Pet Peeves

[impressive]

Okay, what really pushes your buttons?

I just cracked a new book (Arousal: The Secret Logic of Sexual Fantasies) and I am so turned off by the introduction that I doubt I'll get past it. The author repeatedly uses the word "unconscious" instead of "subconscious." Drives me bat fucking bananas.

WTF are "unconscious desires" anyway? The kind you have when you're in a coma?

 

[TheEarl]

An unconscious desire sounds like someone who gets their rocks off by being bludgeoned with blunt objects.

My pet peeve is people telling me I can't have an opinion on a certain subject because I'm young. I may be young and I may be inexperienced, but I am also highly intelligent. If I want to comment, then I'll bloody well comment. If I'm wrong, then correct me and I'll know better for next time, but don't you dare say I shouldn't speak.

The Earl

 

[stingray61]

ROFLMBO@ unconscious desires.

Toilet paper being put on with the first sheet facing backwards always gets me aggravated. It's wrong I tell you, just fucking wrong.

 

[stingray61]

An unconscious desire sounds like someone who gets their rocks off by being bludgeoned with blunt objects.

My pet peeve is people telling me I can't have an opinion on a certain subject because I'm young. I may be young and I may be inexperienced, but I am also highly intelligent. If I want to comment, then I'll bloody well comment. If I'm wrong, then correct me and I'll know better for next time, but don't you dare say I shouldn't speak.

The Earl

Hey you, you're too young to have your pet peeve posted here. LOL just kidding. I hate when people think that just because someone is young they don't have a clue. That's like saying because they're old they have some magical mystical power of knowledge when in reality it's what you've learned and been through that gives you true knowledge not just the fact that you've lived to be 100 or so. I know a lot of older people that don't know anything worth while.

43 years here but well over 100 in experience.

 

[Kassiana]

Earl, you can't have an opinion on this subject. You're too young.

I have a Reiki book my mother-in-law gave me here. It combines two of my least favorite linguistic peeves: random capitalization and unwarranted hyphens. Almost every page has "Be-ing" on it. If I ever start writing like that, I give all of you permission to kill me at once.

 

[TheEarl]

Hey you, you're too young to have your pet peeve posted here.

Earl, you can't have an opinion on this subject. You're too young.

<ignore> <ignore> Sorry, did you guys say something?

The Earl

 

[cloudy]

I have a friend that consistently uses "ideal" instead of "idea"....as in "I have an ideal."

It makes me grit my teeth every damn time I hear it.

 

[impressive]

Ooooo -- and my mother says "-dee" instead of "-day" at the end of all the days of the week: Sundee, Mondee, ...

Like nails on a chalkboard!

 

[SensualCealy]

I know I cant spell worth a shit, but what pisses me off is people correcting me after Ive said I cant spell and told them to read it phonetically. Frankly if I get my point across who gives a flying leap!
Oh and anyone that says AINT! I know they put the damn word in the dictionary, who the fuck is that stupid!
C

 

[cloudy]

I know I cant spell worth a shit, but what pisses me off is people correcting me after Ive said I cant spell and told them to read it phonetically. Frankly if I get my point across who gives a flying leap!
Oh and anyone that says AINT! I know they put the damn word in the dictionary, who the fuck is that stupid!
C

um.....I use that word, and I'm far from stupid.

It's a regional thing, and quite accepted here. I don't use it in my writing, and it's most likely to show up when I'm angry, but assuming that someone that uses it is stupid is akin to saying if you have a southern accent, you're a redneck.

 

[Op_Cit]

Not written, but in dialog, the past ten years has seen an increase in the use of the phrase "point well taken".

It drives me nuts because it is used most commonly by people making a rebuttal. They should only be using that phrase if they accept totally the point made by the other person, because they are recommending to others that they should "take" it.

Most often it's clear (to me) that they meant to say "point well made". A point well made can still be disagreed with without sounding schizoid.

 

[stingray61]

Well I aint sure I'm be-ing overly redundant since my well-being is at stake but
I aint got no choice but to say that ya'll have be-gun to make me laugh and I aint joking. LOl be-ing is that like Chandler Bing asking if I could BE any funnier?

SensualCealy......Maybe if you put that fact in your sig line people would stop giving you a hard time about it instread of be-ing mean. I mean with spell check and all it is really kind of easy to correct your mistakes before posting them so maybe they just think your be-ing lazy (just a thought, not my actual opinion of you).

I have a couple of cousins that look up and to the left the entire time they are speaking to someone, It's like they are reading a prompter from God or something. They get even worse when they get angry lol. I hated that as a kid and I still do. You wanna talk to me then look me in the eye damnit!!! Ok well at least look me in the monitor.

 

[Kassiana]

Sting, you forgot to capitalize Be-ing. Your inner human Be-ing is not pleased. No soup for you!

 

[Op_Cit]

I have a couple of cousins that look up and to the left the entire time they are speaking to someone, It's like they are reading a prompter from God or something. They get even worse when they get angry lol. I hated that as a kid and I still do. You wanna talk to me then look me in the eye damnit!!! Ok well at least look me in the monitor.

I met someone like that once and it was really disconcerting. Is it some kind of neurological disorder?

 

[stingray61]

Sting, you forgot to capitalize Be-ing. Your inner human Be-ing is not pleased. No soup for you!

My entire Be-ing is Scream-ing.....Damn soup nazis!!!

 

[Kassiana]

Just Be-cause...

the Modified Dracula response.

"I don't pet ... peeves."

 

[stingray61]

I met someone like that once and it was really disconcerting. Is it some kind of neurological disorder?

I'm not sure. I've heard tell (lol) that some people that lie all the time do that, and also that it could have something to do with their being (Be-ing) so intimidated by their stepdad could have caused it. Either way it worked out ok when they got angry at me and wanted to fight because they never saw the punch coming.

 

[stingray61]

what the hell is a peeve anyway some kind of animal from mars? I don't pet pees either.

 

[~photoguy~]

peeved
adjective INFORMAL
annoyed:

- He was peeved because we didn't ask him what he thought about the idea.

peeve
verb {T}
- What peeved her most was his thoughtlessness.
- {+ that} It peeves me that she didn't bother to phone.

peevish
adjective
easily annoyed:
- a peevish, bad-tempered person

peevishly
adverb
- "I thought you might have helped, " she replied peevishly.


the question remains ... what is a "pet peeve" ... since peeve is not a noun ??



An English colloquialism: "pet" meaning personal, "peeve" meaning an annoyance or nuisance. A pet peeve is something that bugs you, irritates you, or drives you nuts, but doesn't necessarily bother anyone else around you.

 

[stingray61]

peeved
adjective INFORMAL
annoyed:

- He was peeved because we didn't ask him what he thought about the idea.

peeve
verb {T}
- What peeved her most was his thoughtlessness.
- {+ that} It peeves me that she didn't bother to phone.

peevish
adjective
easily annoyed:
- a peevish, bad-tempered person

peevishly
adverb
- "I thought you might have helped, " she replied peevishly.


the question remains ... what is a "pet peeve" ... since peeve is not a noun ??

LMBO thank you Mr. Webster.

 

[brightlyiburn]

My pet peeve is people telling me I can't have an opinion on a certain subject because I'm young. I may be young and I may be inexperienced, but I am also highly intelligent. If I want to comment, then I'll bloody well comment. If I'm wrong, then correct me and I'll know better for next time, but don't you dare say I shouldn't speak.

To add to that, I can't stand when people decide because you're young, your opinions are therefor automatically wrong. My principal last year told me that the problem I was having with my teacher was not because she was a bad teacher, but because of my "teenage perceptions". When I tried to explain that everyone in class felt the same way I did, he persisted in telling me it was only because we're teenagers. He told me that he, with his years and experience, most certainly knew more than I did. He absolutely refused to try to see where I was coming from.
I'll admit, my viewpoints are generally pretty um...skewed. Everything comes in and goes out through an autistic filter, and that's a very different way of looking at things. But hell, the asshole could have at least listened to me instead of laughing in my face! He seemed to think that it's education that makes people successful, and nothing else would do. It took all my self control not to tell him that if people don't have drive and determination, education won't do shit for them.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Okay, what really pushes your buttons?

I just cracked a new book (Arousal: The Secret Logic of Sexual Fantasies) and I am so turned off by the introduction that I doubt I'll get past it. The author repeatedly uses the word "unconscious" instead of "subconscious." Drives me bat fucking bananas.

WTF are "unconscious desires" anyway? The kind you have when you're in a coma?

I don’t know. I hate to peeve anyone off, but I looked up unconscious in Websters and it said this:

Main Entry: 1un·con·scious
Pronunciation: "&n-'kän(t)-sh&s
Function: adjective
1 a : not knowing or perceiving : not aware b : free from self-awareness
2 a : not possessing mind or consciousness <unconscious matter> b (1) : not marked by conscious thought, sensation, or feeling <unconscious motivation> (2) : of or relating to the unconscious c : having lost consciousness <was unconscious for three days>
3 : not consciously held or deliberately planned or carried out <unconscious bias>
- un·con·scious·ly adverb
- un·con·scious·ness noun


Isn’t definition 3 okay for talking about “unconscious desires”?


For subconscious they have this:

Main Entry: 1sub·con·scious
Pronunciation: "s&b-'kän(t)-sh&s, 's&b-
Function: adjective
: existing in the mind but not immediately available to consciousness <a subconscious motive>
- sub·con·scious·ly adverb
- sub·con·scious·ness noun

---dr.M.

 

[CharleyH]

Did we not have this a while ago? LINES, LINES, invariably LINES in the supermarket. Me one item, the person infront of me a shopping cart. I am a bitch, tap shoulder and say, "Um, express - 8 items?"

Cab drivers who refuse to wait for you while you get something. Here, I never have a problem, and always up my tip from 15% to an extra 5 bucks on top. New York? Cab drivers are bitchy and atrocious. New York cabbies.

3rd is anal retentive behaviour. Anal is reserved for sex, not attitude!

Edit to add: since both of my parents died, can't think of any real peeves of language and idiosyncracies except the anal ones They have become, endearing characteristics now, more than complaints

 

[impressive]

I don’t know. I hate to peeve anyone off, but I looked up unconscious in Websters and it said this:

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---dr.M.

I never claimed my peeves were rational, doc. Still, on this, I prefer MY interpretation to the dictionary's.

Charley - Someday, I will feel the same. For now -- ARGH!

 

[pop_54]

what the hell is a peeve anyway some kind of animal from mars? I don't pet pees either.

A Peeve is a small fluffy animal that resides in the high Andes, spending half it's day perched in the top of the stunted bushes of the area surveying the locale for food and of course keeping an eye out for predators. Peeve's are well suited to their environment, well camouflaged with their scruffy unkemp fur they are often mistaken for a clump of Yak hair stuck on a bush. They have also evolved well for life in the mountains and can outrun almost all of the natural predators, they achieve this by having the two legs of the right hand side of their body 3 inches longer than the two on the left making it easier to run round the side of the mountain without the risk of falling over. They are of course only able to achieve this advantage to the full if they move round the mountain in a counter-clockwise direction, should the predator come from the other direction, they're buggered.

I hope I've been of assistance.