Pet Peeves

[The Tickler]

What are some of the little things that annoy or aggravate you?

Me:

People who eat with their mouthes open.
Having to plunge the toilet.
When a door is closed, but not properly shut.
Canadian stereotypes.
French-Canadian stereotypes. No, I'm not a separatist, and no, I don't worship Céline Dion!
IKEA knives that snap when I cut cheese.
My camera battery's life being so short.
Those who try to look smart by placing commas everywhere in sentences, but don't have a clue what they're doing.
One-word posts, or posts where someone agrees or disagrees with you without any justification. Spam, basically.
Pop-ups.
Telemarketers.
Old drivers.
Paris Hilton.

[goofystitch]

I don't have too many pet peeves, but the thing that absolutely gets under my skin is when people talk during movies at the movie theater or during gripping shows like "Lost." It bugs me to no end. I also hate smacking and slurping. My brothers eat everything so loud. Even quiet food like spaghetti comes out as big annoying smacks. And they slurp the milk off the spoon when eating cereal. Drives me up the wall! Other than that, I don't have many pet peeves.

[blackcauldron85]

Since moving to Florida, a huge pet peeve of mine is when people say, "You're from Boston!"...I'm from Massachusetts, but I'm not from Boston. People must know that the whole state of Massachusetts isn't Boston. I'm from a suburb of Boston, sure...my husband is from a town that's closer to the state of Rhode Island than the city of Boston...it just irritates me!

[2099net]

Two Party Politics Systems
Because most of the time {A} you don't like either party but have no choice but to vote for one (or not vote at all, which more and more people are doing by the way) and {B} both parties want to attract the middle-ground "swing voters" so end up being virtually the same on lots of policies anyway.

Crusty Pasta on the Top of Lasagna
You know when a bit of the top layer of lasagna isn't covered up by the sauce, and it comes out of the oven all dried up and hard? I hate that. I just cannot eat it. It literally makes me feel a little sick just thinking about it. Yet I love the rest of the lasagna, all moist and delicious!

People who write stupid reviews on Amazon.Com
Such as "Don't let your children see Robbie the Reindeer because the female reindeer have breasts". Yes, and so does Olive Oyl, Ariel the Little Mermaid, Teela, and... just about every other animated female over the age of 16 in the history of animation!

Songs That End With Just A Simple Fade Out Over Repeating Melodies and/or Lyrics
What? You write 2-5 minutes of absolutely amazing, fantasic, wonderful music. You fill the lyrics with wit, energy or emotion. And all you can do to end it is a lame "repeat to fade"? Give me a big, definitive ending anyday.

DVDs
Becuase they are shiny, and make me spend far too much money on them.

[Lars Vermundsberget]

The fact that sooo many people misspell the title of a certain Disney animated "classic" from 1961 with more than a hundred dogs in it.

[TheSequelOfDisney]

The fact that sooo many people misspell the title of a certain Disney animated "classic" from 1961 with more than a hundred dogs in it.

That bugs me to! C'mon people is it hard to use the English language?! Well, it is one of the hardest languages if it's not your native "tounge," at least that's what I hear.

But still, just write it out, it isn't that difficult.

[Siren]

Pet peeves at work (I work in a pet shop/grooming shop)
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People who want us to make their yorkie look like a bichon. I'm a groomer, not a miracle worker.
Dogs who bark. All. Day. Long.
Dogs who try to jump off my grooming table. Do you WANT to break a leg?
People who want us to shave their long haired cats (if you want a short hair cat BUY a short hair cat!)
People who get lion cuts on their persians.
People who come in and think we are a docking/cropping service. Some redneck moron brought his pit bull puppy into us and asked us to cut its tail off. Its 12 WEEKS OLD! That's cruel! That should be done AT BIRTH....and pit bulls aren't even suppost to get their tail docked.....TWIT.
Customers who think they know EVERYTHING about a particular animal and they have all the wrong info. Like "ferrets have no backbone" WTF are they smoking?
Customers who critize and then make false reports to the state about our care of baby birds. Like "The macaw's chest was swollen!"....Its called a CROP you moron, when its swollen it means we FED the bird.


People in general
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People that think EVERY animated movie is Disney.
People who complained to Walmart because they say "damn" in Last Unicorn and had it editted out on new DVDs.
Parents who let their kids watch a movie without spending the time to research it first and then b***h that it wasn't what they expected (Happy Feet for example)
People who think its cute and funny to joke about my religion. I'm Wicca and the joke "Ooooo, are you gonna put a spell on me?" is so over and done, its deader then the victims of Salem.
People who think animated movies are just for kids
People who litter

I'll add more later.

[Jasmine1022]

POINTLESS MOVEMENT

when I am sitting in a room and somebody is bobbing their leg up and down or knocking their knees together or flexing their toes it drives me INSANE! seeing it out of the corner of my eye drives me up the wall.

LOUD NOISES

i have very sensitive ears. i can hear a lot of things. so when there is a really loud, constant noise (or a really shrill one) it bothers the **** out of me. my computer at school makes this high-pitched wailing noise and it comes from the power cord (dont ask me WHY) and it's really obnoxious.

BEING POKED

i hate it. i hate being poked. it just bothers me to no end.

GUM CHEWING

i myself am a gum chewer. HOWEVER, i dont do it with my mouth open and i dont CHOMP on it. i'll admit that i pop it but that's not going to stop.

PEOPLE EATING

my dad has to make sure that he has some of everything in his mouth at once and he has to be sure that he has enough to last until the end. and he eats, like, every last thing. my friend mike eats SOOOO slow, and his food can NOT touch. at all. if it does he flips out. and just the sounds people make when they eat. it's kinda gross.

i think that's it....

[PixarFan2006]

People who pop their gum-This is one of the most irritating sounds in the world. It's worse when you have to hear it in a classroom for 90 minutes.

Birds Chirping-Yeah I know it's nice at first, but it gets really annoying really fast.

People who bash good movies- I hate it when people put down good movies and give bad movies good ratings. It happens, believe me.

[skyler888]

People who walk slow!

[PixarFan2006]

People who DRIVE slow
People who TALK ON THEIR CELL PHONES WHILE DRIVING
People who SMOKE WHILE DRIVING
People who EAT WHILE DRIVING
People who DRINK WHILE DRIVING

Sorry for yelling. I just hate when people do these things though.

[numba1lostboy]

People who can't spell my last name after knowing me for a long time (it's Hofmann, not Hofman, not Hoffmann, not Hoffman. Get. It. Right.).

People who misspell in general.

(I cannot hear out of my left ear) People who ask, "So if I shout into your left ear, you won't be able to hear it?" (Sound travels, moron.)

"Aksed."

People who think every animated movie is Disney-made.

People who judge Harry Potter without knowing what they're talking about.

People who see no harm in taking their young children to PG-13 and R rated movies.

Rubber/Latex gloves. Everything about them. The sound they make, the feeling on the skin. Everything about them makes me shiver.

People who don't flush public toilets (Is it really so difficult?).

AT WORK AT THE MOVIE THEATRE:
People who ask for Dr. Pepper. We don't have that. We have Mr. Pibb. And it is clearly stated.

People who can't find butter and straws.

People who give me loads of change that I have to count out.

People who leave without signing their receipt.

People who order hot dogs. They smell disgusting and a b*tch to get.


All for now...

[TheSequelOfDisney]

Let's see:

Gum Chewers -

I go to school, like most teens. I cannot stand gum and the people who chew them. If there is someone in front of me and I see there mouth is moving, I want to throw something at them.

iPods -

Same thing as the gum chewing. The students should pay attention during class, not listen to music. They will get a much better education, and the teachers would tolerate them more, if they just sit in their seat and pay attention to what is going on in the world around them. Geez.

Bad Clarinetists Playing High Notes -

It sounds like loud screeching. It's terrible! Luckily, I do not screech out my high notes and they sound wonderful. But anyone below like the 6th chair sounds horrible on their high notes and they should most definitely take it down an octave or two.

Bad Clarinetists Playing the Clarinet -

C'mon, just get a private lessons teacher. And if you don't want one, then why are you playing the clarinet?

People Who Smoke -

I cannot stand smoke and I cannot stand smokers. The smell of smoke makes my insides quivver. And the people who smoke smell disgustingly disgusting and really need to take a shower/bath or something to get that terrible smell off of themselves, their clothes, their kids, their everything.

People Who Buy Fullscreen Movies -

I was at the store one day, and some lady and her child were looking for "Cars" at Wal-Mart. All that Wal-Mart had was the Widescreen DVD. The child said, "There it is!" and his mother said, "Yes that's it, but it is in widescreen and that has 'bars'." I wanted to literally take the cart that I had and shove it into her. Is she unintelligent? C'mon, Fullscreen is completely incorrect. I wanted to tell her that she is losing 35 to 45% of the film, but I just decided to walk away from the situation and let her go and see if she can find the Fullscreen DVD. Maybe it's just women?

That's it for now!

[Flanger-Hanger]

Public places (eg. restaurants and stores) where the background music is WAY to loud.

People who have no idea how to take care of a dog or pet.

People who do not clean up after themselves.

People who take kids under age 3 to places like the movies or Disney World and have no idea how to raise kids in the first place (it ruins everyone else's fun).

[Big Disney Fan]

For me, I'd say:

Tailgating
Loud places
Bathrooms with no walls between the urinals
People violating my personal space
Pepsi
Lunch at later than 3:00 in the afternoon
Having a lot of responsibilities
Long-term school projects
When people can't hear me when I talk normally
Smoking
Jet lag
Always having to bend my back (six years ago, I had back surgery for kyphosis(sp?) and I wanted to avoid bending my back as much as possible)
High temperatures when it's not time for them to occur yet

That's all I can think of for now.

[PixarFan2006]

iPods -

Same thing as the gum chewing. The students should pay attention during class, not listen to music. They will get a much better education, and the teachers would tolerate them more, if they just sit in their seat and pay attention to what is going on in the world around them. Geez.

People Who Smoke -

I cannot stand smoke and I cannot stand smokers. The smell of smoke makes my insides quivver. And the people who smoke smell disgustingly disgusting and really need to take a shower/bath or something to get that terrible smell off of themselves, their clothes, their kids, their everything.

People Who Buy Fullscreen Movies -

I was at the store one day, and some lady and her child were looking for "Cars" at Wal-Mart. All that Wal-Mart had was the Widescreen DVD. The child said, "There it is!" and his mother said, "Yes that's it, but it is in widescreen and that has 'bars'." I wanted to literally take the cart that I had and shove it into her. Is she unintelligent? C'mon, Fullscreen is completely incorrect. I wanted to tell her that she is losing 35 to 45% of the film, but I just decided to walk away from the situation and let her go and see if she can find the Fullscreen DVD. Maybe it's just women?

That's it for now!

I am with you on all these.

1.People who have Ipods at school annoy me because they are being show-offs, even though I own an MP3 player myself.
2.The smell of smoke annoys me too. I see some students from my high school smoking when they are off campus.
3.Full Screen is not that big of a pet peeve for me, but I do agree on the part of losing a good percentage of the pictutre. full screen is worse than having black bars surround your tv.

[QueenRahel]

ugh...people who talk on their cell phone and drive is a big one
people who chew with their mouths open
people who talk super loud and youre right in front of them
people who say like like every other word
people who walk really slow in a row in the mall, or anywhere blocking us who have somewhere to go, esp while driving...
people who smoke cigarettes, ugh!
and....people who have screaming babies and dont take them out of the establishment so everyone can be tortured
and lines at the bank or anywhere, but maybe disney as long as its not too long!

[Prudence]

I hate it when people can't go one sentence without demeaning someone else.

I also hate it when people brag every chance they get. "In my AP classes, I have to do this and this and..." Guess what, sweetie? I'm ahead a grade and in Advanced Placement classes, but I simply say, "I'm working on an English essay." You don't need to reply by saying, "I'M working on my ADVANCED PLACEMENT homework." That's ridiculous.

On the flip side, the people who act like immature 6-year-olds and blame it all on "fad disorders" are awful. Not only is their behavior stupid, but blaming it on whatever disorder is "in" is offensive.

[jeremy88]

When People say "Laura Croft" and not "Lara Croft"... Oh-my-gosh, my head just want's blow off...I don't mind when people say it on accident. But when people like my sister do it on purpose because she knows it annoyes the heck out of me!
And I get even more mad, when I read magazine articles and they spell it "Laura"

Other then that I don't have a lot of Pet Peeves.

I hate ciggarettes and all types of other smokable products. I don't hate the people who smoke cigarettes since I'm related to a lot of them. But please don't smoke around me my lungs don't need to be charred anymore.

Oh and I can't stand when people say "Disney movies are for little kids." Thats another head blowing off annoyance.

[Escapay]

Pet Peeves in General:
People who hate when I pop my gum.

People who smoke outside of the designated smoking areas at Walt Disney World. Do you really need nicotine that often?

People who smoke and aren't considerate enough to blow the smoke *away* from my face when I'm talking to them. (Some of my friends smoke, and know to turn away, but some just blow wherever, assuming I don't care.)

People who, in the presence of smokers, make haughty "cough-cough" noises that literally interpret into "Eww, get away from me you filthy smoker! You're poisoning me and everyone around you with that stuff, I hope you die quickly so that there's less smoking in the world!"

People who like Pan and Scan because "those black bars are annoying"

People who talk when watching a movie. I especially hate when it's at home, and so I turn on the subtitles. Then they say, "Why'd you put in the subtitles! They're distracting!" And I'd simply say, "Well, I can't hear the movie since there's so much talk." Then they'd shut up for like two seconds, then go back to talking.

People who blast their music for the sake of blasting their music

People walking out of public restrooms without washing their hands. At least use some purell or hand sanitizer!

Telemarketers. Sometimes I just wanna pretend they called a phone sex line, but I'd be too chicken to try and moan seductively on a phone.

People who can't finish a sentence without using a swear word.

People in front of you who walk slow, and you can't get around them because they all walk next to each other and it's a small hallway.

People who don't GET OUT OF MY WAY when I'm walking.

People who wear socks with their sandals. The point of sandals is NOT to wear socks, dammmit!

Pet Peeves at Home:
When somebody uses a fork/spoon/knife, but rather than place it in the fork/spoon/knife container in the sink*, they simply leave it on the plate
*we handwash everything with a sponge and soap/water, as it's cheaper and our dishwasher is more of a storage unit for tupperware than anything else.

When someone wants to come into my room, but it's locked, so they simply get a key and unlock it. It's LOCKED for a REASON. I like my privacy. I don't like people coming in unannounced to go, "Whatcha doing?" or "I wanna watch a DVD"

Speaking of DVDs, when the family says, "Let's watch a DVD!", have me go upstairs to get a few that I think they'll like (rather hard since most of my movies are old movies and romcoms), and then when I bring them down, they complain ("This movie? That movie? THAT movie?").

Pet Peeves at School:
When someone says, "Oh, you major in theatre?" just because I hang out with the theatre kids. It's called a hobby, so no I don't major in theatre. I'm doing Education, thank you very much.

When I'm trying to take a nap in the Green Room but a group of theatre kids are watching "Austin Powers" for the millionth time and laughing at each asinine joke after the other.

Whenever this one girl talks nonstop to anyone who'd listen, about her lousy job at McDonalds. Either that or how she wants to be a performer, not a backup singer.

Pet Peeves at UD:
People who don't do searches, then get mad when someone points out an older topic about the same thing. Also, people who don't do searches, then makes a big apology post saying "OMG, I didn't know! Don't hurt me, I'm new!". We don't bite, we're trying to help.

People who talk about slipcovers as if they were God's Gift to DVDs.

People who badmouth Chicken Little based on either no viewings of the film, one viewing of the film (with the mindset of "I'm going in to this movie hating it because it's such a rip-off"), or simply because it's CGI and CGI isn't "true Disney".

People who blindly praise anything Disney does just because it's Disney, and won't give other studios any consideration.

People who naturally assume that just because I lay claim on pink elephants in review feedback and other posts that if they use one, they insert a not-so-witty joke saying, "Ooh! I'm stealing one of Escapay's pink elephants!"

One word, one line, or emoticon-only posters.

People who will quote a whole essay someone wrote on the merits of proper refrigerator maintenance, only to say "I soooo agree with everything !".

People who bump up topics just to announce their continued disdain for the ending of a non-Disney animated film dealing with whether or not a orphan was really the daughter of the assassinated leader of a large country in Asia.

Threads like these:
-What food did you decide not to eat today?
-What type of socks are you wearing today?
-Where were you before you came on the computer?
-Where are you going once you leave the computer?
-What do you smell like right now?
-What are you listening to?
-What did you not listen to in order to listen to what you're listening to now?
-What movie did you pass on?
-What movie did you watch since you passed on the other movie?
-What time is it right now?
-How do you feel?
-Are you pantsless right now?
-Do you like slipcovers?

People who recommend quotes to me for WTF/WIST.

Pet Peeves about Disney:

When someone assumes Disney is just for kids.

When someone assumes animation is just for kids.

When someone expects any animated film to be Disney.

When someone says, "Aren't you a little old to still like Disney?"

When people believe that Disney really was an anti-semitic mother-hating corporate pirate just because they read about it online.

Pet Peeves about DVDs:
Slipcovers

Lack of trailers

Slipcovers

Alternate cuts on DVD without offering the original cut as well

Slipcovers

Numbered spines, as it brings out the completist in me and makes me want to pick up the ones I don't have just to see all the numbers in order.

Slipcovers

TV shows on DVD that spread the episodes across a flipper disc, rather than shell out the $$$ for an extra couple of discs.

Slipcovers

TV shows on DVD that have original music changed or are syndicated and cut versions.

Slipcovers

Flipper discs, especially those with the movie on one side and extras on the other.

Slipcovers

Wal-Marts and Targets where the Fullscreen version of the DVD gets stocked in larger quantities than their Widescreen counterparts.

Slipcovers

Crappy titles in the $5.50 bin at Wal-Mart

Slipcovers

Higher-than-I'd-like SRPs.

Slipcovers

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