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| Your Pet Peeves; AKA RICKYS RANT THREAD | |
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| Topic Started: 16 May 2012, 04:18 PM (1,482 Views) | |
| ☺Easy E | 16 May 2012, 04:18 PM Post #1 |
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I was just stuck in an elevator with someone who felt the need to have a personnal conversation on their cellphone while we all rode up several stories. Cellphone ettiquette is something that drives me crazy! I don't want to be forced to hear your horror show of a life. I also have a crazy hatred for people who want Marble cake. Man-up and make a decision. Be decisive. Do you want white cake or chocolate cake? If you are trying to satisfy people who only like white or only like chocolate cake, guess what; you are satisfying NO ONE with Marble cake. Just choose one and at least make half the people happy. I also hate people who rant online about their pet peeves!  What are some of yours? |
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| ☺The Antipope | 16 May 2012, 05:18 PM Post #2 |
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OK, I'll play. I certainly hate more things than I like. As far as forums go (any forums) I hate to see this in Project Logs: that is great i love it i like your work you are good etc. Single sentence, useless comments. Ignoring the lack of any grammar, which is another pet peeve of mine, we're all educated to some degree, seeing posts like these make my blood boil. They add nothing to anything. WHY do you love it? WHAT do you love? COULD anything be better? ARE you a REAL person or are you a computer program designed to make generic comments while spreading AIDs into my computer? There's nothing wrong with praise and certainly so much work here is deserving of it, but If I don't have anything to say beyond the online equivalent of monosyllabic muttering I tend to just not post at all. Hmmm, what else. This could be a long post... Afflictions as an excuse. There's one. Now I recognise that some people are genuinely afflicted by this, that or the other and I think that's fine, but some people, increasingly so, use things like Autism as an excuse for [Not on the floor please] behaviour. Oh, I'm sorry I was rude to you and stole your money and then tried to sleep with your girlfriend, I'm Autistic, I can't help it. [well, someone needs a cool off period] off. Just because your Autistic doesn't mean your not self aware or capable of predicting consequences. I also hate how in certain quarters such afflictions have become 'cool'. There are rafts of people on the internet and in RL who claim to have things they don't to try to gain sympathy, girls/boys, friends or whatever. People who sit on the bus and put their bag on the seat next to them so you can't sit there. Or sit on the outer part of the seat to make the window bit impossible to get to. Ignorant, ignorant bastard. Even if there are empty seats around the person on the bus I make special effort to inconvenience that person by sitting next to them. Poor personal hygiene, there's no excuse. Have a [well, someone needs a cool off period]ing bath/shower. Bad manners. No 'please' and 'thank you'. Chewing with your mouth open. Spitting. Generally stupid behaviour. People who own animals and think it's funny when said animal tries to lick you, maul you, hump you, whatever. True story, from China. I was on a bus and the lady behind me thought it was SO funny and cute that her tiny, yappy dog kept sniffing my head, chewing my hair and licking my ears. So I showed her how funny it was, grabbed it by the collar and dangled it out of the window while the bus was speeding down the road. Then I threw it back at her. She didn't let it touch me again. People who complain about their lot in life, when their lot is patently their fault. For example, and aimed at nobody in particular "Oh, I'm SOOO fat, I hate myself, I wish I could change etc". You can change. Idiot. Take control of your life. Stop eating so much. Exercise more. People who stay the same. Same barber, same haircut for ten years. Likes to wear blue so always wears blue clothes. Nothing else. Then snarks at you if you deviate outside of his/her own personal, bland norm. Beating around the bush. If you have something to say, say it. "Oh, no...it doesn't matter...forget I mentioned it...It's nothing..." What? OK. [well, someone needs a cool off period] you. Tell me or don't tell me, but I'm not gonna chase your information because I'm not especially interested in you. I'm tired now. I feel like I have a lot to contribute to this thread. Edited by The Antipope, 16 May 2012, 05:21 PM.
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| # Digits | 16 May 2012, 05:24 PM Post #3 |
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I hate negativity! |
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| ☺Tepok | 16 May 2012, 05:26 PM Post #4 |
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People, just can't stand them. Lukas |
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| # Old Guard | 16 May 2012, 05:38 PM Post #5 |
Entertainment officer...Meet the gang cos the boys are here.....
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Dont worry Lukas its mutual I've learned today that Ricky has issues pet peeves- people who post in the wrong place
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| Brambleten | 16 May 2012, 05:44 PM Post #6 |
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People who get in a lift to go up/down one floor. use the stairs. obviously some people cannot use the stairs and thus need to use the lift, which i can understand, but if your reason is that you are just plain [well, someone needs a cool off period]ing lazy then i will not be impressed. at all. slow people walking across the width of the pavement. If you are walking slower than me and are in my way, then i will try and go around you. If traffic prevents me from doing this, I will get irritated and make sure you know that you were in my way as i walk around you. people that use the last of the loo roll and don't replace it. people who cook and then don't wash up afterwards, then leave it all for others to clean when they need to use the stuff. the latter two have been reinforced this last year living with certain people. has got to a point where if they do them again i am going to ignore the fact that my nerf guns fire darts and use them as clubs |
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| ☺Tepok | 16 May 2012, 06:10 PM Post #7 |
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Good to know OG, our love was never meant to be anyway. I'd just like to make a side note that Canadians (well, 90% of them) are excluded from my earlier opinion, they're wonderful and live up to their awesome stereotype. And Ricky, I agree, fully. I'm going to add small dogs. They're horrible, vile, hyperactive things. Why would you want a small dog? Just get a cat. Big dogs. Big dogs good. Lukas |
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| Fraserbear | 16 May 2012, 10:06 PM Post #8 |
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I agree. |
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| Zaamel | 16 May 2012, 10:14 PM Post #9 |
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I have to echo the pope-ster here, and add to that list, people who claim not to speak swedish/english untill you mention something along the lines of"you dropped this". |
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| ☺The Antipope | 17 May 2012, 03:17 AM Post #10 |
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I hate big dogs. Big dogs that pound toward you making a sound from the depths of hell then jump on you only for the owner to say... "He's only playing! Hahahaha!". Yeah, playing, attacking people is not playing unless it's in a video game. One thing I love about the Resident Evil series is having the ability to shoot big dogs with shotguns. My friend has such a dog called Archie and when I play Resident Evil I will whistle and say "Here Archie, here!"...BOOM! Where's the next Archie? Fence-sitters. I absolutely hate fence-sitters. "Well, you have your opinion and I have mine" and "We should agree to disagree". [well, someone needs a cool off period] you. Have an opinion. HAVE some balls. Defend your beliefs. Everyone is NOT right. Everyone CAN'T be right. Opinions are good and healthy debate is how the world moves forward. I'll second Digits on negativity, though just to say you hate 'negativity' as a blanket term is useless. I could be wrong, but I think it was Isambard Kingdom Brunel who said that the people in the world who complain are the people who change the world for the better. The people who put their fingers in their ears and refuse to say bad words are the people who are ultimately forgotten. History is full of great complainers. Jesus Christ, Ghandhi, Malcolm X, Lenin, Lennon, Mandela, Jefferson, Luther-King, Socrates, Churchill, Cromwell, Orwell... the list goes on. All people who could be perceived as 'negative' when in fact what they were doing is stating what they thought was wrong with the ultimate goal of improving it. That's not negative, it's positive. In fact saying nothing has a greater negative effect than saying something. I do hate negativity for the sake of negativity though. Anything can change, the difference lies in talking about it and at least trying to do something about it. And mostly I think the world IS made of positive things. If there weren't more good things in the world than bad things I wouldn't get out of bed in the morning. The kind of negativity I hate is people who complain when the ability to change something is within their reach. I have a friend who's worked in a bank for 15 years and he says to me"I wish I could travel the world and work like you". Stupid. You can. I did. Just do it. But then says "maybe next year" and the next year becomes the next becomes the next becomes the next. People who absolutely refuse to break regulations even though it's perfectly easy and harmless to do so. This isn't such a problem in England but literally in China, in Pizza Hut I wanted extra cheese on a pizza and they had to call head office to OK it. Ridiculous. Just. Put. The. Cheese. On. The. Pizza... Jango is right on people who walk slowly and use lifts when it's not needed and I'll add to that people who BLOCK THE ENTIRE ESCALATOR. I love London because people habitually stand to one side and in the big city it's culturally accepted to push anyone out of the way who is obstructing you. Ignorance, in any shape or form. Just two weeks ago someone asked me if I was American. When I told them I was English they said, "Oh, it's all the same", but trust me a Chinese person would go ape if you even implied a Chinese was "the same" as a Japanese. This goes for stereotypes as well. People here are often surprised I'm humorous because they've seen Pride and Prejudice and so assume all English people are stuffy and cold. The same people tend to assume that all Americans are kind and warm. Idiots. You can't make stereotypes like that when you are talking about nations. Again, they would go crazy If I said ALL Chinese know Kung-Fu and are Communist deviants who want to destroy the West. People who can't/don't/won't read. Actually, in terms of the forum that just baffles me when people say it. We are communicating via a text based medium. If you don't want to read, go away. And coupled with this, the slow but inevitable erosion of language via the Internet. People communicate in GIFs and emoticons and WTFs now. I've never had to use pictures to convey my emotions in written form because I have... What is it called? Oh yeah. Education. I worked hard to be clever and I hate to see written laziness. For example something like lol...it's actually just as easy to type 'haha' and something I despise is 'K' for 'OK'. How lazy is that? That's my part 2. There's more. Edited by The Antipope, 17 May 2012, 03:35 AM.
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| Shortsonfire79 | 17 May 2012, 05:32 AM Post #11 |
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As much as I like that Antipope hits all the major points on the head, I have to say I hate it most when people waste my time. When they make me wait for them or take their time getting ready when everyone else is about to head out the door. Or even better, when they take their sweet time doing something, and then look at you as if you're wasting their time. I understand that their time is as precious as my own, but at least I try to do things in a timely fashion when I know someone is waiting for me. |
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| # the_great_gonzo | 17 May 2012, 06:21 AM Post #12 |
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I've edited the title for you Ricky. I have many pet hates. Some seem quite petty and small but added together they can turn a good day into a snowball of shite. Cats. Or rather the cat that is put out the door to shite in someones garden as it doesn't have a litter tray at home. I'd love to have dropped my mastiff in a cat owners garden for a shite, one who fails to own a litter tray. Indicators on motor vehicles. I have two cars. One cost 400 euros. one cost 1600 euros. I'm very happy for you to turn across a roundabout from the left hand lane, across my lane of traffic because you've failed to get in ane before the roundabout. I'm happy for you to hit my car and cause lost of damage. It's your fault. Your 3 year old BMW is worth more to fix than my banger. Indicate or even better, learn to drive! |
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| Cole | 17 May 2012, 09:11 AM Post #13 |
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I like this thread. My pet peeves. 1. old people. 2. public transport. 3. people who eat with their mouth open. 4. chavs. 5. The Jeremy Kyle show. 6. Celebrity/ reality TV. 7. religion. 8. Lazy dole bums. 9. parents who use adhd and other "illnesses" to make excuses for bratty spawns. 10. food shopping see 1 ,4,2,8 and 9. to be continued.. |
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| Daemon-Forge | 17 May 2012, 09:21 AM Post #14 |
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i agree! this is all the stuff that [tinkle] me of. highlighted the ones that really boil me up |
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| ☺The Antipope | 17 May 2012, 10:41 AM Post #15 |
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Wow, I think it's the first time anyone has ever inherited a thread. Hopefully I'm at least making sensible, reasoned points. This is good for me though it's therapy. Next, Old People. Now, just hear me out. I hate old people for several conflicting reasons. The obvious, they are slow and frail and frequently set in outmoded ways. Yes. Quite often they stink. Yes. Many of them are somehow of the opinion that young people 'owe' them something. Yes. But these aren't the real reasons I hate old people. The real reason is I look at them and know, just know, that one day I will be one. In fact the transformation has begun. I'm grumpy, set in my ways, think people 'owe' me stuff, don't understand (or want to understand) new technologies... Old people are a mirror of dread to the young. And though I'm not old by any stretch (33 in one month), nobody becomes younger. Chavs... I've seen that thrown about a few posts back. It's a bit of a blanket term, I don't really like it, but I know what you mean. I know many people who are into the 'chava' lifestyle, complete with the clothing, musical taste, nasty car etc. and they have been perfectly reasonable, clever and funny people. But the people we are talking about above I believe would be the unwashed, uneducated undeclasses which exist in any place to some degree. And yeah, I hate that. I hate anybody who thinks beating people up is fun, or just generally act like tools. Cole...religion...is dodgy territory. I don't hate religion. I hate the people who jam it down your throat. I consider myself to be an Atheist Agnostic (I don't believe in any 'God' but I do believe there must be something after life... and that's another debate entirely) and I have a friend who is a very hardline Catholic. He's a great guy. We meet. We talk hobby, TV, life and so on. He doesn't talk about religion cause he knows I'm not bothered and I don't start hankering on about Richard Dawkins or whatever for the same reasons. I actually admire people who are religious because they have an underlining faith that defines them. I wish I could have something like that, but I just can't buy it. The people I don't like are the ones knocking at your door, preaching about Hellfire in the street or just generally ruining everybody's day by blah blah blah when people don't care. They get angry, the people get angry, it serves no purpose. So I don't hate Religion itself, rather I hate the kind of people it can produce in extremis. Intolerance. Actually in China you see a lot of homophobia and racism. It's easy for a white American/British/Australian person to get employed, but as much as they say in the manual that black skin is not looked down upon here it is. That's not me, it's a fact. You can read all about that. Many people here are still afraid of black people when they see them and in some regard they are thought of as being a less 'evolved' person. Terrible. And Homosexuality. In China, they just pretend it doesn't exist. So many people here deny that ANY gays exist in China and if a person is openly gay they can't have certain jobs. For instance, it's against government policy for a gay man to be a teacher in case he tries to 'influence' his students. I find the idea that gay people go round trying to convert every person they meet into one of them both hilarious and tragic in equal measure. So that's part three. I think my hate machine is starting to slow down now. But maybe there can be a part four tomorrow. |
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| Cole | 17 May 2012, 11:25 AM Post #16 |
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With religion as long that person doesn't try and ram it down my throat or badger me about how my own life choices are wrong I am fine with it. Unfortunately these people are few and far between. On the subject of chavs, I work with a few guys that I consider chavs (they do as well) but they work and provide for their brood. The chavs I am on about are the ones that seem to frequent every episode of Jeremy Kyle. and also 11. overweight people who whine that they want to lose weight while scoffing down a super size big mac meal coming up with all the excuses going why they cannot go to the gym or do anything remotely fitness related. If you you want to drop some weight stop eating crap and move around more!!! 
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| Brambleten | 17 May 2012, 11:35 AM Post #17 |
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Shops not having my size in shoe. yes, i know there is some sort of bell curve that says most men are size 7-9 or something with small feet and large feet much rarer but that doesn't mean that shops have to exclusively stock sizes 6-10 and hope everyone fits them. trying to find size 12s or larger is a bitch. A few others such as religion being thrown down your throat and Jeremy Kyle chavs have already been mentioned. And why cannot all lightbulbs be the same? One lightbulb blows answer you think you have a spare but it turns out that no, you don't have a spare as this one is a slim screw fit rather than a standard one or a bayonet bulb. Edited by Brambleten, 17 May 2012, 11:36 AM.
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| # Old Guard | 17 May 2012, 11:37 AM Post #18 |
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Grumpy young men  trust me give it a few years!
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| crassius47 | 17 May 2012, 11:58 AM Post #19 |
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1. mobile phone snobs, well done you've got a blackberry, iphone or android, the look on my face should tell you that i could not give a [Not on the floor please] 2. chefs, its not a work of art, its a bloody plate with 3 scallops on it and some sort of dressing which i can't identify 3. cruise passengers, do you really need to pack the entire contents of your house into 2 suitcases that are so dense that they have reached critical mass and weigh more than a ford fiesta 4. windows 7 5. daily mail readers, cretins, the lot of them 6. west ham supporters, see above 7. people who air all thier personal problems on facebook the list could go on but i'd probsbly be banned 
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| ☺The Antipope | 17 May 2012, 12:30 PM Post #20 |
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I think I am finished with this now. Any further comment would be barrel scraping... Hmmm, felt good. |
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