Pet Peeves
POSTED BY: Shiny
UPDATED: Friday, May 21, 2004 13:44
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My pet peeve is people who don't use turn signals. Like when your sitting at intersection waiting for this car to go by and suddenly they turn meaning you have been waiting for no reason. If they had just used there turn signal you could have gotten on with your life.
That and artificial pine scents fake pine is just nasty.
And lets not forget people who leave cigarette butts everywhere. The world is not your ash tray. Smoking doesn't bother me cigarette butts everywhere does.
And what I really hate is people who drive around in artifical pine scented cars who don't use turn signals and throw cigarette butts out the window.
Those people are just plain no good.
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Originally posted by est120:
the phrase "I could care less." Shouldn't it be "I COULDN'T care less."?
My understanding is it was originally a Yiddish/Jewish phrase, meant sarcastically. (Imagine Mel Brooks's voice) "I could care LESS?" The emphasis has been corrupted and now it doesn't make any sense.
My pet peeves:
1) SUVs. I think a special driving license should be required to drive those things. So many drivers act like they're zipping around in a little sports car.
2) People who don't know how to drop an argument. There's a point where the other person isn't going to agree with you but no longer wishes to discuss it. Learn to recognize that point.
3) People who interrogate me about my job. I get the feeling they just want to compare my income and employability with theirs to see who "wins."
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Another pet peeve of mine is mini-vans. Lets say your at a left hand turn stop light and three mini-vans are in front of you. What do think your odds of of making it through the green arrow?
If you said zero to none you guessed right. Mini-vans allways react slow they are very carefull so carefull in fact as to insure you won't make it through that light. In fact they are so carefull that they act completely illogically they slam on the brakes at random in fact they are the number one cause of accidents. More accidents involve mini-vans than any other type of car.
Thats why I say ban the mini-van.
You know perhaps the fact I respond to a thread like this shows a negative attitude, but it makes me feel beter.
MINI-VANS ARE DEATH TRAPS!
Mini-Vans and their incompetent dangerous drivers are a pet peeve of mine.
And Mini-Van drivers who hate the goodness that is lemony fresh and use artifical pine scents, don't even get me started on them.
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3) People who interrogate me about my job. I get the feeling they just want to compare my income and employability with theirs to see who "wins."
I know what you mean Malora these people are swine! All I can say is when people treat you in such a manner make sure you treat them with contempt,it's what I do. And I realize people who would dare interrogate me about my job are usually people who have nothing else but their pathetic job. Me I've got a lot more going on in life and feel free to use that weakness against them.
If someone feels the need to try to seem richer or more employable than me I know it's not a sign of strenghth.
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wow. i definitely agree with alot of these... but no one has mentioned this one (my biggest pet peeve):
"nother" (usually used in the phrase "a whole nother")
There is no such word! There is a compound word "another" which, if broken down would be "an" and "other."
It makes my skin crawl when i hear it!
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grrrr
English Major on a Rampage. Not a pretty sight.
Reading "would of" instead of "would have" - harder to tell them apart when spoken.
Hearing "What it is, is ..." is idiotic yet will suck you in if you hear it repeated too often.
Reading "loose" instead of "lose".
Oh and the posters who said MiniVans and SUVs - I agree 100% with you on this one! They are dangerous, they obscure the view for others in front and behind - making a left turn with a MV or SUV facing you is a freakin' nightmare. Can't really see beyond your hulking shell of a car!!!
Plus as an added bonus if we get in a head-on crash your GD SUV is going to drive up over my hood and kill me. How do you sleep at night? Why don't they pay double insurance plus extra charge for the gas they waste? Do you really need 8 cylinders dragging your sorry a$$ down the street? And another thing, most SUV drivers would stroke out if a speck of dirt got on their precious vehicle so who's kidding whom?
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My #3 pet peeve is when people get louder and louder during a fight, repeating something over and over,like a mantra, rather than listening to the other HUMAN BEING'S perspective, as if the loudest repeater wins, or something. It's a no-win situation.
My #2 pet peeve is the littering/cigarette butts one someone said previously. People can be such pigs.
My #1 pet peeve, after having just been awakend from a sound sleep again, is people letting their dogs bark!
I wish I could just scare them with some pain! (Saying that anywhere else would be taken wrong, but not here!)
Mal-licious
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All I can say is when people treat you in such a manner make sure you treat them with contempt,it's what I do.
LOL. Yes, I'm sure that'll work. When in doubt, use contempt. ;)
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Oh and the posters who said MiniVans and SUVs - I agree 100% with you on this one! They are dangerous, they obscure the view for others in front and behind - making a left turn with a MV or SUV facing you is a freakin' nightmare. Can't really see beyond your hulking shell of a car!!!
I forgot about that part! And of course the windows are all tinted, so you can't even see through the car. I was behind a Humvee once and had to stick my head out my window to see anything. Of course, when the windows aren't tinted, my vision is blocked by the TV hanging from the ceiling. All I can say is:
1. Can your children survive without TV for five seconds?
2. Have you considered not carrying around the contents of a small house when you drive?
If you have more than two kids, I can understand. But 2 kids or less? Learn to rough it without the TV, the DVD collection, the two strollers and a playpen, the piles of sports equipment, etc.
Something else that bugs me about SUVs: when the drivers have been watching too many of those ads where the car glides over a muddy field, a desert, a pile of rocks, or a mountaintop. It's just an ad. It doesn't mean you can make U-turns over lane dividers when there's a traffic jam up ahead, or drive over those pie-wedges of grass when you realize too late that you've missed your exit. But hey, why stop there? Why not just drive a straight line from your house to your job? After all, if your car doesn't need roads, why use them?
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My #1 pet peeve, after having just been awakend from a sound sleep again, is people letting their dogs bark!
I have a neighbor like that. It's a decent dog, but they'll just leave it outside in the cold and rain, and he'll bark because he's probably miserable. For Pete's sake, build a damn doghouse at least!
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Add anyone that talks like fiddy cen, sorry, 50 cent. Those people make me so bloody angry
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I hate people who are fake. Who's beliefs rely soully on those around them.
Lifted cars. How stupid are those? They look dumb and they are gas guzzlers!
People who use the word gay as in "Well that is gay!" about things they don't like, how rude is that? This is just as bad as calling somebody the N word, or descriminating somebody because of their religion.
another thing, i hate reversed racism. Why is it bad for somebody to joke about the bad things about a black person, but its all fun and games when a black person jokes about the downfalls of white people?
ugh... now i'm all worked up 
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