The Pet Peeves Thread

[Ravenshire]

Starship should have been shot on their inception.

Holy fuck, but it's hard to type after this many moonshine lemonaids.

[Thumpalumpacus]

When people open their mouths and the stupid falls out.

(I live in Oklahoma, so I get peeved quite a bit.)

I hear you, down here I feel like I'm tap-dancing in a minefield some days with The Stupid.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Ohhh...being cold, goddammit. 
Can't stand it.

Hate thinking about it!

As warm as you seem, it's hard to imagine you feeling cold ...

When a person won't stop humming or singing some lame ass song, and I wind up singing it; Against my will.
Cause I'm wanted...Want-ed... dead or alive.

People who maliciously plant earbugs so that when you're surfing the 'Net you come across a song reference that will drive you batshit crazy the next few hours.

Gods above, I hate that fucking song.

[SteelCurtain]

Okay for real though:

People who do not know highway etiquette. The left lane is for faster traffic, if you're going the speed limit or under, stay in the farthest right lane. On the other side, if you're intent on going 20 mph over the speed limit, 10 mph faster than the fastest traffic, you had better not expect everyone to magically get out of your way, or get pissed off when you have to slow down. And if you are merging into traffic, it is your fucking responsibility to time it correctly, it is not my responsibility to slow down for you.

People who refuse to think for themselves. My new employee at work cannot figure out what day it is. It's been fucking three weeks. I understand that it will take a couple of days, but for you still to be confused after three weeks? Our shift starts at 10pm at night. It ends at 6am in the morning. Whatever day your shift ends on, that is what day's shift you worked. I know that when you come in and sign the hours book, it is still Friday but you are signing for Saturday, but your confusion should end there.

[account_inactive]

Doesn't get much worse.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Oh, if we're going to talk about driving peeves, I think people who get on the freeway doing 35 on the onramp should be shot in the face with rock salt. Hey, if you've got a death wish, great, knock yourself out ... But don't take me with you, goddamnit.

[Athene]

When a person won't stop humming or singing some lame ass song, and I wind up singing it; Against my will.
Cause I'm wanted...Want-ed... dead or alive.

People who maliciously plant earbugs so that when you're surfing the 'Net you come across a song reference that will drive you batshit crazy the next few hours.

Gods above, I hate that fucking song.

[Clueless Morgan]

Haha - after I take a shower there are inevitably wet footprints all the way down the hallway.  Mwhahahaha

You're never ever allowed to come stay at my house.

[*]People with giant-ass cars thinking they can fit into compact parking spaces.  No, your minivan is not a compact car.

[*]

People with tiny-ass cars thinking that if they take one of the non-compact parking spots, than I'm not going to park my truck in a compact spot - when that's all there is left.  

To be fair, it's also a pet peeve of mine in parking lot deign to use compact parking spaces because people with big-ass cars will always, no matter what, park in them. So when I design parking lots I try my damnedest to do the whole thing with standard sized parking spaces

People who park -so close- to my car that I get delayed waiting for the tow truck to come remove them.

You mean, like the jerks in their giant cars parking in compact spaces?

[Jackalope]

No I mean the jerks who can't manage to stay in their own space.

[LadyForCamus]

What are your pet peeves? Here are some of mine:

People who tell me "well it can't be that important then" when I have forgot something I feel is important.

People who bump into me on purpose and sarcastically say "sorry!" Because they're with their adolescent gangy arsehole friends, before proceeding to swagger off with their jeans barely above the floor to go piss off the next random lone adult.

People who find me "silly" for insisting on wearing a seatbelt in a car.

Incredibly stupid people who insist anything and everything I say is "bullshit" or "bollocks" when they don't understand it.

People who use the term "pseudo-intellectual".

People who don't know the difference between intelligence and knowledge who insist I am dumb when I don't know my history, science, or whatever.

People who think their own overconfidence in their beliefs means they actually know something.

People who think having realistic doubts about what you believe or don't believe means you're less likely to be correct.

People who insist they are right about a certain fact that can easily be Googled, and who insist I am absolutely wrong when I show that Wikipedia and every single credible scientific source disagrees with them, not because they have an argument or evidence of their own, but just because they "just know" they are right.

People who pretend to not be bigoted sexist, racist, homophobic transphobes in public because they're afraid of ridicule but who expect you to agree to their horrible bigoted bullshit beliefs when you discover that in private they and their friends are total fucking bigots, because "everyone is thinking it, it's just no one is allowed to say it because of the thought police", no, no, everyone is certainly NOT thinking bigoted fucking sick shit and you are allowed to say it, there is no "thought police" you just know that if you ever openly and publicly declared your fucking bigoted as fuck beliefs you would be ridiculed to fuck you piece of shit!

People who tell me to "stop arguing" whenever my opinion differs from theirs.

People who call me "cheeky" whenever I disagree with them as if disagreeing with them is a lack of respect like they are above me and as if they deserve my utmost admiration when in fact they're clearly an arrogant self-important dick.

People who offer advice and then when I don't take it say "Well if you're not going to accept my advice I won't help you again" or people who think because I ask for advice it obligates me to take whatever they give me.

People who pushily offer to do me favors I don't want and say "I insist" in a patronisingly smarmily unctuous tone until I give in, only to try and guilt trip me into doing stuff for them whenever they want, or to give them company whenever they're lonely.

People who treat guilt tripping others into doing what they personally think is worth valuing as a moral obligation above actual love, compassion, respect and friendship.

People like that who won't fuck off and leave me alone.

People who call me "anti-social" whenever I tell them I want to be alone.

People who think socializing means sitting in a room with a bunch of people on your phone, laptop, or with your head in a book or headphones on ignoring each other.

People who loudly talk all the way through a movie and when you join in with them say "shhhh this is the good part".

I could go on. What about you folks?

I always wear my seat belt.  It's stupid not to.  

Pet peeve:  When someone pulls out in front of me from a side street at the last possible second so that I have to slam on my breaks to avoid hitting them, and then proceeds to drive 10 miles below the speed limit all the way to their destination.