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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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I'm sorry to interrupt your crisp discussion guys, but..
Stupid lecturers.
I am taught Java by one.
I can't be bothered to rant too much, but I face quite a few hours now of doing some work which is 100% uneducational (writing a logbook about work I completed months/weeks ago) so I can add some part of 20 to my mark . If we could just email our source code to her as proof we understood the exercises, then that'd be fine. But no, for some reason, we're supposed to spend an hour a week writing into a logbook which somehow proves we are competent Java programmers. Why?
We're also supposed to be recording errors, and how we got around them, and such. Anyone who's ever done any coding knows that errors are frequent and 99% of the time, completely trivial. Recording every single error you encounter and its fix is a pretty big and stupid and 99% pointless task.
And that's another point. Source code. What on earth can lecturers possibly gain from 20 pages of paper? I don't get it, are they going to type it all up or something?
Stupid lecturers.
I am taught Java by one.
I can't be bothered to rant too much, but I face quite a few hours now of doing some work which is 100% uneducational (writing a logbook about work I completed months/weeks ago) so I can add some part of 20 to my mark . If we could just email our source code to her as proof we understood the exercises, then that'd be fine. But no, for some reason, we're supposed to spend an hour a week writing into a logbook which somehow proves we are competent Java programmers. Why?
We're also supposed to be recording errors, and how we got around them, and such. Anyone who's ever done any coding knows that errors are frequent and 99% of the time, completely trivial. Recording every single error you encounter and its fix is a pretty big and stupid and 99% pointless task.
And that's another point. Source code. What on earth can lecturers possibly gain from 20 pages of paper? I don't get it, are they going to type it all up or something?
Bob_The_Moose wrote:
> Stupid lecturers.
>
> I am taught Java by one.
I remember at university we had to do a C++ module. For reasons I've never fathomed they decided not to assign a lecturer to teach the course but rather one of the tech support people. Total disaster from start to finish. Nobody had a clue what he was trying to teach, I already knew C++ and I was just left confused by him too.
The final exam was quite remarkable in that it didnt require us to write a single line of code. I think the average mark was somewhere in the 20s and they were forced to pass most people anyway because of the complaints. :)
> Stupid lecturers.
>
> I am taught Java by one.
I remember at university we had to do a C++ module. For reasons I've never fathomed they decided not to assign a lecturer to teach the course but rather one of the tech support people. Total disaster from start to finish. Nobody had a clue what he was trying to teach, I already knew C++ and I was just left confused by him too.
The final exam was quite remarkable in that it didnt require us to write a single line of code. I think the average mark was somewhere in the 20s and they were forced to pass most people anyway because of the complaints. :)
Bob_The_Moose wrote:
> We're also supposed to be recording errors, and how we got
> around them, and such. Anyone who's ever done any coding knows
> that errors are frequent and 99% of the time, completely
> trivial. Recording every single error you encounter and its fix
> is a pretty big and stupid and 99% pointless task.
This sort of nonsense comes at every level of this sort of thing, even mine considerably below yours... I'm getting rather annoyed at the triviality of my A2 ICT Coursework. I must have spent three times as long typing pointless crap as I have struggling with my limited knowledge of MS Access.
In fact, A-Level ICT is a real "Pet Peeve". Not only is it horrible to study, but the exam board took 25% of the marks off my coursework last year, downgrading it from A to C, and my overall grade from B to C. 50% average marks nationally thanks to "The Press" and qualifications being made easier... thanks a bunch, now I'll have to work like a dog to get the B grade I need.
> We're also supposed to be recording errors, and how we got
> around them, and such. Anyone who's ever done any coding knows
> that errors are frequent and 99% of the time, completely
> trivial. Recording every single error you encounter and its fix
> is a pretty big and stupid and 99% pointless task.
This sort of nonsense comes at every level of this sort of thing, even mine considerably below yours... I'm getting rather annoyed at the triviality of my A2 ICT Coursework. I must have spent three times as long typing pointless crap as I have struggling with my limited knowledge of MS Access.
In fact, A-Level ICT is a real "Pet Peeve". Not only is it horrible to study, but the exam board took 25% of the marks off my coursework last year, downgrading it from A to C, and my overall grade from B to C. 50% average marks nationally thanks to "The Press" and qualifications being made easier... thanks a bunch, now I'll have to work like a dog to get the B grade I need.
Button flys.
I curse their inventor.......
I curse their inventor.......
Film 4 trumpeting about how they show quality films who then go and put Ghosts of Mars on twice in a week. Oh and Pirahna because that's a 'classic' because it has a cheesy script.
Great...
Great...
Do you know what I hate? American TV scheduling. It's like every other week one of my favourite shows isnt on for some reason. No wonder 100s of shows are cancelled in America each year. They keep smegging with the scheduling.
Bloody Peekvid
I swear everytime I get about halfway through a movie, when I try and open the next part it fails. I can reload, refresh, exit and go back but nothing works. Grr
I swear everytime I get about halfway through a movie, when I try and open the next part it fails. I can reload, refresh, exit and go back but nothing works. Grr
I hate it when there are 3 hours to call bingo numbers but the stupid system calls 3 of those 5 in the last 13 minutes.
I dont know whether i've mentioned this before but
People who cut across you while you're walking or who are walking infront and then suddenly stop
Usually i'm pretty fleet-footed so i can avoid having to stop if people get in my way but i wasn't with it today, so i ended up getting quite annoyed with how many times i had to do it. It's inconsiderate you a***s! Watch where you're bloody going!
People who cut across you while you're walking or who are walking infront and then suddenly stop
Usually i'm pretty fleet-footed so i can avoid having to stop if people get in my way but i wasn't with it today, so i ended up getting quite annoyed with how many times i had to do it. It's inconsiderate you a***s! Watch where you're bloody going!
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