Pet Peeves, yo.

[LadyLuna]

yah I am hating hard right now. Not for your plainly wrong wrong wrong easter egg eating ways , but because you just referred to six types of chocolate I do not have in front of me right now. Oh woe.

I only have access to the creme eggs, so here's a recipe someone sent me sometime last year...
Please forgive me?

 

[AmberCutie]

I should've done that with the cadbury mini candy-coated eggs too x.x Love those damn things. Wish they came in single-serving packages so I could just stick a bunch in the freezer like that.

Target has (had) single serving Cadbury Mini Egg packets. I only know this because they're my favorite chocolate candies ever and I got some last month. Actually, I had 3 packs of the single servings in my hand at the checkout, then noticed the HUGE bag and decided to go big. :mrgreen:

 

[emptiedglass]

Totally nitpicky thing on my part, but when a person is trying to emphasize a word, but puts multiple of the wrong vowel.

Example - acceptable: Oh my I so very much LOOOOVE chocolate chip cookies!
Example - peevy way: Oh my I so very much LOVEEEEE chocolate chip cookies!

You lovey them? LOVEEEE doesn't sound like "LOVE".

I cringe, too, when I see stuff like that.
Things like text messaging and Twitter are rapidly destroying the English language as we know it.

 

[LilyMarie]

Slow people. Maybe I'm too LA. But people that walk slow, talk slow, carry on for hours. OMG. Seriously, life is short. Hurry the fuck up!!!!

Same here! I live in a big tourist-heavy city and when people in the shopping streets are being absolute snails who have to stop and look around and window-shop every couple of feet, I get cranky. I usually know where I want to go and where everything is so I often run into them.
And then I feel guilty, especially when they're old people or families. :?

We recently had this topic in our pondering thread in the models only section...
People who put their bag on the seat next to them so no one can sit there, even when the bus/train is filled with people. How do you guys handle that? Do you say something? I'm always too nervous, and if I do say something and they take their bag away, I'm scared while I'm sitting next to them...

 

[amberleaf]

My main pet peeve is a generally accepted thing but I HATE it... men scratching their nuts in front of me. Quick hand down pants, no-one will notice--

WELL I NOTICE! /caps bb

I notice a lot. Not because I'm looking for it happening.

 

[southsamurai]

We recently had this topic in our pondering thread in the models only section...
People who put their bag on the seat next to them so no one can sit there, even when the bus/train is filled with people. How do you guys handle that? Do you say something? I'm always too nervous, and if I do say something and they take their bag away, I'm scared while I'm sitting next to them...

my crippled ass stumps up to them on my cane and says "i need to sit or im going to fall down and piss myself" and stare at them til they move it lol. only failed to work once at a doctor's office and she just stared back at me and smiled. waited for a bit then said. "no" and picked her magazine back up. i laughed so hard i did fall down lol

 

[Anonymous]

My main pet peeve is a generally accepted thing but I HATE it... men scratching their nuts in front of me. Quick hand down pants, no-one will notice--

I was in the waiting room of a doctor's office with my son, and some guy sat down next to us and had his hand inside his jeans...WTF?

 

[Anonymous]

*Playing phone tag with people - you call them and get the voicemail, they call you back at the moment you happen to be away from your phone, and they get your voicemail.....

*Fast food restaurants being stingy with their packets of Sweet and Sour sauce. 1 or 2 packets is not enough for 20-piece nuggets.

 

[driverxtc]

waiting for nothing

 

[Anonymous]

When I'm singing and really getting into the song that I'm singing (let's say, Sarah McLachlan's "Angel"), and then someone interrupts me to ask "Did you get the mail?" WTF? I was on a roll, and now I gotta start over.....

 

[HarmlessSquirrel]

I think some people on Twitter get a tad carried away with the retweet button. Sometimes it gets to the point where I want to respond "Uh...you really thought my insignificant, 'just-making-conversation' post was retweet-worthy? And who are you?" LOL.

Retweeting "I'm on cam! Come celebrate my birthday with me!" makes sense.
Retweeting "I'm eating a yummy cheeseburger." is odd.

(The above is quoted from another thread because I figured my post belongs in this one.)

In short, yes, I agree many retweets are silly. In particular ...

If I follow a model on Twitter, obviously I'm okay with getting her promotional tweets. What irks me is this: there are some "promoters" (don't know whether they get paid or just get off on being involved with the models somehow) who retweet model tweets like this, after which some models retweet the promoter tweet. Added to this, some fans (that I may be following because I know them from the model's room) of the model will retweet one or both of the model and promoter tweets. Sometimes I get the same information tweeted to me 5 or 6 times. If I'm following the model, I got it the first time. If I'm not following the model, I'm probably not going to become interested in her based on a random tweet. Argh.

 

[Anonymous]

There are some "promoters" (don't know whether they get paid or just get off on being involved with the models somehow) who retweet model tweets like this, after which some models retweet the promoter tweet. Added to this, some fans (that I may be following because I know them from the model's room) of the model will retweet one or both of the model and promoter tweets. Sometimes I get the same information tweeted to me 5 or 6 times.

This annoys me so much. And this happens with that #FollowFriday thing too:

CamGirlFan tweets: #FollowFriday. Check out these awesome cam girls! @KellyKapowski @LisaTurtle @Jessie Spano @MarciaBrady @JanBrady @CindyBrady @yummybrownfox

And then when Cindy Brady clicks the 'Reply' button to say "Thanks!" to CamGirlFan, her post is also sent to me and the other 5 models from the original tweet. Same thing happens when Kelly Kapowski, Lisa Turtle, Jessie Spano, Marcia Brady, and Jan Brady tell CamGirlFan "Thanks!" What each cam girl should do is click 'Reply' and delete the other 6 names out of the tweet, so those 6 ladies aren't getting a bunch of tweets.

*bonus points if you know who Kelly Kapowski, Lisa Turtle, and Jessie Spano are...without using Google. LOL!*

By the way, I have to keep mobile notifications on, because my cell phone is the only way I receive tweets from the people I don't follow. If a person I don't follow tweets me, it will not show up on my Twitter timeline on the computer. It will only show up on my cell phone.

 

[AmberCutie]

Saved by the Bell.

Also, should try Tweetdeck.

https://web.tweetdeck.com/

I don't have the issue where people I don't follow and tweet me get hidden. I see it all, bb.

 

[JerryBoBerry]

Saved by the Bell.

Also, should try Tweetdeck.

https://web.tweetdeck.com/

I don't have the issue where people I don't follow and tweet me get hidden. I see it all, bb.

I'll second that. Tweetdeck has the awesome ability to have columns for each persons tweets you want to see specifically. But you can also set a column to show any 'mentions' that person has, yourself included. So you'll always see any new ones about yourself that way. Also it's much easier to catch up on all the tweets of any person you want. I'm currently at 43 columns, makes it very organized.

Seesmic use to do this as well but they recently were acquired by hootsuite and I haven't signed up with them again to find out if there's been any changes.

 

[AmberCutie]

Saved by the Bell.

Also, should try Tweetdeck.

https://web.tweetdeck.com/

I don't have the issue where people I don't follow and tweet me get hidden. I see it all, bb.

I'll second that. Tweetdeck has the awesome ability to have columns for each persons tweets you want to see specifically. But you can also set a column to show any 'mentions' that person has, yourself included. So you'll always see any new ones about yourself that way. Also it's much easier to catch up on all the tweets of any person you want. I'm currently at 43 columns, makes it very organized.

Seesmic use to do this as well but they recently were acquired by hootsuite and I haven't signed up with them again to find out if there's been any changes.

43 columns? Whoa!! I think I'm at about 15.

And yeah, Tweetdeck allows you to closely follow someone without even... following them, heh. They can't see that I have a column for them, and I am not on their follower list, so I can read what a person is up to without them knowing.

Edit: I have 23 columns, lol.

Oh I forgot to mention: being able to add a column for a hashtag, like say #MFCFail is very helpful. First thing I do when MFC is having issues is check for other people using that hashtag in the column I've created.

 

[Anonymous]

Also, should try Tweetdeck.

https://web.tweetdeck.com/

I don't have the issue where people I don't follow and tweet me get hidden. I see it all, bb.

I just signed up. Thanks!

 

[Just Me]

On May 7th Twitter is pulling the plug on Tweetdeck for android and iphone.

http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/t...ll-plug-tweetdeck-android-ios-may-7-6C9539403

 

[Rose]

Breakfast cereal. :angry4: No matter what kind you eat or what you eat or drink afterwards it ALWAYS leaves that nasty after taste and then makes your breath reek. Cheerios are one of the worst offenders too. Whenever I eat cereal, practically every day, I have to brush my teeth before and after I eat it and then I have to drink orange juice or eat a giant apple to get rid of the icky after taste. I love cereal but can't stand stinky breath or that nasty stale taste. Yuck! :-x

 

[Nordling]

Breakfast cereal. :angry4: No matter what kind you eat or what you eat or drink afterwards it ALWAYS leaves that nasty after taste and then makes your breath reek. Cheerios are one of the worst offenders too. Whenever I eat cereal, practically every day, I have to brush my teeth before and after I eat it and then I have to drink orange juice or eat a giant apple to get rid of the icky after taste. I love cereal but can't stand stinky breath or that nasty stale taste. Yuck! :-x

Ha! I know what you mean, especially with Cheerios. However, I LOVE the aftertaste of Wheat Chex.

 

[Bocefish]

When politicians and talking heads reduce our courageous men and women in the military down to the phrase ''boots on the ground.'' Especially the desk jockey, paper pushing politicians that never served a day in their life.

 

[Brad]

When someone who has never ever spent a dime at my shop calls and wants to know if I have a part in stock but doesn't even know the model number of their equipment. (power tools, nailers, staplers, generators, compressors, etc.) It's bad enough that they spend their money buying everything from my competition (Home Depot, Lowes, etc) but at least have the courtesy to have the needed info handy when you call. Most all of the parts diagrams are online so I can't type "it's a red one" into the fucking search box and get the needed result! And NO, there is no standard and they don't only make one model!
:angry4:

 

[dilligaf0]

On the news channels, the new favorite phrase is "tick-tock" instead of "timeline". What the F@#$? are we in grade school and need this dumbed down for us. I want to bitch slap the morons.

 

[JerryBoBerry]

On the news channels, the new favorite phrase is "tick-tock" instead of "timeline". What the F@#$? are we in grade school and need this dumbed down for us. I want to bitch slap the morons.

I had to stop watching television news years ago. They started making cute little banter and having far too many fluff pieces and not actually covering any news at all in a half hour they were on. Some markets had a 5pm and a 6pm news show and still managed to say nothing. Looking online at original sources like AP, BBC, RT, foreign newspapers and a ton of other sources from around the world I would always see major events taking place all over the world. Some of them would be about news happening right here in the U.S. and it was being covered by foreign news. Yet at the same time the top news on TV here would be about a cat that walked 200 miles back to its owners. Nice story but it's not fucking news. I had to ban all American TV news just to keep my sanity.

Honestly just having a few simple apps on my tablet that gather news from various sources I would say I'm better informed about news from all around the world (including my own backyard) NOW than I ever was watching television news programs. Their only purpose for being on is ratings now, which they can only do by delivering cute or sensational stories that are rarely newsworthy. They completely suck at the job of delivering news!

 

[LuckySmiles]

On the news channels, the new favorite phrase is "tick-tock" instead of "timeline". What the F@#$? are we in grade school and need this dumbed down for us. I want to bitch slap the morons.

I had to stop watching television news years ago. They started making cute little banter and having far too many fluff pieces and not actually covering any news at all in a half hour they were on. Some markets had a 5pm and a 6pm news show and still managed to say nothing. Looking online at original sources like AP, BBC, RT, foreign newspapers and a ton of other sources from around the world I would always see major events taking place all over the world. Some of them would be about news happening right here in the U.S. and it was being covered by foreign news. Yet at the same time the top news on TV here would be about a cat that walked 200 miles back to its owners. Nice story but it's not fucking news. I had to ban all American TV news just to keep my sanity.

Honestly just having a few simple apps on my tablet that gather news from various sources I would say I'm better informed about news from all around the world (including my own backyard) NOW than I ever was watching television news programs. Their only purpose for being on is ratings now, which they can only do by delivering cute or sensational stories that are rarely newsworthy. They completely suck at the job of delivering news!

Just to add to this, and still in keeping with the thread... Youtubers who's crazy cat/baby/kiddie video went viral, being interviewed on the morning news. Oh. Ok. That's important... Anyone know what's going on in Syria? No! but did you see the one with the kitten AND the baby AND the singing dad? genius!

 

[Sevrin]

RT

Russia Today is basically the Russian version of Voice of America. The Russian government spends a lot of money to make RT available on American basic cable in a lot of markets. Their primary purpose is to make the U.S. look bad, or at least as bad as U.S. media makes Russia look. That's not to say that they don't sometimes get things right, but they do offer a platform for a lot of people who hate the U.S. They are also pretty nice to Russia's friends. You won't, for instance, find a lot of negative coverage of the Syrian government on RT.

RT offers a very different perspective from U.S. media outlets, and I visit pretty often, but you have to remember that they work for Putin.

 

[JerryBoBerry]

Natural Gas Reservoir Engineering course. We had to do a TEAM powerpoint presentation. I ended up reading two complete books on our subject and created the entire 25 minute slideshow myself. Even wrote down what the other 4 members of the team could say for each slide, which they didn't bother memorizing. They just read off notecards while they were in front of the class. After the presentation there were several questions of which I was the only one in the team who could answer them. Just found out I got the lowest grade of the 5 members in my team.

It's not a speech class, yet that's all she graded it on; how well did you speak in front of the class. And even that perplexes me. Since I was the only one in the entire class who didn't use note cards at all, I actually had everything memorized.

That teacher sent out emails asking us to do Performance Reviews. Oh, she'll be getting a review. She will! :angry4: :evil: :-x rotest: :angry-banghead: :angry-cussing: :angry-cussingblack: :angry-fire: :angry-teeth: :angry-tappingfoot: :violence-ak47: :violence-chainsaw: :violence-bowandarrow: :violence-fencing: :violence-enforcer: :violence-flak: :violence-glob: :violence-hammer: :violence-minigun: :violence-pistoldouble: :violence-plasma: :violence-rambo: :violence-sniperprone: :violence-sniperdark: :violence-torch: :violence-uzi: :whdat: :whax: :violence-rocket: :violence-instagib:

 

[pg240]

Overuse of certain phrases tend to get under my skin. Right now it's this: "At the end of the day." Everything referencing the future now tends to be coming at the end of the goddamned day!

 

[Protocosmo]

When I spend more time looking for that one crucial tool or part than I take actually doing what I set out to do.

 

[LaylaLovegood]

Chewing loudly
Story toppers
People who play victim to everything! I have no sympathy for people like this. Unless its something serious then of course I would. Example -- Someone gets in a little fender bender and talks about it for years as if it was something terribly traumatic that changed their life.
Also people who constantly complain about their situation when they are capable of changing it. Example -- Someone that always complains about being broke and not being able to pay bills and yet they go out to eat every night.

 

[Jessi]

Slow people. Maybe I'm too LA. But people that walk slow, talk slow, carry on for hours. OMG. Seriously, life is short. Hurry the fuck up!!!!

Same here! I live in a big tourist-heavy city and when people in the shopping streets are being absolute snails who have to stop and look around and window-shop every couple of feet, I get cranky. I usually know where I want to go and where everything is so I often run into them.
And then I feel guilty, especially when they're old people or families. :?

We recently had this topic in our pondering thread in the models only section...
People who put their bag on the seat next to them so no one can sit there, even when the bus/train is filled with people. How do you guys handle that? Do you say something? I'm always too nervous, and if I do say something and they take their bag away, I'm scared while I'm sitting next to them...

FUCK TOURISTS. SERIOUSLY, ITS THE BUSIEST STREET IN THIS PART OF THE COUNTRY, YOU DO NOT GET TO FUCKING HANG OUT IN FRONT OF THIS DOORWAY. Thousands of people are literally trying to pass you my god!!!!