Pet Peeves

[Darth K'Trava]

Particularly the word "nuclear". It only has one U in it, people!! Even national newscasters say it wrong!!!

"Nucleeeaar wessels"-- Pavel Chekov

 

[Darth K'Trava]

My biggest pet peeve is people who can't take an answer and shut up.

"Do you want to do X?"
"No"
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, I'm sure I don't want to do X"
"Are you really sure, I mean [blah, blah, blah]"
"Yes, I'm sure"
"But what if....."
"No already"
"Are you sure?"
"I said NO"
"Well if you're not sure..."
"I'm sure I'm going to kill you if you don't take my NO for an answer"
"But what if...."

I SAID NO!!!

Geez, you don't have to get mad at me. I just wanted to be sure....

If I said No the first couple of times, I'm not going to change my mind because you ask me another three to five times. All you're doing is Pissing me off!!!

"But are you reeeeeaaaalllly sure you don't wanna do that?

What's annoying came from a friend of mine. Wasn't feeling too good yesterday (the heat got to him really bad) at my sister's for a cookout for her son's b-day. I asked him if he wanted to go inside.. He said no. FINALLy, 20 mins later, he goes inside and then a friend of her's comes out to tell me he wasn't feeling too good.... He did finally feel better...

The thing was, he didn't want to "impose" on my sister this whole time.... shoulda told him that calling the rescue squad after him woulda counted as "imposing".... If he'd listened, he might not have felt worse than he already did.... ::rolls eyes::

 

[Darth K'Trava]

Another friend of mine had someone who rode with him constantly go: "arewethereyet?arewethereyet?arewethereyet?arewethereyet?arewethereyet?arewethereyet?......" repeatedly the whole trip, even up the elevator.....

I'd have looked at the person and told him that he "had 2 seconds to shut the <bleep> up or he was gonna walk the rest of the way to the con..."

 

[diaglo]

They're Led Zep fans and they want to go in through the out door?

Yup.

diaglo "dazed and confused" Ooi

 

[amethal]

She's constantly saying "Cool beans." Never mind the fact that this phrase is a little dated, it's pretty darn annoying to hear it over and over again all day long.

You are so right; the only time I have ever seen this phrase is on this thread, and its already annoying me.

 

[HellHound]

That and people "leetspeek"/chatspeak abbreviations on online message boards. "plz" "OMG" "lol" "LOL" "n00b" ect. If you're on IRC or IM and need to communicate quickly, I can generally understand it (but I still use whole sentences and proper spelling). That's the quickest way to make sure I completely ignore your post

LOL!

OMG, b4k4.



Sorry, had to get that out of my system. At our last party, two people were constantly IMing each other during our annual big outdoor party - as in walking around and saying "bloop! - Judy, where are you?" "bloop! Right behind you" "bloop! OMGWTFBBQ!". It was darn funny at the time, but then again, we were pretty deeply involved in our night of debauchery by then.

Honestly, I don't udnerstand the hate for people adapting the language to suit their needs and desires, especially if it remains easily understood. For example, I have -no- issues with the use of K-rad in posting / writing (as in 1337, b4k4^2 and so on), but I do have issues with some of the more extreme dialects such as what is often refered to as l337 speak (using lots of non-standard characters to create standard characters) - but this has to do with readability, extreme forms of l337-sp34k are darn close to unreadable.

 

[sniffles]

More of my pet peeves: (like anyone cares )

Bicyclists who ride at night without helmets, reflectors, or lights. And as a corollary: bicyclists talking on cell phones, and bicyclists riding without touching the handlebars.

Cars with loud stereo systems. I don't want to listen to your music.

People who wait in line for an ATM by standing 30 feet from the machine. That's taking personal space too far, especially if there's limited space around the machine for customers to wait. You can stand 5 feet behind the person at the machine without threatening them. In some parts of the world if you stood that far away 10 people would probably walk up and cut in front of you.

People who talk on cell phones in public transportation. Do you really want strangers on the bus to hear your personal business?

 

[Heretic Apostate]

Driving pet peeves: When you see a yellow, you slow down and stop. You do not go charging through. You especially don't if the light is already yellow and about to turn red. That's running a red light, for one, but most importantly, me over there in the turn lane can ONLY move on a yellow. How effing cycles of the traffic light should I wait for all of your rude asses.

It depends on two things, in my opinion: How close am I to the yellow light, and how close is the person behind me?

If I'm approaching the light, and I'm not within braking distance, I'm going through that intersection. I'm in almost as much trouble if I end up idling over the crosswalk or, worse, stuck halfway into the intersection. (And trust me, the person behind me won't allow me to back up.)

Also, if I'm approaching the intersection, and the guy behind me is tailgating (a personal pet peeve of mine...), I'm not going to slam on the brakes to avoid running a red light. I've been rear-ended three times in three years (hence why tailgating is my pet peeve), and I don't want to be rear-ended again.

If that inconveniences you, then it's too bad. I'd rather not be blocking several lanes of traffic or, worse, wind up with my trunk crushed and my neck suffering from whiplash.

Given the chance, with enough room, I'll slow down and stop for a yellow light. I won't be happy, especially if I should have been able to make that light, but for the actions of people in front of me. But I'll stop, because it's the right thing to do. But I'm not going to risk my life to obey the law.

Also, particularly bad in Colorado, learn how to merge. Use the merge lane to get up to speed and seamlessly blend in with moving traffic. You do not get in the merge lane, slow down, stop and wait like an idiot.

What about when people speed up to prevent you from merging? I've come to the end of the merge lane, completely unable to merge, simply because people refused to let me in. (Happened just last week: I almost got sandwiched into the concrete barrier because the guy in the pickup truck didn't let me merge in on my turn.)

Of course, there's also the people who use the onramp/offramp lane as a chance to skip ahead of a dozen cars in stop-and-go traffic. That lane is meant to exit the freeway, or to come on to the freeway, NOT to skip a hundred feet of cars that are bumper-to-bumper.

And I particularly hate people who merge in front of me, then allow the next car to merge in front of them. I don't mind letting one car merge in front of me, but I darn well did my part and now it's someone else's turn to let the merge go on.

 

[Abstraction]

Of course, there's also the people who use the onramp/offramp lane as a chance to skip ahead of a dozen cars in stop-and-go traffic. That lane is meant to exit the freeway, or to come on to the freeway, NOT to skip a hundred feet of cars that are bumper-to-bumper.

How about those people who drive down the shoulder when traffic is completely stopped? WTF? Are these people somehow immune to laws, or common courtesy for that matter? Do they have their own private lane just for them? The last time I saw this happen, TWO Hummers drove past on the shoulder. This is why I can never own a gun. I would use it. Oh, yes, I would.

 

[Heretic Apostate]

I almost got busted for going through an intersection (where everyone was lined up to turn left), then going through the gas station to bypass the stop sign.

I found out, after the cop pulled me over, that that counts as running a stop sign. Nice guy, though: he let me off with a warning.

But yeah. The people doing that are one step worse than the exit/onramp passers.