For when you just need others to say, "yeah, I hate that too!"

It's becoming a real pet peeve of mine when you walk into a store and someone shouts hello from 20 feet away... There's no sincerity to it, it's said monotone. They were just told that it's their job. And half the time, it's a security guard at the door (such as at Best Buy) and I get the feeling what they're trying to say is: "Hey, you! The guy who just walked in! I'm saying something to you to make you aware of the fact that there's security at this here door. Yessir, there is".

I make pretend I don't hear them.

If someone sincerely says a welcome or hi... because they happen to be near you, that's a whole different story than someone standing at the door who has been told to just say it to each person as they walk in. Half the time, I'm barely even with the doorway, as if they can't wait to get it done and over with.

Grumble-grumble. I know, I know... "Hey you kids, get off my lawn".

And all this time, I thought that they were just trying to project an image of being nice.

Totally agree. But I'd rather have an insincere "Hello," than be looking for a Home Center cart while the "greeter" is trying to sell me replacement windows...or anything.

It's as assaultive as having street people wash my windshiled @ NYC traffic lights.

And the next restaurant server who replies to a request with "No problem," is gonna get it. Unless they're Brazilian. And/or hot.

I have the same feelings regarding the "how are you?" greeting. 90% of the time the person asking couldn't care less. Depending on my mood, I may respond with "not well, I have hemorrhoids" or something similar.

I have one particular pet peeve that is definitely at the top of my list. It is when someone uses all the TP and doesn't bother to put a new roll on. I make sure to give them instructions on how to put a new roll on in a manor that will never forget.

You ARE from N'wingland, aren't you?

Sorry, but for that one we're gonna need details! (Camera phone shots would be helpful as well.)

And just how big is that "manor" ?

I agree with the "How are you" issue. Not a pet peeve, exactly, but it is annoying when it's insincere. Just say "Hello" or something else unless you really want to hear with some level of detail about how things are going for me.

I guess the things that come to mind for me are common grammar errors, like choosing the wrong option from your/you're, their/there/they're, base/bass, and to/too. It's/its is a little trickier, so I don't get as annoyed at those errors. But for the record, use the apostrophe for "It is", e.g. "It's too bad Michael has hemmorhoids," but not for the possessive, "The Preparation H has lost its potency."

I also can't help but notice certain misspelled words, e.g. separate. Remember, there's "a rat" in separate.

My pet peeve is threads where all people do is complain.

Left lane campers, rolling roadblocks, whatever you want to call them. For me, the most annoying and frustrating thing on the road.

Another one is people that ask you something, like a general question, or directions or something, and interrupt you with another question halfway through your answer.



Yes, and yes. With text messaging and what not it seems almost like people are using bad grammar on purpose.




Quit complainin' about us complainin'

Think of it more as, inventing reasons to have a beer at the end of the day.

My pet pieve is mispellars.

WHUT?

I have a problem with people who don't like to be told how to spell and write correctly. Honestly, I have no idea why people don't like being told they're morons.

The it's/its thing actually has a rule. Pronouns are made possessive by adding just an s, no apostrophe.

its
hers
theirs

The thing I dislike is the phrase, "pet peeve".

That's one thing we like about you!

People thinking they're cool walking around with an iPhone or iPod or bragging about said purchases.

I have pet peeves about:

a) people who have pet peeves about iPods or iPhones,

b) people who have pet peeves about people who have pet peeves about iPods or iPhones,

c) people who have pet peeves about people who have pet peeves about people who have pet peeves about iPods or iPhones,

d) and people who don't enjoy recursion.

Apologists are another pet peeve of my mine.

For a while at work, I was getting annoyed with people getting their garbage near the garbage cans, but not in it. Then they decided to show me just how good I had it by throwing their garbage away behind product on the shelves. Then they started just throwing their candy garbage on the ground, wherever they happened to be at the time in the storeroom. People having souls is a myth.

I'll bet we could agree on poorly recorded CDs and movies as a pet peeve.

In other news, I like puppies, baseball, and the good ol USA!

Ooh, I have to bust myself. My wife's pet peeve - well, one of them - about me is that I'll put dirty dishes in the sink, but not the dishwasher. I've tried to correct that and check if the dishwasher is ready to receive dirties. If so, into the dishwasher they go, and all is well. If not, then into the sink. I think the next pet peeve will be not emptying the dishwasher. I'm sure it'll be something.

Wow, this is a lot of medic8r heads in a row.

I think I'll have to change my avatar back to rainbow man, just for Ken and Sean.

How long can I carry on a conversation with myself?

I get kind of irritated some times when Mark isn't as funny or punctual as usual.

people who change their avatars too much.

OOps, interrupted by a sanity break from Tom and Peter.

- woww, 3700 posts.

In a row?

Wow, 3702 already. At this rate, I'll get free speakers by next week!

I can't stand it when people stand.

Good One Cam.

People who move to Arizona bringing their far left and right wing politics and 100+ different driving styles with them.

Libertarians w/o vehicles are always welcome.

It makes me want to leap across the counter and throttle the SOB while I'm screaming "I KNOW YOU SAW ME. I'M NOT A THIEF SO YOU CAN COOL YOUR JETS!!!"

You could get away with it, so why not do it?. You were in Vietnam. Shell shock, you know?

OOOOOO! I hadn't thought of that. An insanity plea!!! PTSD!

Jack, why don't you go ahead and call in that refill now, please.

Oh good. Then I can go back to having seizures while browsing the forum.

Move along, nothing to see here. I edited it!

Oh yeah, one of my pet peeves is people who don't put shopping carts in the cart corrals when they are done loading their cars. It really burns me up. I give a small pass to those that, at least, prop them up on curbs, but, really, they are just as lazy as the others that leave them to run free in the parking lot.

Too late! I read it and it was hilarious!

To bad I was at work and missed it. I had put in a disclaimer that it didn’t apply to you. But then I remembered that you always wear the militia patch.

It was a political joke, but I thought I'd better steer clear of those.

Isn't that the pet peeve of people born in Arizona?

Aw, c'mon! The cacti get lonely!

I lived in Cochise County. No, they do not get lonely. Morons who move near to them do.

They must spend a lot of time plucking needles from tender areas?

Pet Peeve words:

Ecscape
Nucular
Orientated
Aks
Incidentses
Artic
"I" when it should be "me"
and Vice Versa
Heighth
Impacted
Pro-Active
Vanella
So don't I
Concerted (when refering to one's own effort)
Irregardless
Historical (when it's "historic")
Expresso

You know! Everything that lives in the Sonora wants to hurt you.
And they're pretty good at it.

That’s why It’s my peeve.

Wow.... 54 replies in less than 24 hours.

You guys have quite the hidden anger, don't you?

OOOOOO! Dats another one that really burns me up. What REALLY gets me goin' is when carts are left in the stripped area between handicapped spots. I park in handicapped spots cuz I hafta, and I just love it when I can't open my car door to get out of my car because some IDIOT considers that striped area to be a cart return.

Problem is, most of those carts are left by handicapped IDIOTS who don't give a damn about anyone else and feel it's OK cuz they are handicapped. Since I enjoy the privilege of parking close to the building, I ALWAYS limp my cart back into the store. It's the least I can do.

I can understand those who are seriously hindered leaving the cart in the striped area. But, for pity's sake push it forward enough that it won't prevent the next seriously hindered person from opening their car door. DUH!!!!!

Whew! I feel much better.

Who's hiding it?


G'morning, my friend.

I would Tom, but JP has stopped taking my calls. Can't figure it out?????

Well, for one thing, he moved from Virginia to Alabama.

Hey, now, not Alabama, gimme a break.

I don't think we have any forum regulars in Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, Kentucky, or Tennessee.

The only Deep South folks I can think of are a401classic (LA), me (GA), audiosavant (GA), and Argon (NC). I consider the (Deep) South to be LA, MS, AL, GA, SC, NC.

I was born and raised in that county.... Sure has changed a lot in the past twenty years. I used to crawl all over "Cochise's Castle" and cool off the horses in his well when I was a kid.

LOL!

Another one for me is people that "argue" by saying the same thing over and over and over again... Just watch an episode of Maury .

Yeah, my Philosophy 101 professor in college said that in his first class with us. It's not arguing or debating if you keep saying the same thing over and over. Even if you raise you voice as you go.

Gad, sorry about that JP. My brain substituted Alabama for Atlanta. Which apparently isn't right, either. gwaaaaaah...

Doesn't matter where he is. He's still not taking my calls.

All's I know, is he never sent me an invite to the Masters. Pfffttt.

On topic, I've had the landscapers/maintenance guys for the properties on both sides of me blow leaves off their parking lots, onto my lawn in the Fall (or sand, with a Spring cleanup).

Short of me having the discussion with them again while I have a 9mm holstered, how do you get some people to understand that blowing stuff off of their property, onto yours, is f**king obnoxious and infuriating?

I think the 9 , holding a fifth of jack, spitting chew and a half grown in beard should do it .. while in your underwear.

Boxers or briefs? I want to get it right...!

well jack or a mason jar .. and I'd go with briefs

and definately unholster the 9.

I dunno, briefs with a shoulder holster might do the trick.

Shoulder holster is too formal, perhaps Mark should tuck his 9mm(:::snicker:::) in his pants.

Only the .357 would be appropriate then... all things being equal...

Oh, I thought they called you "Tripod" because you were a photographer. My mistake.

I say use bigger guns (not talking about either of the 9mm previously discussed above.)

Rent about a half dozen swamp boats for next time they are around. Set them Very securely on your lawn facing the leaf blowing crew and have them rigged to all turn on and throttle up at the same time as soon as you see them fire up the leaf blowers.

Dueling Leaf Blowers. Kind of like "Deliverance" for the suburbs.

"That's nawt a leaf Blowahh! THIS!! is a LEAF BLOWAHH!!"

I've long lobbied for noise seeking missiles. It would solve a lot of problems.

Of course, they would probably turn around and obliterate my kids' room.

I have another one. The people where I work call my patients by "Mister (First name)" or "Miss (First name)".

Example: "Here's Mr. John, Doctor," or "Miss Stephanie needs a refill."

I refuse to succumb to this odd local dialect. I'm still calling patients "Mr. (Last name)" or, only if I know them well, by their first names without the Mr/Miss thing.

I hear you Mr. JP.

Ken, I need to borrow your knife.

Thanks.

Stabbity stabbity stabbity!

Wasn't there a group named "Mister Mister" in the 80's? Not sure how you would address them?

Messrs. Mister Mister, how y'all doin?

Harumph.

While driving and listening to the radio I don't like it when commercials feature the sounds of honking horns and/or squealing tires.

"The screachin' tires, the bustin' glass,
The painful screams that I heard last."

Ya, know Eddie, that was a crappy song when it was new, and you didn't change that. What are ya gonna cover next, "Teen Angel," or how 'bout "DOA," by Bloodrock?

Sorry, Sean. Sunday morning stream of consciousness.

Sean, that's been a pet peeve of mine as well for years. Even more- sirens!

Exactly, Mark! It's those types of sounds I don't need to be confused about hearing while I'm driving.

I agree with that picture, but there are limits. If I see you in my rearview mirror shifting lanes like an idiot just so you can maintain your 15+ mph over the speed limit, I will most likely accelerate or change lanes to cut off your planned route when you get close to me.

Give 'em hell Peter, you crazy rebel.

Great picture Sonic!

I don't have a problem, in any way, with you doing that. However, I approach it a little differently. I quickly move out my way to let that idiot get past me. I view him as a cop magnet. I figure the cop will be busy ticketing him as I go by, unnoticed, at my 5-10 mph over the speed limit pace.

Great graphic, Mary. Now come up with one that explains how the on ramp enables you to get up to freeway speeds BEFORE you join the freeway. I am so weary of being forced to enter a freeway at 40 mph cuz the idiot entering ahead of me thinks, mistakenly, it is safer to to merge with freeway traffic while going 20 mph slower than the traffic.

Yeah, letting them take point saves ME from tickets!

Once I was with a friend who drove by a highway patrol officer who had someone pulled over. He waved his hand at her, gesturing her to pull over too. She started laughing..."I'm so sure! I'm not pulling over for THAT. He's gonna have to come get me." Sure enough, a mile later, he was behind her. When asked how he could prove she was speeding. he pointed to the sky. Those freaking police planes! LOL!

I hate coffee or restaurant drive-throughs when they ask "Would like a 'soandso' with that today?" or "will that be all today?"

Until they invent time travel, adding "today" is redundant!!!!

"No! That's not all I want Today! I'll be back later, thank you!"

I'm with you, especially the restaurant drive throughs. I have my order all composed in my head and then they start throwing out suggestions that make me forget what I want.

An old pet peeve, recently re-annoying: Screw-on F connectors on RG8 when the connection point is tight, difficult to get to and you don't have a tool to use.

Wow, did I just open myself up with straight lines....

So many openings..... Just can't choose.....

I've never counted more than three.




[NOTE: I feel so icky now.]

Yamaha is having a sweepstakes to give away a receiver. The instructions say, "Once you click the Enter tab above....", If you can find the enter tab, you are doing a whole lot better than I am. (They may fix it on this link sometime soon, so it might make me look like a dummy, but for now I can't find an enter tab.)

Clicky

Update: You have to Like them first, THEN the enter tab shows up. Geesh!

Wow....I dint know anybody else remembered Bloodrock - let alone DOA....

I was behind a car on I-40 in the fast lane and we came up on a good ol' NC Trooper riding in the slow lane. I pulled in behind the Trooper - the other car stayed in the fast lane. The Trooper was going 60 in a 55. We rode like that for 5 or 6 miles and then the other car sped up and passed the Trooper. He pulled over into the slow lane right in front of the Trooper. 2 seconds later, the Blue Lights came on.....so my pet peeve is all the idiots that have driver's licenses....

I used to have their albums. Another bloodrock song I remember liking was Jessica. Thanks for the memories. I had forgotten about them.

Brian: You should not, in a single day, reveal that you put your head into a tornado, lust after ELP videos, or that you actually bought Bloodrock.

Got any Sugarloaf?

Sorry, no Sugarloaf. But I used to have some Russian opera. Does that count?

5 registered, 39 guests, 2 spiders and a stalker ?

The scissor-proof plastic packaging material along with those peel-proof stickers on CDs and DVDs!

Anybody stalking me would get so bored, they'd forget why they were stalking me.

So I'm looking at this list and wondering why "It's a mute point" is missing.

And why does ANYTHING follow the phrase - "It goes without saying...".

"I could care less".......

?#1: "Cause I never make fun of the deaf when they're gesticulating.

?#2: Where I grew up that translates to "It says without going..." (So I goes to her, "You..." Then she goes, "...."

Wellness. Where in the h*ll did that word come from and can anyone please tell me the difference between health and wellness?

Wellness incorporates the crunchy granola-eating, yoga-posing, herbal-ingesting/inhaling, Eastern medicine-loving crowd's concept of metaphysical health.

My 2˘.

FWIW, I like granola, yoga, herbs, and Eastern medicine. I just try not to be too precious about it. Everything in moderation, ya know.

Wellness includes mental state, I think. You can be healthy as an ox at the same time as you're suffering from depression, but you wouldn't have wellness.

I'll take wellness over wellless, any day.

I'm feeling quite wellful today.

Well, isn't that special!

Your explanation makes sense.

More pet peeve words:

"Affect" when it should be "effect" - and vice versa.

"Bring" when it should be "take". Vice versa doesn't usually happen here.

"Proctologist" for many reasons, including the fact that they chose to be one on purpose.

I respectfully disagree. To me, health is health. You can break that down into physical, mental, emotional, etc., but if you're healthy, you're healthy.

The Free Dictionary
Health: 1. The overall condition of an organism at a given time.
Wellness: The state of being in good physical and mental health

Merriam-Webster
Health: The condition of being sound in body, mind, or spirit
Wellness: The quality or state of being in good health especially as an actively sought goal.

Unnecessarily Redundant, IMHO.

i agree with Ajax, health is health.

physical, mental, emotional, etc... it's all different facets of a person.
the often used word "individual" means "that cannot be divided".
if one facet of an individual is not in good health, the other facets will suffer from it and will also not be in good health.

why is it that people who suffer from high stress have ailments like stomach burns?

an individual, or person, is a whole, even in death: the whole person ceases to exist at the moment of death; if anyone thinks or knows otherwise, i want to see proof. This means it's not even open to discussion.

Cool, Jack!!

Ask a rhetorical question, let 'em all have their shots, then thwap 'em with not one, but two dictionary definitions!

You rock! (I already knew that.)

No animosity here. Just trying to make my point. Most of the time I'm fine with folks seeing things differently, particularly two good folks like Peter and J.P.

There are plenty of discussions of health versus wellness online if you look past dictionary definitions. Even if they meant exactly the same thing, though, I'm fine with having more words to have in the bag. Sometimes you want something different phonetically in your phrasing, right?

Wellness: Adj, a state of being

On the home farm we had 3 wells. I was awash in a wealth of wellness.

I think there's a difference in those two definitions when you consider a person with a physical disability, like myself.

Health: 1. The overall condition of an organism at a given time.

Overall, as a quadriplegic, I'm healthy.

Wellness: The state of being in good physical and mental health

Physically, I'm disabled, and as a result, my body doesn't function normally (good health), but my mind does.


I also think this definition is deleterious because someone with downs syndrome can, and do, have wellness.

The lexicographers should take a course in SRV (Social Role Valorization).

My 2 cents.

I'm glad you clarified what SRV stood for before people steered the thread toward Stevie Ray Vaughan.

Good points, though, Cam.

I knew that , too!

Well, well, well.

ness, ness, ness. YAY TEAM!

Um...

Lutefisk Lutefisk Lefse Lefse
We're the Mighty Lutes
Ya Sure You Betcha!

(from my alma mater, Norwegian-founded Pacific Lutheran University)

That sounds like a Betty White line from "Golden Girls."

And I'm making a "Bea Arthur" face right now.

Why must you be mean to us, Bob?

I wasn't being mean. I was being old and ugly (and of late, quite dead).

Shoot, I've been the the first two for years and am rapidly working on the latter .

But your online spirit here is endless Jack, Bob. You will live here forever until the Internet is replaced with tainted water mill powered telegraph poles after the nuclear apocalypse.

Dude, you're harshing me this morning.....

Sorry Bud.
Maybe this will help.

It does! Thanks!