prefer dips with their crisps(chips). We bought a family bag thing last week, 24 packets in there. Over half the packets were plain, the rest were cheese apart from 3 packets of doritos cool ranch.
Its a crisp wilderness out here.
> It just tricks people into eating Salt and Vinegar. Prawn
> Cocktail should always be pink. Do they have that flavour in
> America?
Not seen Prawn Cocktail yet, too much to hope for I imagine.
I'm reliably informed the lack of choice is because they prefer dips with their crisps(chips). We bought a family bag thing last week, 24 packets in there. Over half the packets were plain, the rest were cheese apart from 3 packets of doritos cool ranch.
Its a crisp wilderness out here.
Garin wrote:
> Not seen Prawn Cocktail yet, too much to hope for I imagine.
> I'm reliably informed the lack of choice is because they prefer
> dips with their crisps(chips). We bought a family bag thing
> last week, 24 packets in there. Over half the packets were
> plain, the rest were cheese apart from 3 packets of doritos cool
> ranch.
>
> Its a crisp wilderness out here.
Blimey, I had no idea, Kawada never said anything. Dips are nice but I need more flavours. =) Especially when I put them into a sandwich.
I think Texas is the fattest State in America. Have you seen enough proof to verify that claim?
> Not seen Prawn Cocktail yet, too much to hope for I imagine.
> I'm reliably informed the lack of choice is because they prefer
> dips with their crisps(chips). We bought a family bag thing
> last week, 24 packets in there. Over half the packets were
> plain, the rest were cheese apart from 3 packets of doritos cool
> ranch.
>
> Its a crisp wilderness out here.
Blimey, I had no idea, Kawada never said anything. Dips are nice but I need more flavours. =) Especially when I put them into a sandwich.
I think Texas is the fattest State in America. Have you seen enough proof to verify that claim?
Machie wrote:
> I think Texas is the fattest State in America. Have you seen
> enough proof to verify that claim?
No, I'd believe it has the most trucks/SUVs in america though. :)
I've been very surprised about the food situation actually. Its so much easier to eat healthily than in the UK.
> I think Texas is the fattest State in America. Have you seen
> enough proof to verify that claim?
No, I'd believe it has the most trucks/SUVs in america though. :)
I've been very surprised about the food situation actually. Its so much easier to eat healthily than in the UK.
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