[psmith2.0]

Originally Posted by Oompa Loompa Holy canary!

I've fought back, and recently made some huge strides. Don't worry.

[Oompa Loompa]

Originally Posted by pscates2.0 I've fought back, and recently made some huge strides. Don't worry.

You are such a soldier: respeck!

[Banana]

Looks like I have a new pet peeves.

Discussing Paul's manhood.

It's as if privacy is foreign concept to this guy.

[thegeriatric]

Originally Posted by Banana Looks like I have a new pet peeves. Discussing Paul's manhood. It's as if privacy is foreign concept to this guy.

Yuk. Nooooooooooooooooooo put it away.

[psmith2.0]

I regret ever saying anything...

Not sterile. Just didn't like the Blunt song before my movie. There.

[Oompa Loompa]

Originally Posted by Banana Looks like I have a new pet peeves. Discussing Paul's manhood. It's as if privacy is foreign concept to this guy.

Hey now, you're the one mentioning bananas all of the time! What do you expect?

Ok, sorry guys for silly derailing... I'm going to hit the sack!

[thegeriatric]

Originally Posted by Oompa Loompa Hey now, you're the one mentioning bananas all of the time! What do you expect?

I like bananas............ Hmmmmmmmm..........maybe i should have just kept that comment to myself!!

[Banana]

Originally Posted by pscates2.0 Not sterile.

Okay, that's gross. Can't you just wash yourself once in while? You ever hear of germs?!?



Are you still regretting you mentioned it?

Originally Posted by Oompa Loompa Hey now, you're the one mentioning bananas all of the time! What do you expect?

A solid source of potassium!

[Oompa Loompa]

Originally Posted by thegeriatric I like bananas............ Hmmmmmmmm..........maybe i should have just kept that comment to myself!!

I very much like bananas & most of all Banana too!

[Dave]

Originally Posted by AWR A big pet peeve of mine is a variant of the loud commercials problem: the loudness issues on DVD movies are similar. Turn the volume up to hear the dialogue, frantically lower volume when scene turns to a bar. Heaven forbid a helicopter flies by ... The whole freakin movie you've got to manage the volume. I end up putting subtitles on.

A lot of newer recievers/TVs/cableboxes have a compression option buried somewhere in the audio menu. It makes the loud parts quieter, with varying degrees of success, depending on the algorithm used and the actual program content. It works great for my friend. YMMV.

Edit: It's not always called "compression", either. Sorry, I don't remember any of the marketing code-words. Oh, this brings up another of my pet peeves: Marketing-speak. Yes, I'm aware that not everybody knows what a compressor is, but *nobody* knows what a "whatever the hell you decided to call it instead of a compressor" is.

[psmith2.0]

My TV has a feature like that. It does work pretty well, I think.

[Banana]

Is it ever loud enough to annoy other neighbors?

[Perfecting_Zero]

Originally Posted by pscates2.0 Have your ugly, dorked-up cars...fine whatever; it's your money. Just quit waking me up in the middle of the night with your 'vooooooooom-boooom-booooom-' horseshit as you're driving home from wherever oblivitard twats such as yourselves hang out until 2:30am (juvenile center visiting rooms, A-holes Anonymous 42-step program meetings, free clinic delivery rooms awaiting another unplanned birth, etc.).

Yeah, what gets me are the over-sized, chromed-out muffler contraptions that they put on these things... I mean, they're just mass-production four-cylinder engines! So they end up sounding like obnoxious lawnmowers... not the menacing spectacles of coolness that their owners must imagine.

[psmith2.0]

I heard one of those just a few hours ago, in fact. That real high-pitched, buzzy sound...just hurts my ears and sounds so lame on a car. Yeah, makes a car sound like some crazy, out-of-whack lawnmower.

Get me a nice, low-pitched throaty rumble any day over that annoying, grating "BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ...BZZZZZZZZZZZ!"

[Perfecting_Zero]

Exactly. Now, if we're talking fat, dual pipes coming straight off the manifold of an eight-cylinder engine... no muffler or catalytic converter (oops, sorry environment) in-line, that's the low, heavy rumble that you can feel in your gut.

[sirnick4]

It bugs me when people say, "My Bad."

I don't know but, I've just never been a fan of that phrase.

[Moogs]

While their comments are well-deserved, I would like to curse all you who introduced me to the horrors of James _unt. What a disgrace! You know what his singing reminds me of? Adam Sandler on SNL singing the Thanksgiving song. The difference is, Sandler was trying to be funny. Holy GADH as they say in Chicago... that guy is a quivering piece of white toast.

I've seen more manliness in cameos performed by Gilbert Gottfried. Which reminds me... Gilbert Gottfried was a pet peeve of many people's for a long time. Hell, Gilbert annoys himself constantly. I'm almost sure of it.

[kieran]

*Bump*

Just thought I'd bring this back up because I though of another Pet Peeve of mine.

my roommates at school constantly leave the lights on when they're not in the room. It bothers the hell out of me.

That's all.

[tomoe]

• chewing with one's mouth open (please spare the world the sight & sound of your mastication)
• Ironic t-shirts. No wait...anything done, or worn, for ironic purposes.
• mankinis
• the wretched combination of bunions & open toed shoes

[Mugge]

Old people in the supermarket who just stand there and block the aisles with their cart.

[Souflay123]

Stupid drivers on the freeway, who can merge at a bottle neck so they cause like 20-30 min less than one mile stretches on the 101, people who slow down to look at an accident on the other side of the freeway. And so on...

Friends touching me, and same with lots of big hugs. I like my space bubble

People and friends who whine about money, but wont get a job

Moving my stuff around, it is one of those things, that if I see the last one I wont eat it, or if I do take the last, I shall let other know so they dont go reach for it and it is gone. I have this thing about touching my stuff, I just don't like it is a extension of my personal space bubble that goes to my possessions.

[turbulentfurball]

People who refer to the UK as England. UGH. I feel like educating the world, one ill-informed person at a time.


This is England in red. England is one of the four constituent countries of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.


This is Great Britain. Great Britain is the name of the island which comprises the countries of England, Scotland and Wales. There are some other islands of the picture, but it's rather difficult to find one of Great Britain alone. Note that Northern Ireland is not in Great Britain, it's part of the island of Ireland, but also part of the state that is the UK.


This is the United Kingdom. It comprises, as I said above, of the island of Great Britain, some of the island of Ireland, and some of the other surrounding islands. The UK is the name of the state. Not England. Not Britain.

rant over

[Yontsey]

annoying high school emo kids at concerts.

stupid ass hair and their straightening irons.....*sigh*

[Freewell]

Passive aggressiveness. It sucks. And so do the people who stoop to it.

If you have an issue, be man or woman enough to communicate about it, rather than acting like a snot-nosed 3rd grader who waits until mommy isn't looking to step on her favorite flower, cause she wouldn't give you that lollipop you wanted!

Oh, and liars. Usually the two go hand in hand.

[digitaldave]

I'm with Brad and his misplaced apostrophes - it's CDs, DVDs etc, not CD's or DVD's.

One of my big grammar peeves is the use of "should of", as in "I should of put the rubbish out", for example - it's a contraction of 'should have', so it's "should've". I know it sounds similar, but please!!!

On the motoring front, I can't stand people that have 4x4s/SUVs "because they're safer than a small car". That may be the case for a modern one if you are a passenger, but you're not giving other road users or pedestrians a fair chance:

http://www.euroncap.com/large_off_road_4_4.aspx

According to the ENCAP results, other small cars can be just as safe . For the record, I drive a BMW Mini, which although it only scores 2 stars on the pedestrian test, is better than the one star that most of the 4x4s get .

And another thing... stupid car names! Once upon a time, cars had sensible names like Mustang or Mini that described (to some extent ) what the car was supposed to be about. Now, we have things like the various offerings from Chevrolet/Daewoo such as the Lacetti, and the Kia Cee'd (wtf!). Who on Earth thinks up names like that?

[Brad]

Another bit of language/grammar that has been bothering me of late: common being used in place of come on. They don't read the same, they don't sound the same, and they don't mean the same!

[Luca]

Perhaps my biggest language-related pet peeve, outside of the ones already mentioned, is when people use "loose" instead of "lose." Like Brad said regarding "common" vs. "come on," they don't sound the same, they're not pronounced the same, and they have different meanings.

Another one that isn't so much a problem in everyday language but which really annoys me when I'm correcting a paper is when someone begins a sentence with the word "as" to mean "because." "As" has so many meanings, and you can begin a sentence with the word if you're using one of its other meanings:

"As if to blah blah blah..."
"As he ran across the field..."

However, every time I read something like this, I get confused and then have to go back and re-read the sentence:

"As he was the oldest member of the family, blah blah blah."

Just don't ever use "as" that way! It should be "because" or "since" every time.

I know this sounds like a really minor thing, but in all the written material that I've edited, the author inevitably does that all the time, and it's hard to decipher since they usually are talking about something really complicated.

[Windswept]

I'm glad this thread has resurfaced.

When I'm away from a computer, I think of a multitude of things that annoy me.

But, now that I have a chance to write them down, I can't think of anything.

OH! Well, hey. *That* predicament...(what I just wrote above)...is actually an example of something that is annoying.

Okay, well, I guess I can come up with another annoyance:

I am continually amazed how people can write a one-line reply (in a thread), consisting of only 10-12 total words, but with words either left out or misplaced, so that their very brief statement makes almost no sense.

OR... I *often* see instances where the writer is going on at length about something, making a strong point 'for' or 'against' some issue, and he'll screw up the most important word of the whole statement, in that he probably means to say "can't abide", but instead, he'll type "can abide".

Now, this kind of mistake has little consequence in a messageboard discussion; but what if he were writing a State Department document, a legal paper, or something equally important? Screwing up the most important word by typing the exact *opposite* of what is intended... well, this kind of carelessness takes my breath away. And I see it *ALL* the time!

[Capella]

Now this is annoying.

Barack Obama sneaked down to North Carolina Sunday and met with former rival John Edwards, who has yet to make an endorsement in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.

From here.

What's wrong with this sentence?

[thegeriatric]

Everything. (that just about covers it)