Pet Peeves

[doc]

Pets pet Peeves ; If you have a dog like a Mastiff, Pit Bull or Doberman why call it Fluffy or Cuddles ? Give the poor mutt some dignity ! On the same note why call a teacup Yorkie "Killer" ?

I like cats but put them away when a repairman comes to your house, if I wanted my gonads kneaded I want a human to do it.

Let someone know if your exotic pet is out of it's cage and loose or that expensive spider might get squished.

Human peeves; I'm happy you're intrested in politics, but if you don't know me don't go irrate when I tell you I'm to busy to debate right now, especially if we're total strangers on the street.

I'm a southern gentleman, I hold doors for women and the elderly, if you have a problem TOUGH

Driveing, useing a cell phone and putting on your makeup should not be done at the same time.

Foul talking women are a turn off to me.

If I fixed your AC when it's over a 100 degrees outside, don't bitch about the bill.

[SmokestackJones]

I'm a southern gentleman, I hold doors for women and the elderly, if you have a problem TOUGH

Hey Doc, uh, I assume yer a "southern gentleman" in the Hunter S. Thomson way, right? :D

-SJ

[doc]

Hey Doc, uh, I assume yer a "southern gentleman" in the Hunter S. Thomson way, right? :D

-SJ

Nope in my own way, what was Hunters way ?

[Limper]

If I had a chihuahua I'd name it Gormoth Souldrinker.

[doc]

if I had a chihuahua I'ld hang myself or call it Limper

[Limper]

if I had a chihuahua I'ld hang myself or call it Limper


Chihuahua's make me laugh. Give it a dangerous sounding name and I'll laugh harder.

[doc]

Chihuahua's make me laugh. Give it a dangerous sounding name and I'll laugh harder.

My MIL had one named Chi-Chi, lil rat wouldn't crap outside had to use a newspaper (or my shoe). Eye's bulged out looked like he was being sodomized by a Great Dane

[Dark Jezter]

People who drive slow in the left lane.

Road work that drags on forever, causing traffic on the road to slow to a crawl.

Internet message board geeks who, when presented with a picture of a hot female celebrity, proceed to act like she's beneath their standards. This includes the chubby chasers who claim that every actress or model with a slender build needs a "sammich" as well as the sci-fi/fantasy fanboys who can't find a woman attractive unless she's been in a genre show. Although I will admit that I find these people amusing in a way because if they actually did have a chance to score with the hot women they bash, they'd probably blow their load before they even got their pants off.

Fashionable nonconformists - the people who instinctively sneer at anything that's popular so that they can project an image of being cool and non-mainstream.

EN World assnuggets who act like WotC is creating 4e out of malice.

People who bring an infant or toddler to a PG-13 or R-rated movie, and when the child talks loudly or starts crying they refuse to take it out.

The above rule also applies to people who bring crying infants to resturants.

Socks with sandals. You might as well be wearing a t-shirt that says "dork."

Those awful "Truth About Smoking" ads. I'd consider taking up smoking out of spite just because those ads are so bad.

[Cat of Ulthar]

People who stand still and have a good look at their new surroundings immediately behind sliding doors or at the top of an escalator.

[Xavier Lang]

People who stand still and have a good look at their new surroundings immediately behind sliding doors or at the top of an escalator.

My friends tease me because I drag the group out of the way so often to clear things up so that we aren't blocking the paths of others.

[doc]

Asshats that when caught speeding or driveing like a maddman is pissed cause they were stopped.

Dipshits that demand thier Freedom of speach but won't let others share thier views

[Varaj]

People that hold their silver wear wrong.
People that lick their fingers.
Noisy eaters, slurping, smacking, etc.
For that last one I know some people I just leave the room if they are eating. I can't stand to be around them when they are eating, but it is my deal so I don't make a scene I just leave.

[FeatsofClay]

Noisy eaters, slurping, smacking, etc.
For that last one I know some people I just leave the room if they are eating. I can't stand to be around them when they are eating, but it is my deal so I don't make a scene I just leave.



Quoted for truth.

Some of this is bolded where multiple pet peeves overlap.

“You know what you should do?” Yes. And I am doing it. 1 in 10,000 of the people who tell me this (and here I am speaking only in reference to those who give me unsolicited business advice) has a decent idea. The other 9,999 are evidently immune to business common sense or there is an elaborate group prank I haven’t caught on to.

“That’s bad for you, you know?” Yes, yes I have heard rumors that smoking this cigarette while drinking a double bourbon dumped into a diet soda isn’t exactly Jack Lalane type behavior. This goes double for the grossly obese people who chastise me for some health choice. My smoking may just kill me but it takes an average of 7 years off your life. I have worked with older populations enough to m=not be too scared of losing years 80-87.

Niche sports fans who drone about their favorite spectator train wreck I like an obscurish sport too but I didn’t just spend an hour talking about iriminage did I? I don’t care about your backswing or your favorite driver’s pit crew chief. When you said “Do you watch NASCAR?” and I said never it wasn’t an opening to pitch the sports exciting finer points on the off chance my life hasn’t been touched by the awesomeness that is ‘Go fast, turn left’

People who expect me to donate a piece to their charity I do this a lot. Because people have seen my work auctioned for charity and seen me organize charity art auctions for causes they take offense if I won’t do something for their charity. Hell, if I already support the Union Mission, For the Love of Children, the Breast Cancer Walk, Center for International Understanding, The Heifer Project, and the schools I must just be pounding the pavement looking for other ways to get my work in my collectors hands without making any money myself, right? Feel free to ask. Feel free not to evince shock if I don’t have the time to produce a custom consignment order for your charity free of charge while running 4 businesses. And don’t tell me “It is tax deductible.” Because A. I don’t make enough to worry about deductions, I am an artist. And B. The government doesn’t count any artist’s skill as having any value whatsoever and only allows deduction of materials expense. So that 3 dollars in clay I just turned into a $200 pot gets me shit but one less person who needs my work bad enough to pay for it.

[The Winslow]

People who stand still and have a good look at their new surroundings immediately behind sliding doors or at the top of an escalator.
On the same order of things, people who stand still in front of the tramway's doors on the outside, preventing those inside from leaving. Apparently, the expect passengers to just teleport away once the tram is at the correct station...

[Glass]

Oh, I shoulder-block those people out of my way on the T.

Hipsters, for me. What Dark Jezter was talking about, "oh, you're popular now, suck!!!!11!!one!". I've met one of them I could stand, and that's because I didn't realize he was a hipster, and he's generally pretty mild.

[Dacke]

People who think it's OK to put their mailboxes deep inside their properties. Or worse, not having a mailbox at all, just a mail slot in the front door, which of course is half a floor up from the ground.

Mailboxes should be at the very edge of the property, so you don't have to get off your bike and walk to put a newspaper in it. Fucking barbarians.

[EhtoZed]

Socks with sandals. You might as well be wearing a t-shirt that says "dork."I agree 100%, and I have noticed a disturbing trend. On the way to work everyday I pass a number of school bus stops and one things I've noticed is that high school girls, usually the most fashion conscious, have taken to wearing socks with their sandals. Until this it was only geeks and dorks pulling this faux pas, but now... I can only hope this trend goes the way of the leg warmer sooner than later.

[Cat of Ulthar]

Women who phone to say that they don't have heating/hot water and absolutely refuse to do anything you ask them to on account of them being a woman. "Have you reset your boiler?" "No, my husband isn't at home!" "How high is the water pressure?" "I don't know, I am just a woman on my own!"

The best one yet was a couple of days ago: "Ok madam, you best take the plug out of its socket..." "I cannot do that! I am not a man you know!!!" :rolleyes:
I mean, how does she hoover?:confused:

[doc]

Women who phone to say that they don't have heating/hot water and absolutely refuse to do anything you ask them to on account of them being a woman. "Have you reset your boiler?" "No, my husband isn't at home!" "How high is the water pressure?" "I don't know, I am just a woman on my own!"

The best one yet was a couple of days ago: "Ok madam, you best take the plug out of its socket..." "I cannot do that! I am not a man you know!!!" :rolleyes:
I mean, how does she hoover?:confused:

On her knees with a bored look in her eyes ???

Not replaceing the toilet paper in the company bathroom

[The Winslow]

The best one yet was a couple of days ago: "Ok madam, you best take the plug out of its socket..." "I cannot do that! I am not a man you know!!!" :rolleyes:

"Madam, the recommended usage is to use your hands, rather than your sexual organs, to grab the plug and draw it away from the socket. In fact, it is not recommended to try to pry it using one's own penis as a crowbar, as this could only lead to embarrassing explications at the nearest hospital."

[Space Cadet B^3]

People that hold their silver wear wrong.there's a wrong way to hold silverware? :confused:

[Cat of Ulthar]

Yup. See Helga's post before your one.

[Varaj]

there's a wrong way to hold silverware? :confused:

http://www.wikihow.com/Hold-a-Spoon
http://www.wikihow.com/Use-a-Fork-and-Knife-Properly

[Space Cadet B^3]

http://www.wikihow.com/Hold-a-Spoon
http://www.wikihow.com/Use-a-Fork-and-Knife-Properly
Wow... I've been doing it wrong a long time. Sorry if I've ever peeved you with it, I might as well have been given a small shovel and pitchfork.

[Varaj]

Wow... I've been doing it wrong a long time. Sorry if I've ever peeved you with it, I might as well have been given a small shovel and pitchfork.

Pet peeves are by definition (at least how I use the word) childish annoyances. All the indicate is an issue I have, nothing about the other person.

[Space Cadet B^3]

Pet peeves are by definition (at least how I use the word) childish annoyances. All the indicate is an issue I have, nothing about the other person.
Well, I don't know if we've actually shared very many meals at a table too, it's a little harder to do when we were scarfing chinese in your old home's basement during a game.

[Janos]

http://www.wikihow.com/Hold-a-Spoon
http://www.wikihow.com/Use-a-Fork-and-Knife-Properly

Bad articles.

Proper American etiquette requires you cut the pieces as they suggest in the article, but then transfer the fork to your right hand to eat.

British etiquette is apparently totally different, but I'm not as familiar with that.

The spoon article is better, but you should draw the spoon out away from your body and at a slight angle so it drips off before leaving the bowl. If you are using the proper spoon for the job, that leaves approximately one mouthful left after the draining process.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_etiquette

A much better article on fork use.

- Still owes his parents a painful death for 6 years of 8:00 am saturday morning etiquette classes.