A thread for those things that drive you up the wall, but that you also know are completely trivial and not worth making an issue of.
Number one in my list: noisy eating / drinking.
Whether that's slurping your tea, or having a panchant for giving your apple a good hearty crunch folllowed by severe mastication, its drives me to distraction.
As for those who can't seem to close their mouths while eating, well that's gone beyond trivial in my book...
So what are your pet grieves then folks?
Originally posted by ToePeople who fart and think it's funny.
A thread for those things that drive you up the wall, but that you also know are completely trivial and not worth making an issue of.
Number one in my list: noisy eating / drinking.
Whether that's slurping your tea, or having a panchant for giving your apple a good hearty crunch folllowed by severe mastication, its drives me to distraction.
As for those w ...[text shortened]... ting, well that's gone beyond trivial in my book...
So what are your pet grieves then folks?
Especiall if you hardly know them.
I don't want to hear or, even worse, smell other people's farts - I certainly don't find them funny.
Originally posted by rwingettOn that same line of thought, I hate it when people say, "Same difference" when they really mean the same thing. It bugs the hell out of me.
People who say, "I could care less", when in fact they mean, "I couldn't care less".
Those people should be kicked in the face with an iron boot.
Originally posted by ToePublic ass scratchers, nose pickers, ball gougers, and people coughing without covering their pie-hole.....Sunday-drivers on a Friday evening drive home from work...cell phone talkers in theatre....parents not controlling their demon-spawn in restaraunts.....other than that, not much pets my peeve.....🙄
A thread for those things that drive you up the wall, but that you also know are completely trivial and not worth making an issue of.
Number one in my list: noisy eating / drinking.
Whether that's slurping your tea, or having a panchant for giving your apple a good hearty crunch folllowed by severe mastication, its drives me to distraction.
As for those w ...[text shortened]... ting, well that's gone beyond trivial in my book...
So what are your pet grieves then folks?
Originally posted by ToeFinally! A thread I can let loose on! 😀
A thread for those things that drive you up the wall, but that you also know are completely trivial and not worth making an issue of.
Number one in my list: noisy eating / drinking.
Whether that's slurping your tea, or having a panchant for giving your apple a good hearty crunch folllowed by severe mastication, its drives me to distraction.
As for those w ...[text shortened]... ting, well that's gone beyond trivial in my book...
So what are your pet grieves then folks?
I hate it when I ask a technical question and the engineer says, "more or less". ðŸ˜
Same thing with "Six of one, half dozen of another."
3. People who say "Whatever" - and nothing else - when a conversation/discussion is being attempted, either throughout or at a point when they've simply failed to string anything coherent together.
[I actually loathe this and am prone to irrationality when it occurs, mainly along the lines of immediately seeking to disassociate myself with them on the grounds that they are A Bad Person.]
4. Blanket statements.
Example number 1: "Mathematics is dull/boring/pointless" - usually uttered by someone who has studied what is labelled as mathematics up to the age of 15 or so and as such has done a spot or arithmetic and some basic algebra. Oh, and found volumes of various cat food tins. It's like learning the alphabet, then a few words, then using a dictionary, building up a limited vocabulary and writing a few example sentences, and then saying: "Literature is dull".
Example number 2: "pick-a-hobby/sport-any-hobby/sport is dull" - usually uttered by someone who does love hobby X or sport Y but knows very little about hobby/sport Z. Similar to example number 1. I know nothing about baseball and as such would rate it just above truck-pulling but just below speed-walking. But if I learnt the rules, went to a few games, read the history, got a handle on why it's such a big deal for "TeamA" to beat "TeamB" or why it's so emotional for Ivor LargeArms to return to StadiumZ then maybe I'd find it a little more interesting than I do now. But no, some people go far beyond the "from what I know of hobby X or sport Y, I find it dull", and feel qualified to give The Final Word.
Example number 3: "Genre-type is rubbish". "Classical music is rubbish". "Trippy hip hop dance hall garage (or some such thing) is rubbish". "Foreign films are rubbish". Not only does such a statement overlook any kind of intra-genre variance but so many times there is something within a genre, be it the 'best' example of that genre, or whatever it is that gets through that one will like (it may even be a mood thing).
5. People who use online chess forums as a means of catharsis 😉
Originally posted by T1000OHHHHH... and while we are on the subject!
1. People who drop cigarettes, ofttimes not stubbed out.
2. People too afraid to pick them up, hand them to the offending dropper and say "Excuse me, you dropped this". Alas, I count myself among this number.
I absoluste HATE those people who dump their ashtray in the parking lot! ðŸ˜
Yeah, I see that a lot in the states.
Everybody hates a-hole drivers: People that cut you off, people who don't signal, people who see you want to get over in their lane but will not let you in.
I also can't stand when my local NPR station is in the middle of a fund raising drive, either.....They have to be the most annoying telemarketing irritants on the planet!!!
Originally posted by invigorateon this note, I have a severe hatred of recorded telemarketing. If you are going to call me, do it with a real person. If I hated telemarketers before, I loathe them now. They were annoying before, but now they're just plain cowards! Damn them to hell says I!
The tape recorded message at a call centre that saya "thank you for waiting, your business is very important to us, but all our agents are dealing with other custmoers"...............after hearing the same message 15 times I start shouting pathetic insults down the phone!
Also, I really hate people who leave their tables a disaster area at a restaurant when they leave. Likewise, I hate people who get irate with a person (i.e. public servant, person performing a service, etc.) over something that they have no control over.
Don't get me wrong, when I order a steak rare and it comes out well done, I'm not to happy. HOWEVER, I do not yell at my waiter. It probably wasn't his fault. The bus is running a little bit late? Again, probably not the bus drivers fault. Likewise with the majority of services we get. It is best to simply explain your problem to the person and ask them if they can do something about it. Usually they can, and are happy to do so, even apologizing for something they had no control over. Most people out there in the work force are trying to do a good job. Blatant incompitence is another thing altogether, but that is rare indeed. As such, I get really and truly pissed off when people vent on someone who's only trying to help them. They aren't allowed to yell back and set you straight (or atleast it would probably cost them their job). I, however, I am always happy to do this for them when I see it occur. 😀
Anyway, yeah, I hate irate people. Rant over.
Originally posted by OmnislashOh God... I forgot to mention the telemarketers...
[b]on this note, I have a severe hatred of recorded telemarketing. If you are going to call me, do it with a real person. If I hated telemarketers before, I loathe them now. They were annoying before, but now they're just plain cowards! Damn them to hell says I!
I don't know how it works where you live, but in America, we will get a call during the evening... and when we answer there's NOBODY there!
That's because the telemarketers use computer systems to call people 24 hours a day and LOG the time that the party actually answered! THEN, that list is given out to the brats and they call!
ARGH!!! I HATE telemarketers!!!
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