Pet peeves

[ShyGuy68]

A few of mine:

When do people learn that it's spelled "masturbate" and NOT "masterbate"!!

Posters (mainly men) who use close up pictures of their private parts as their avatar.

 

[Lurnk]

Some of my pet peeves:

-- Nosey people

--Getting the "Are you an English teacher?" question when I chat. Of course it's hardly ever written that beautifully.

--Novels that don't start on the page numbered as "1." Is it wrong that I get a thrill from seeing Chapter 1 and page one on the same page?

--The Yahoo IM box buzzer.

--Having to repeat myself


Hm. That's it for now.

New Peeve

People who think English teachers are grammar police.

That's not our job.

At least it's not the job of those of us who teach beyond the middle school level. Our job is infinitely greater than that. Amongst the most important of our duties are:

1) Preservation of the English-speaking literary tradition
1a) Preserving knowledge of earlier forms of English, including Middle and Old, so that texts like Beowulf and the Arthurian Romances are not lost to time.
2) Opening up potential interpretations of literary works from Beowulf and Marlowe to Thomas Hardy (*shudder*) to Tolkien and Rowling through a variety of means from trauma theory and Jungian archetypal analysis to Historicism and Marxism - with an ungodly amount of other stuff in between.
3) Fostering a love of reading and the written word in future generations.

Lovely.

 

[Lorali82]

Waiters/waitresses who don't write your order down and then get it wrong!

 

[mattdchef]

Waiters/waitresses who don't write your order down and then get it wrong!

i absolutely hate that...especially when it is an order for a 25 tenderloin/lobster tail surf and turf and the bitch screws it up and you have to throw it away and start over!!! i jammed a waitress in the hand with a fork for doing that once...

 

[Lorali82]

i absolutely hate that...especially when it is an order for a 25 tenderloin/lobster tail surf and turf and the bitch screws it up and you have to throw it away and start over!!! i jammed a waitress in the hand with a fork for doing that once...

Yeeouch!

 

[mattdchef]

Yeeouch!

yes totally messed with my food cost for the night...then i told her the $ for it should come from her tips, she got all pissy so i was like bitch you cost me my bonus so why should i have to suffer

 

[phlipant]

My 2 cents

Since when did we start becoming too lazy to take the cart we filled with bags from the grocery store, and leave it anywhere in the parking lot? Typically the fenced in area is less than 30 feet away.

 

[Ekserb]

Since when did we start becoming too lazy to take the cart we filled with bags from the grocery store, and leave it anywhere in the parking lot? Typically the fenced in area is less than 30 feet away.

That started when the stores started getting their employees to go out into the lot to clean up all the carts and bring them back to the store. Very few stores have the "cart corrals" anymore. Returning the cart to the inside of the store is just out of the question - people are way too lazy for that.

 

[phlipant]

That started when the stores started getting their employees to go out into the lot to clean up all the carts and bring them back to the store. Very few stores have the "cart corrals" anymore. Returning the cart to the inside of the store is just out of the question - people are way too lazy for that.

If I don't see a corral, I actually take it back to the front. People look at me strangely for some reason.

 

[Daizie]

If I don't see a corral, I actually take it back to the front. People look at me strangely for some reason.

Common courtesy and decency have become foreign concepts.

On a similar note, I get annoyed when I hold the door for someone and they don't say "Thank you". I always say loudly..."you're welcome" and sometimes they look at me like...what?

 

[phlipant]

Common courtesy and decency have become foreign concepts.

On a similar note, I get annoyed when I hold the door for someone and they don't say "Thank you". I always say loudly..."you're welcome" and sometimes they look at me like...what?

Are parents just too lazy to teach that now? You sure don't receive it in school. I think most parents let the school system rear their children and just don't want to be bothered.

 

[yogiforlife]

re

I hate sport shows that around this time of year have year in review shows and discuss who was the biggest story or athlete of the year, who cares!

 

[Ekserb]

Common courtesy and decency have become foreign concepts.

On a similar note, I get annoyed when I hold the door for someone and they don't say "Thank you". I always say loudly..."you're welcome" and sometimes they look at me like...what?

Hehe ... I do the same in traffic. If I let someone in front of me, I expect at least some kind of visible acknowledgment like a wave or a head bob with an eyebrow raise. Most of the time I get neither.

What really irks me is when another driver tries to pull in front of me by simply sliding into my lane even when he hasn't the room for his car. He just expects that I will let him in. No glance. No finger pointing. Nothing. I tend to hug the bumper in front of me when I see someone doing that. "Yeah, try to get in there, prick!" If he would simply give me a look or a glance, I'd let him right in. No indication means you don't want to a part of this society, so I'm not going to give you a place in front of me. Fucker.

 

[Daizie]

Hehe ... I do the same in traffic. If I let someone in front of me, I expect at least some kind of visible acknowledgment like a wave or a head bob with an eyebrow raise. Most of the time I get neither.

What really irks me is when another driver tries to pull in front of me by simply sliding into my lane even when he hasn't the room for his car. He just expects that I will let him in. No glance. No finger pointing. Nothing. I tend to hug the bumper in front of me when I see someone doing that. "Yeah, try to get in there, prick!" If he would simply give me a look or a glance, I'd let him right in. No indication means you don't want to a part of this society, so I'm not going to give you a place in front of me. Fucker.

Excellent. I am the exact same way. Don't expect to bully your way into my lane because then I will stick to the car in front of me like glue. And this goes especially for those people driving expensive cars with a cellphone on their ear. However, if you show me a little respect on the road (and I've taken my nice pills) then maybe I'll let you in. Maybe.

 

[human_male]

I agree with that. That happens to me all the time. It's worse because they'll often respond to everyone but me, it's basically 'thanks to eveyone expect human_male.' And often times I've said basically the same as many other people. It's especially hurtful in the How to when I've tried to be supportive and helpful and everyone get's a thankyou but me.

My other pet peeve is lawn mowers.

 

[Mitsouko]

I know this is a pet peeve thread but I just have to say how much it pisses me off to have people come on the internet and "pretend" to like someone and lead them on knowing all along that there will never be nothing between that other person and themselves ... telling them all the things they want to hear, making them believe that it was only them they want to be with and all that other fuckin bullshit ... is this a new game that I am not aware of?

I don't think its a game, I just think its a way of life among quite a few lit males, maybe its true of some lit females as well too. Blantant lies are common as well, and the lit community seems to condone this or least hold the victim responsible, not the liar. My advice regarding people and relationships here is to hold on to your heart, check your trust at the door, everyone can be disposed of with the click of the mouse, flick of a power switch or the creation of a new alt.

 

[Lorali82]

People who bring up their SO every other sentence in a conversation. Especially when I've never met them.

 

[Ekserb]

... especially for those people driving expensive cars with a cellphone on their ear.

Oooooo, those fucking phones. Don't get me started.

 

[Daizie]

People who bring up their SO every other sentence in a conversation. Especially when I've never met them.

Yes! I agree! This also applies to people who talk about a family member or friend that I don't know. "I'm going out to dinner with Joe tonight." Who the hell is Joe? At least give that person an introduction. "My friend, Joe or my brother, Joe."

 

[limiwa]

I think the rant in my sig covers my peeve of the moment. However, I am going to elaborate...

Sure, perv on my pics, they are there. PM me if you must. But when I tell you I am well more than ten years older (or worse yet, twice your age plus some) take a walk to some younger ladies thread and strike up a converstion there. I do not care to train any young boys nor do I want to be impressed by any.

whew, I feel slightly better now.

 

[Surfin]

I think the rant in my sig covers my peeve of the moment. However, I am going to elaborate...

Sure, perv on my pics, they are there. PM me if you must. But when I tell you I am well more than ten years older (or worse yet, twice your age plus some) take a walk to some younger ladies thread and strike up a converstion there. I do not care to train any young boys nor do I want to be impressed by any.

whew, I feel slightly better now.

I'm more than twice 18 too , am I too young.

My pet peeves, frickin adverts that are always on at the same time on every channel

 

[limiwa]

I'm more than twice 18 too , am I too young.

My pet peeves, frickin adverts that are always on at the same time on every channel

there is no question there to answer

people who insist on telling me about what's on tv....I don't watch tv

 

[Ekserb]

People who don't use profanity and say it's for religious reasons. They'll substitute "gosh darnit" or "freakin'."

Not only is this childish, but I would think they're using those words from their mouths, but saying the real words in their heads. Doesn't god know what they're really saying? I mean, if you're going to abstain from swearing, don't pretend that we don't know what you're thinking. Either say it out loud like an adult, or cut yourself off all together.

(We have one über-bible-thumper at work who is particularly bad about this one. I can't even be in the same room with him.)

 

[pookies]

 

[monique1971]

I think the rant in my sig covers my peeve of the moment. However, I am going to elaborate...

Sure, perv on my pics, they are there. PM me if you must. But when I tell you I am well more than ten years older (or worse yet, twice your age plus some) take a walk to some younger ladies thread and strike up a converstion there. I do not care to train any young boys nor do I want to be impressed by any.

whew, I feel slightly better now.

Funny, one of my pic-related posting peeves was quite the opposite. I disliked being told via PM that I was too old to be doing this, as if it's somehow news to me that women younger than myself are hotter. I guess it was meant kindly, to save me from embarrassment, but even so, it did seem gratuitously harsh. Why not just shake one's head at the vain folly of an old chick? Why PM her?