Pet Peeves

fodroy · Post by **fodroy** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 11:03 pm

the poo germs aren't harmless. those can make you sick.

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 11:50 pm

fodroy wrote:the poo germs aren't harmless. those can make you sick.

Now there's a band name -
...Ladies and Gentlemen - I give you - THE POO GERMS!!!!

Dan-O from Five-O · Post by **Dan-O from Five-O** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 11:56 pm

fodroy wrote:the poo germs aren't harmless. those can make you sick.

6) Germaphobes. I'm with C-Hack on this, most of them are harmless and exposure in small amounts keeps your immune system active enough to fight the more serious ones.
7) Anti-Bacterial Soap. Do you germaphobes realize by using (overusing) this you're breaking down your own ability to fight off disease? It's great when you're handling food, but everytime you wash your hands? No thanks Mr. Hughes.

Dan-O from Five-O · Post by **Dan-O from Five-O** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 12:01 am

Caravan Ray wrote:
fodroy wrote:the poo germs aren't harmless. those can make you sick.
Now there's a band name -
...Ladies and Gentlemen - I give you - THE POO GERMS!!!!

Ironic given your signature, and do we actually have to use the word "poo"? Can't we just say Shite?

JonPorobil · Post by **JonPorobil** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 12:29 am

Bjam wrote:
c hack wrote:Well, I just hope you're getting a cool bike (which in my mind doesn't include Harleys and pocket rockets, but that's just me, and I'm by no means hardcore).
Of course! The parentals won't let me get some little thing anyway, as they're worried some guy in an SUV will run me off the road if I'm on anything below 800cc-ish. Yay for getting a motorcycle that goes 'vroom' real loud.

Wait, how old are you? Your parents are restricting what kind of motorcycle you can get?

In the grocery store several months ago, I heard a couple of middle-aged parents talking. This was the bit I heard as I passed by:

"...and I just had to put my foot down and tell her, if she's not a senior next year, then I'm not going to buy her that new car. And I know it's a big stress, what with the baby and all, but..."

I drifted out of earshot. Therefore, I begin my list with

Incompetent parents
Spoiled people

Also:

People who think that "Y'all" is singular, and that its respective plural is "All y'all."
Swivelchair warriors (you know... people who throw random critisisms everywhere in the hopes that their bitching from their computer will make people realize that they're all inferior?)

fodroy · Post by **fodroy** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 1:10 am

when people use big words to make themselves sound smart, especially while attempting to explain something that's already complex and possibly even abstract in nature.

c hack · Post by **c hack** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 1:18 am

Generic wrote:In the grocery store several months ago, I heard a couple of middle-aged parents talking. This was the bit I heard as I passed by:

"...and I just had to put my foot down and tell her, if she's not a senior next year, then I'm not going to buy her that new car. And I know it's a big stress, what with the baby and all, but..."

I drifted out of earshot. Therefore, I begin my list with

Incompetent parents
Spoiled people

I just feel bad for these kinda people.

the Jazz · Post by **the Jazz** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 1:29 am

Getting so caught up in mocking 1337 that I become just as moronic and annoying as the people I'm mocking.

Using things like bulleted lists, underlines, footnotes, and fancy title pages to disguise how badly written and/or argued an essay or article is.

Pretty much anyone on the bus or subway has done or will do something to piss me the fuck off. But particularly, people who crowd the doors on the subway and start coming in before everyone gets out.

People who buy big bottles of water to drink during the day, when they could just get a little one and fill it up from water fountains, but noooo, they have to have SPECIAL water.

Modern poetry. How do you write something with no rhyme or meter, using everyday language and probably a lot of random line breaks, and pass it off as a poem?

Bjam · Post by **Bjam** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 5:30 am

Wait, how old are you? Your parents are restricting what kind of motorcycle you can get?

Young enough that I still have to legally live in the house.

j$ · Post by j$ » Fri Nov 12, 2004 5:47 am

Bjam wrote:
Wait, how old are you? Your parents are restricting what kind of motorcycle you can get?
Young enough that I still have to legally live in the house.

I misread this as 'legally drive in the house', which is a nice image.

j$

j$ · Post by j$ » Fri Nov 12, 2004 5:49 am

the Jazz wrote: People who buy big bottles of water to drink during the day, when they could just get a little one and fill it up from water fountains, but noooo, they have to have SPECIAL water.

Agreed. Actually, the whole bottled still water thing. Especially people who buy it in restaraunts and bars. i mean come on, what are you paying for? At least drink something with bubbles in it. Get some money's worth.

The fact I can't spell resteraunts the same way twice in the same post.

People who try and justify their own hang-ups as reasonable, 'everyone thinks this way' standpoints. any form of deflection, really.

People who complain but don't recognise that they are most guilty of the things they are complaining about

Da Jazz wrote:Modern poetry. How do you write something with no rhyme or meter, using everyday language and probably a lot of random line breaks, and pass it off as a poem?

People who dismiss modern poetry as 'not being poetry'. In fact people who talk in terms of 'modern' poetry at all. Ha!

j$

Mogosagatai · Post by **Mogosagatai** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 5:58 am

When people say "______ is dead," in reference to some widespread idea. (God, rock, punk, etc.) No it's not. What you mean is, "______ is not as popular as it used to be."

Kapitano · Post by **Kapitano** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 6:33 am

People who say they went to the university of life. Usually because they took the course in advanced ignorance.

People who say "You're just arguing semantics." when the issue is a semantic one.

People who say "I'm not racist, but foreigners don't belong in our country."

People who use honesty as an excuse for rudeness.

People who find profound meaning in television shows.

People who say "What made you turn gay?"

People who use the word 'gay' as a general term of disapproval.

People who assume that when you use a word they don't know, you're doing it specifically to insult them.

Kamakura · Post by **Kamakura** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 7:36 am

what is a 'panglossian paradigm'? Are you using words I don't know to insult me? Hmmm...

MalachiConstant · Post by **MalachiConstant** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 8:25 am

j$ wrote: The fact I can't spell resteraunts the same way twice in the same post.

j$

I used the misspell it all the time, then I learned a mneumonic. Think "Rest Our Ant", then change "Our" to "Aur". Restaurant.

Kapitano · Post by **Kapitano** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 8:39 am

Sorry! I didn't see the irony there.

Doctor Pangloss was a character in Voltaire's novel 'Candide'. He insisted that whatever happened - even if it was horrible - it was all really for the best.

By extension, a theory is panglossian if it insists that there are no imperfections in the world. Anything that looks like an imperfection is just a misunderstood feature of a universe that may not be absolutely perfect, but is as near perfect as it could feasibly be, within the constraints of physical laws.

A paradigm is, loosely, a mindset - a way of looking at the world.

A spandrel is an architectural feature of churches. It looks like it's there for aesthetic reasons, but in fact it's just a consequence of the limitations of the building materials.

The naturalist Stephen Jay Gould argued in his essay 'The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm' that there is a pervasive panglossian mindset in the biological sciences. A habit of looking at a body part or biological process and saying "This is the best possible design. We have to explain why, although it doesn't look optimal, it actually is."

He used the word 'spandrel' to describe characteristics in living organisms that look like they should be functional, but are in fact just purposeless consequences of messy, unplanned, ad hoc evolutionary adaptations.

c hack · Post by **c hack** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 9:17 am

the Jazz wrote:People who buy big bottles of water to drink during the day, when they could just get a little one and fill it up from water fountains, but noooo, they have to have SPECIAL water.

I would agree with this, but say, 600 years ago, all the water was unpolluted. So there was no need to buy special water. Now, especially in big cities, tap water can not only taste foul, but be genuinely bad for you (long term). All these people want is clean water -- the kind that used to be free until "progress." I don't think that's being crazy.

the Jazz wrote:Modern poetry. How do you write something with no rhyme or meter, using everyday language and probably a lot of random line breaks, and pass it off as a poem?

Now you're just making yourself look stupid

Kapitano wrote:People who find profound meaning in television shows.

That's too bad. You're missing out. I've seen many shows that are way more profound than dribble like "The English Patient." Several episodes of Taxi, one or two of Firefly, a bunch of All in the Family, a lot of The Twilight Zone, the list goes on and on.

Justincombustion · Post by **Justincombustion** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 9:36 am

People who say "__________is SOOO 5 minutes ago"

Bell Green · Post by **Bell Green** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 10:31 am

People who stand in the doorway when it's busy, and seem annoyed when you brush past them.

People who say "partner" instead of husband, wife, girlfriend, boyfriend, lover etc.

People who make quote signs with their hands.

"It's more than my jobsworth" kind of people

Those who change statements into questions by a change in intonation (originates in Australia, I think).

People who leave their mobiles on during meetings, or worse still, answer them.

Drivers who don't signal.

Fat girls showing their midriffs, especially in winter.

Boy racers.

People who make a huge effort to overtake you, then go slower than you were going in the first place.

Queue jumpers.

People with luggage on the tube (why can't they get a f****** taxi).

Middle aged women wearing teenage fashions.

Baseball caps. (They're ok if you actually play baseball.)

Guys who tie the arms of their sweaters around their necks on summer evenings.

Tourists in Leicester Square (Leysesstar Skwaar).

People who don't exercise.

Junk food fiends - they seem to actually like the stuff.

Vegetarians who say they eat chicken or fish.

New age hippy types. Dolphin, crystal, starchild, rainbow.

Non paying bidders (e-bay)

"Wasn't he in . . ." - shut up!

People who ask you what you're reading, when you're reading.

Flakes. (Not Cadbury's)

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Post by jb » Fri Nov 12, 2004 10:52 am

Some of your pet peeves are driving some of mine out of hiding in my head:

People who dismiss all of television because of some television, when they don't dismiss all of cinema because of some cinema or all magazines because of some magazines or all books because of some books.

People who either think they're insulted or start mocking you because you used a "long" word. Get. A. Fucking. Dictionary.

People who start mocking you because you used a "long" word, when they know what it means. In our society it's not cool to sound intelligent in some circles. "What did you say? 'corporeal"? What does that mean" OH SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU KNOW WHAT IT MEANS. You know, Conan O'Brien does this sometimes, and I think Jon Stewart is occasionally guilty of something like it too.

People who can't taste the difference in water from various places, and think that I can't either.

People who are irritated by things they haven't really tried to understand. Perhaps this is a corollary to "people who don't realize that they may not know everything that matters about a particular topic". Modern poetry for example. Related to "people who get annoyed by things that they never need to encounter in a large enough dose to justify their annoyance."

Bell: I dunno about where you are, but here a Taxi to the airport is EXPENSIVE, where a ride on a subway costs like $1.50. If I had 4 large suitcases then I'd get a taxi. But two? No way man, I'll take the train thankyouverymuch and save myself $30.

erik · Post by **erik** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 11:20 am

People who try and get me to repeat a joke, especially one that I came up with. It's funny when it's unexpected. Also, I'm not your monkey.

c hack · Post by **c hack** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 12:00 pm

Bell Green wrote:Baseball caps. (They're ok if you actually play baseball.)

Now you're just getting silly.

jb wrote:Bell: I dunno about where you are, but here a Taxi to the airport is EXPENSIVE, where a ride on a subway costs like $1.50. If I had 4 large suitcases then I'd get a taxi. But two? No way man, I'll take the train thankyouverymuch and save myself $30.

I'll be carrying 3 or 4 pieces of luggage (if you count my bow) when I go home for thanksgiving, and I'm taking the fucking subway. The other riders can pony up $30 cab fare if they don't like my luggage, or kiss my ass.