What are Your Pet Peeves?

People who say "Less" when they should say "Fewer".

OMG that's awful, R1

Monthly repeat threads like this.

When they crap all over the floor.

People who continue to post insipid phrases in every thread, believing them to be clever.

Sizemeat Verificata comes immediately to mind.

[quote]Sizemeat Verificata

I HATE that one

People with no sense of wonder and curiosity.

I hate them, R7

Republicans!

I am guilty of going through the quick checkout with a lot of crap in my cart. I've been called out (how do you spell reprimanded?) for it a couple times recently too. I stuff all my crap in a little cart so I don't feel like I'm buying a lot (and then it comes to $60 and I'm all, "what the hell did I buy?"). I love those little carts. If someone wants to start a thread on little things that have changed life for the better, I vote for little carts and the soda fridge packs.

The speling an gramer queenz on Datalounge.

Gum chewing.

JIIMMMMAAAAYYYYY!!!!!

Those slow-pokes who believe in rolling along in the left lane without moving over for people going faster. Many that I have mentioned this to (women) affect not to even know that they are not supposed to drive in the left lane except to pass...

People who won't ever take responsibility for their own: WORK --- MISTAKES --- FAILURES.

I don't get why this is such a hard concept. It's no one else's job; it's yours. DO IT. So you made a mistake, own up to it. Fix it. So things didn't turn out as you planned. Ok. Life happens. Why be a god damned child about it and deflect and blame everyone else?

JFC.

Jiggle and bounce.

Bag your own grocery checkouts: People who carefully pack each checked item into the bags they'll load into their cars instead of just putting them back into the trolley to sort out later. Yeah, motherfucker, we'll all just wait patiently in line for you to arrange everything just so.

Not limited to fraus, guys do this too. That they obviously don't give a rat's ass about the people waiting behind them makes me want to stab them.

^ I should mention they don't pay until everything's packed, so the operator has to sit there and wait too.

Store credit card machines that take forever after you scan/swipe your credit/debit card. Are they using dial-up internet?

Everyone has a sense of wonder and curiosity. It might be that they don't wonder at or are curious about the same things.

Flip flops.

[quote]^ I should mention they don't pay until everything's packed, so the operator has to sit there and wait too.

That behavior sounds like the guy is really trying to piss of everyone!

Talk parenting!! Before the pandemic, when we could still go into delis and take out places, I invariably wound up behind a FRAU who was negotiating what her toddler/child would eat. "No, Ashleigh, you don't like olives, remember? Can she just taste one of the olives? Thank YEW! See, I told you. No, baby, remember, you don't like mustard. Can she just taste the mustard? No? Well...can I get must some of the mustard in a little paper cup on the side. Thank YEW! " Everything is a negotiation!! This goes on for EVAH while the rest of us stand in line, waiting to get our order placed.

I hate those parents R23. Order for your kid godammit!!!

R23, It's pronounced, "*THENK* YEW!!". Otherwise, yes, 100% agree and loathe them ALL.

[quote]Mine are people who use self checkout at the supermarket with a FULL SHOPPING CART.

Mine is people who fill their shopping carts with their pets

[quote]Bag your own grocery checkouts: People who carefully pack each checked item into the bags they'll load into their cars instead of just putting them back into the trolley to sort out later. Yeah, motherfucker, we'll all just wait patiently in line for you to arrange everything just so.

Where I shop, it's faster to put each checked item into your bag. When people don't do that, and put the groceries in the bagging area without bagging them, that's what takes a lot of time. That's what makes people want to kill them.

r23 I could've written that post. I just want to scream at these fraus "you should've had an abortion!"

"Wine moms" who are all cutesy and twee about drinking wine. Bitch, you're a fucking alcoholic just like that old drunk at the end of the bar, no matter how you dress it up.

People who say "ran" when they should say "run".

Like "Did you ran to the store to get the milk like I asked?"

Until this moment, r30, I had never heard that particular bit of word abuse.

People who stride down the street in twos or threes and expect others coming in the opposite direction to move out of the way for them.

To quote George Carlin, it’s not so much a pet peeve as a major psychotic hatred.

Bitches who can't even spell "sizemeat verificatia" correctly.

R31, I never heard it until about two years ago, and now I'm hearing it EVERYWHERE. From news readers on TV, to coworkers. I work in tech, where we run scripts against databases, and the number of times I've heard "Did you ran... " or "I have ran", etc, etc.

And it's MOSTLY younger (under 40 people) doing it. When I corrected one co-worker, I actually had to explain how the "have" or "had" is already past tense. So you say "I have run the script" not "I have ran the script". He was confused, because he thought he was being correct about making 'run' past-tense. I had to explain the entire concept of helping verbs to him! WTF?

Literally, it's driving me nuts. I want to punch people.

[quote]Like "Did you ran to the store to get the milk like I asked?"

Reminds me of a ghastly thing they do here in my country (ENgland)

"I was sat with Tony" even people who should know better say it sometimes.

People walking around stores having conversations on their phones in SPEAKER MODE.

^^and the gym, too!

Just punch those cunts in the face!

[quote] [R31], I never heard it until about two years ago, and now I'm hearing it EVERYWHERE. From news readers on TV, to coworkers. I work in tech, where we run scripts against databases, and the number of times I've heard "Did you ran... " or "I have ran", etc, etc.

R34, can you say what geographical area you're talking about? I've never heard people use the word "ran" like that.

My pet peeve: Cars in an intersection waiving me through even though they have the right of way. I know they are just being nice, and I appreciate it. But in traffic it is more important to be reliable than nice. It makes others nervous when you don't act as expected. So when the car doesn't move and instead waves me through, other cars go instead. Pedestrians hesitate because they don't know if other cars notice the changed situation. Stop being nice and continue just doing what is expected.

R39 I hate that with a passion! The Pacific Northwest is full of bullshit behavior like that. You should see the inability of the general public to negotiate a four-way stop sign. You go, no you go, no sir, after you! The ridiculous thing is that this just slows down the traffic for everyone and frequently creates a dangerous situation. I have seen several car accidents happen when one person yields their right of way just to be nice, but it just created a dangerous surprise for other drivers.

When last night's trick is still in your bed, and then you realize you murdered him in your sleep.

[39] Hate this, so fricking stupid and dangerous

Getting in line at a 7/11 when you only have an hour for lunch and some elderly (usually African American) person decides this is the time to play 9,000 combination of their grandkids baby daddy Department of Corrections uniform number for the pick four lotto . They have all afternoon to do that shit. Worst of all , they never win! Thank goodness for COVID thinning the herd a bit !

Ha, I was on vacation in Mexico and stopped in a supermarket. The woman ahead of me was a local, and the checker gave her a supermarket lottery ticket. Without leaving the line, she scratched it off. She had won a prize of another free lottery ticket. She scratched it, and the prize was two lottery tickets. This kept repeating, she had her kids take turns scratching the tickets and picking the new tickets, it held up the line for over ten minutes. The final outcome was a win of zero pesos. If I hadn't been in vacation chill mode, I would have been enraged.

Along with “ran,” I hate when people say “had drank” or “have drank.”

[quote] My pet peeve: Cars in an intersection waiving me through even though they have the right of way.

I've gotten into an accident b/c of that. Some "nice guy" who had the right of way "waved" someone into my lane of travel. The recipient of this niceness should have looked, anyway, and not depended on the "nice guy."

My pet peeve is racist shitstains like r43

Another traffic pet peeve is use of the discretionary left turn (on green light). People in my town will not move into the intersection until the road is all clear for days. If the light turns yellow and then red, then there they are, stuck behind the line. At least if you move up, when the light turns yellow/red, you can make your left turn and clear out of the intersection.

The use of soundtrack for cast recording.

People who fill Pet Peeves threads with driving mishegas. Start your own Pet Driving Peeves thread(s).

R43 I've had that happen to me at the lottery machines twice. He buys a scratch ticket and scratches it while I'm waiting. Then buys another ticket. Told the dude I wanted to use the machine. He tells me he still has money in it. I tell him to buy his tickets and move, that no one has time to wait around for him to scratch his tickets.

[quote] I've gotten into an accident b/c of that. Some "nice guy" who had the right of way "waved" someone into my lane of travel. The recipient of this niceness should have looked, anyway, and not depended on the "nice guy."

Oh honey. That driver wasn't being nice...

R15 sounds like Toni Collette in Hereditary: "And what a waste... if it could've maybe brought us together, or something, if you could've just said "I'm sorry" or faced up to what happened, maybe then we could do something with this, but you can't take responsibility for anything! So, now I can't accept. And I can't forgive. Because... because NOBODY admits anything they've done!"

I'm not being snide--I thought that was the most powerful moment in the movie and I agree it's what's wrong with most families and work situations. People don't admit their mistakes.

r43 I get stuck behind the lottery ticket people ALL the time! So annoying. The ones who drop up to $300 on lottery tickets and have to instruct the clerk on what kinds of tickets and all the numbers they want to play, and of course they look poor AF, holding up the damn line for everyone else who just wants to quickly pay for a snack or a drink. Fuck it's annoying.

Guys please don’t keep peeves as pets. Let them roam free among their herd as nature intended.

Individual stickers on my produce!

When kids come over to the adult area of the lawn surrounding our local pool and start screaming and roughhousing.

There have been a few references to grocery shopping, but no one has mentioned this yet: those selfish, lazy people who just leave their shopping cart in the parking lot instead of taking it back to the corral.

^ ^ oh, pul-eeze!

People who don't use blinkers, they just slam on the brakes and turn.

Little red peckers on men

Drivers who, even in the absence of a red light or stop sign, come to a stop or nearly a stop before turning

Pharmaceuticals from piss in my drinking water

Another traffic pet peeve: when people don't close up the spaces, e.g., waiting in the left lane to make a left turn on the arrow. It's not like we're driving 85 mph on the freeway, tailgating.

[quote] ... Cars in an intersection waiving me through ...

R39, one of my pet peeves is people who spell as if the rules have been waived but they haven't.

Adults who use cutesy words - husbear, adorbs, cool beans, etc.

Loud people.

Vulgarity without humor.

Passion without joy.

Quibbling (including when I'm doing it).

Proud vegans.

Smokers.

"I could care less"

“should of”

Psychotic homos who just have to tell the world about their latest insignificant and uninteresting emotion.

People who make up or embellish stories like R44, R51, etc.

My story was not made up R41. If someone is being a jerk, which he was thinking people should wait while he scratches his tickets, I let them know.

Prisspot spelling and grammar queens. Life is too goddamn short to correct the spelling and grammar of strangers on the fucking Internet.

Loose/lose

R68 it’s I could care fewer! Get it right!

My pet peeve is control freaks like R50! The tread is about pet peeves, any kind! If you don’t like driving pet peeves, skip over them!

Fucking morons like R73, who probably hates how everyone corrects his abysmal spelling and grammar.

R77 Oh, dear

I see spelling and grammar errors and just gloss over and keep reading. What's the point of correcting every little error? It's weird and freakish. Especially on a forum like DL where people just type their random thoughts in a conversational style. It not a research paper or a work document.

A too long thread where no one will hear me or even pay attention to mere meeee!

People who cannot park correctly. They park a foot or more away from the curb. They take up two spaces instead of one. The worst is on street sweeping day. Some jerk off took up two parking spots because he had a fancy stupid car. Part of me wanted to put a note on his car saying please park more considerately but I didn’t. Parking is extremely scarce in my neighborhood and it’s very frustrating. I’m trying to just let it go and not let it annoy me.

R81

I would have a left a note. Written by my keys.

People who write “lead” when they mean “led”.

R82 I thought about that before but really what does that solve? Plus it’s a shitty thing to do. Plus I’d probably get caught with my luck!

People who are unable to load a dishwasher properly. Glasses go between the tongs! No plastics in lower rack either.

R85 you'd kick me out then. I'm the dishwasher Jenga person. If it fits, it sits.

R85 So THAT'S what those tongs are for!

Brown/discolored peri anal areas.

I've noticed a lot of lower income people spend a lot on lottery tickets.

R89 Thank you for writing "lower income" and not "lower class." I'm tired of all the DL posts that peg people as being lower class.

And casinos

Too much ice in my iced coffee/tea/soda or not enough!

People who wear white after Labor Day!

Adults with baby tastes. Like my brother in law who eats Spaghettios but won't eat actual scratch made pasta.

People swearing out loud in public while having a conversation.

Fucking hot today, 'eh? Fucking heat gonna make me shit myself with the fucking sweating. Fuck.

R95

Don't criticize your fucking mother, you little prick!

People who order their meat well done.

People who say NO WORRIES instead of no problem

OP is a middle aged psychotic frau . She does this shit for attention, routinely.

My father had a conniption when a waiter responded with No problem instead of You’re welcome.

Twerking.

If you want to appear corky-adjacent, just start twerking.

Add to that the whole "letter T thing" where the letter T is added to words for no reason like in a shitty Tyler Perry movie.

[quote]Getting in line at a 7/11 when you only have an hour for lunch and some elderly (usually African American) person decides this is the time to play 9,000 combination of their grandkids baby daddy Department of Corrections uniform number for the pick four lotto .

In my experience this tends to be whatever person who fucked their lives up and then come, ALWAYS when you are in a rush to get to work, to check 500000 lotto tickets, (649 here in Canada... or whatever fucking lotto game du jour), make you sit there listening to the machine go "winner! gagnon! winner! gagnon!" for at least ten minutes, then proceed to go slowly, oh so slowly about their business of buying a newspaper--which they still do--while engaging the employee in inane conversation. When they finally leave there are probably five, six people waiting when there was just you before. I live in canada so it's generally geriatric white people that do this in the morning and fraus in superfluous black SUVs in the evening.

Honestly just set a fucking machine up for these people and get them to scan their own shit. Also, if you are the asshole checking tickets, shut the fucking fuck up and stop talking to the cashier/employee while he's trying to get through a line of people. You are NOT the most important person in the world.

I'm not unsympathetic toward all of you people who are "in a rush" and get stuck behind someone spending time on lottery tickets or writing checks or counting out change, because I've been in your position, often. But the very fact that it keeps happening should eventually make us realize that the world is full of oblivious dawdlers whose behavior we can't control, so the answer to our dilemma must be that we'll have to change ourselves instead.

My solution has been simple (though not necessarily easy): stop rushing. Unless I have to speed toward emergency medical treatment, I try to slow down and give myself time to complete my task and reach my destination without hurrying. I'm surprised at how often it's possible to proceed at a leisurely pace, maybe by leaving a little earlier or planning a more efficient route, and it's been well worth the minimal effort to adopt a more serene, less impatient approach.

Try it sometime -- maybe while waiting in line for an old lady to find the coupons at the bottom of her purse -- what have you got to lose?

While I agree it's frustrating, I also reflect on the person who's life is in such a state that they need to rely on lotto, coupons, checks, loose change and food stamps. I imagine those among the latter are not feeling wonderful about a dozen eyes glaring at them while they figure if they can afford milk this week.

Hard to remove sticker or price tag on something that I bought, that looks unsightly and needs to be removed...but is almost impossible. When you do remove most of it, the sticky residue is left. Why can't they be placed on the bottom or hidden area of the item?

[quote]Why can't they be placed on the bottom or hidden area of the item?

Think about the person whose job it is to do that. You think they don't want to fuck with you?

People who stop at the top of the stairs or escalator, immediately after exiting through a door, or after any path / sidewalk / hallway narrows and block traffic behind them.

[quote]My solution has been simple (though not necessarily easy): stop rushing. Unless I have to speed toward emergency medical treatment, I try to slow down and give myself time to complete my task and reach my destination without hurrying.

I shouldn't need to allot an extra half hour to 45 min just case lottery douche is at in the store.

And the people spending their money on the lottery tickets aren't the type who are scrounging for food. It's more like a minor gambling addiction. So please drop the patronizing "empathy" shit.

If I knew I was going to take a year to get my shit done at the store I would be empathetic and understand that other people have things to do and I would let them go first.

The lottery ticket people drive me nuts. They're obviously gambling addicts who are pissing their money away and they need help.

[quote]People who say NO WORRIES instead of no problem

My pet peeve is BOTH responses. The polite responses are either THANK YOU or YOU'RE WELCOME.

Traffic and Weathercasters who say "Further North." When describing physical distance, the correct word is "farther." Easy to remember, it begins with "far."

Roundabouts. I'm not against them, but we had two installed near me locally and people can't figure out how to use them at all. It's even worse when there were traffic lights or stop signs at these intersections.

There are little roundabouts in a residential area with narrow streets. Instead of using stop signs...which would make the most sense, they did this. Really stupid. A lot of people plow through, without looking...and many people don't understand that yield, but whoever gets there first..goes first. It's sort of like 4-way stop signs, without the stop signs. I've never seen this set up before. This street is the only one that I know of, that uses this.

[quote]The polite responses are either THANK YOU or YOU'RE WELCOME.

Or "My pleasure."

People who say "You're fine," when you apologize or excuse yourself for something. Yes, I know I'm fine, I was apologizing as a politeness and the proper response is "No problem" or "No worries," not a comment on my right to exist.

Bitches who can't tell the difference between "sympathy" and "empathy."

People like R10 are MY pet peeve. "No problem" is perfectly fine and acceptable. Those who DEMAND a "Your Welcome" clearly didn't honestly mean "thank you" anyway.

Sorry, typo... people like R110.

[quote]Bitches who can't tell the difference between "sympathy" and "empathy."

Or people who have no clue about the difference between jealousy and envy.

^^^Yep. For all the anger we feel at waiting behind them, the shame they feel for living as they do is equal.

[quote]I am guilty of going through the quick checkout with a lot of crap in my cart. I've been called out (how do you spell reprimanded?) for it a couple times recently too.

You would not go in front of me in any self-checkout line I'm in. It should not be illegal to assault you with the canned vegetables you're stocking up on. Or to smear your face in your bargain brand ice cream.

Self checkout isn't the same as express checkout, with its limit on items.

Where I shop, r122, self-checkout is "20 items or fewer." BIG signs.

[quote] My solution has been simple (though not necessarily easy): stop rushing. Unless I have to speed toward emergency medical treatment, I try to slow down and give myself time to complete my task and reach my destination without hurrying.

[quote] So please drop the patronizing "empathy" shit.

IMO, it's not a matter of "empathy," it's a matter of accepting things (to some degree) as they are. Rather than become upset at something you can't change (people buying lottery tickets, clogging up the line), work around it.

These little things eat away at your day-to-day feelings about life.

People who have vintage watches for sale and use an overpriced insurance appraisal from a local jewellery store to justify their absurd asking price.

When it takes me more than 5 min to crap.

When big fancy art books print most (or all) of the pictures/reproductions in B&W!!!

New York food carts are at the curb. People should line-up parallel to the curb, not across the sidewalk blocking everyone trying to get down the street.

Poor pedestrian etiquette! So many people do not know to bear left, think people should move for their fucking dog or, and this is a very NYC one, two or more people stopping in the middle of the sidewalk to yak, all entitled, special and shouting, See, we and what we am are important and we do have a friend! A social scientist who studied urban groups said he has only seen this conversation in the middle of the sidewalk and make everyone walk around in NYC.

Once on Christopher these two people were doing the conversation shit, I walked right between them as if they weren't there. Boy were they pissed! Cursed me out. I loved it. Another time, again on Christopher, the middle of the afternoon, an old gay guy is looking in a shop window, his dog is on one of those 40 foot leashes, sniffing a hydrant, 10 feet ahead and blocking the entire sidewalk. I said excuse me politely and with a big smile me. He turned, smiled, seemed pleased that a young guy wanted to talk to him. When the leash is blocking the entire sidewalk, he got all angry and said queenly, Oh go fuck off!! I laughed in his face.

R117 "No problem" is used only by people of the lower class who've had no exposure to the real world, just the five-block radius of where they were born.

People who flame obvious typos

Mea culpa, R130., but I've lived in Brooklyn most of my life which explains a lot. I have a BA, a BS and an MA. I've been to Europe for work and pleasure about 30 times, Africa, Middle East, and Japan once each. I only use the "no problem" expression with friends or fellow New Yorkers.

R29 I agree. Being a wine drunk is a thing with fraus now.

My most recent peeve is the "Karen" meme. I'm tired of it. It's beyond stale now.

What the hell difference does it make if you have one item or a full cart at the self-checkout, if there aren't any signs stating limits? (Not challenging anyone here, but I've never actually seen any such limits at self-checkouts in various grocery chains across the country.) I can scan and bag my groceries just as fast as the cashiers do, and since there are usually about six or more scanning stations another one will probably open up for you very soon , OP.

People who say Crissant. And yes r1’s as well - that’s such an easy one to keep track of and the number of people who don’t know less from fewer is sad.

[quote] There are little roundabouts in a residential area with narrow streets. Instead of using stop signs...which would make the most sense, they did this.

I like roundabouts, want more of them in my neighborhood. I think they make traffic easier - once people get used to them. I find stop signs at intersections in residential areas much more complicated. Either because of heavy free flowing cross traffic where you never seem to be able to cross. Or the stop sign makes you stop at a position where you cannot see cross traffic yet. Parked cars block the view, so you stop, and then you crawl forward, until you almost reach the middle of the intersection and only then you notice that a car is coming from the left. Roundabouts are much easier.

Tank tops are another pet peeve of mine. They even top flip flops for me. I'm not saying you should hate them, too. I might be the only one, but personally I don't know a man who looks good in a tank top. A well fitting t-shirt ALWAYS looks better.

[quote]"No problem" is used only by people of the lower class who've had no exposure to the real world

There is no caste system here.

And it's used by people who interact with people other than their dying mother whose property they're hoping to acquire when the old bitch finally croaks.

Oh I have a bunch of pet peeves. People who won't allow you to merge onto a highway. I wish there were a special place in hell for them.

And regards supermarket checkouts with 10-20 item limits. One time I had a little hand basket with some stuff I needed for a recipe. 8 items total. Woman in front of me has a full cart full of stuff and loads it on the belt. Cashier comes around and removes womans items from the belt and directs her to no item limit register. I loved that.

People who don’t walk on the right side of the road or sidewalk. Fuck those cunts.

People walking their dogs on sidewalks with the dog on one side of the sidewalk and the owner on the other, and the leash taking up the rest. I am not walking on the road because you refuse to control Marley.

Fraus and parents who pollute the street with their huge baby contraptions which take up the entire sidewalk. What happened to simple strollers? Again, not moving for you. Especially when your spawn doesn’t need to be carted around anymore.

I like roundabouts as well. They installed a roundabout at a problem intersection (in my town). Generally, people in my town are shitty drivers. However, I must say people have adapted well and the roundabout has solved the bottleneck problem very nicely.

Sorry R37 that guy looks GREAT in a tank top.

When the person in the car ahead dramatically runs their hands through their hair in the rearview mirror like they are having an orgasm like in a Garnier Fructis commercial

R129 there a NYC law that limits length of dog leases to six feet. Not that it matters to dog owners or can be enforced :)

[quote]Tank tops are another pet peeve of mine. They even top flip flops for me.

At least you can't hear tank tops as someone walks by.

Re the dopes with dogs on long leashes: it's worse in parks, where they let the dog really stretch the things out. The comments here reminded me of the times when I have encountered one of these things blocking my path and it made me annoyed enough so that I just lifted the leash up in my fist, removing Doggy from contact with the ground, by the neck, and just swung him or her around onto owner Muffy's side of the sidewalk, dropping the stunned dog there. Muffy *always* reacts with horror (she's also almost always yammering away obliviously on her phone, or concentrating hard on Instagram like a drooling moron), but almost never says a word. Problem solved. It works well with fairly large dogs, even.

R135- I LOATHE when people say MAN-naise instead of MAYO nnaise.

^E.g. Paula Ann Hiers Deen?

people who say - PET PEEVES

R147

I can't stand that! Those ignorant cunts!

R147, a Queen I know says my-o-nez.

Guess R147 and I aren't destined to become BFFs?

May-oh-NAZE I find bizarre.

“MayAuh-naze”

Baby. May-anayzed at the way you love me all the time.

People who park in handicapped parking who are not disabled.

People that pay large Costco charges (three hundred dollars or more) with hundred-dollar bills. I know damn well that this was earned under the table and no taxes were paid.

Wow, smell you! I guess you've never done anything illegal or even questionable, R155. My pet peeve is people minding other people's business.

If you needed proof that a large number of DLers are mentally ill, this thread is it

I think r156 and r157 forget what a pet peeve is. The meaning of a pet peeve includes the acknowledgment that the issue is a personal annoyance not necessarily an annoyance for all. "A key aspect of a pet peeve is that it may well seem acceptable or insignificant to others, while the person is likewise not bothered by things that might upset others." OP did not ask "what bothers everybody".

Clutch your purses elsewhere.

Sorry guy, clutch your pearls elsewhere.

People who loudly belch in public

r60

Now no-one even says oops when they're passing their gas. Whatever happened to class?

We live in a no class society

My pet peeve is people who legislate the meaning of simple phrases, like "pet peeve." We get it, dumbass, but we still want to give our opinions. Is that okay with you?

No, not with that foul mouth.

People who don't cover their mouths when they yawn.

People who have their whole-ass nose hanging out over their mask.

Being forced to smell someone’s asshole when I refuse

When a hot trick informs you afterwards the his rate if $200 an hour. Whaaaaa?

Pet peeve: millenials who think "ghosting" business relationships/transactions is okay. It is not. You can take a moment to write a text or email that gives a reasonable pretext for ending the association like grown ups do, but going silent is fucking childish, rude and fucking will come back and bite your ass.

R130, that's so fucking dumb because it's clearly more a generational thing.

My own personal pet peeve: I can't fucking put eye drops in my eyes. I pull by lower lids so far down that they're practically on my chin and I still miss. The drops end up on my upper lid or on my cheek.

R171 - sucks to be you

Joggers, bicycle riders, adults on scooters, kids on scooters, double wide strollers. All on sidewalks and crosswalks deliberately cutting pedestrians off.

People who decide to put their masks on - at the door to the store.

You should have put it on your damn car you lazy fuck.

My pet peeve is hyper critical people like r174

Pedestrians are supposed to walk on the left side of the road, R140 and all who agreed with him.

Friends who text you links to their blogs.

Pedestrians must use footpaths (sidewalks) where provided and

if walking on a road without a footpath,

should keep to the left-hand side, facing oncoming traffic.

There are manned patrols at road crossings on busy roads outside or near schools.

[quote] What are Your Pet Peeves?

People

[quote] My own personal pet peeve: I can't fucking put eye drops in my eyes. I pull by lower lids so far down that they're practically on my chin and I still miss. The drops end up on my upper lid or on my cheek.

Oh honey, no. Try adding those eye drops *before* you smoke that whole bowl.

People at drive through ATM machines who have to go through a half dozen cards before finding one with enough money to withdraw some cash.

People with aggressive dogs who say, "He just wants to say hello!" when the animal clearly wants to tear a piece off you.

Agreed, R182. If I still lived in a dog-walking neighborhood, I'd carry a sheaf of Dog Trainer business cards and hand them out to these loons. No, your puppy isn't friendly, it's untrained and obnoxious. Pay the money to get your pooch properly socialized.

People who drive up to the front of the line and merge in ahead of everyone who's been waiting patiently in line.

In Phoenix, the freeways have long combined on-ramps/off-ramps and during rush hour traffic/parking lot, people actually drive along that "lane" and then merge up front.

r184 those people should be shot. I call them the "traffic jam cunts," they get in the breakdown lane and move up to the head of the line and try to squeeze back in. Disgusting, all of them.

My friend Buffy in Old Greenwich is so WASPy, she thinks mayonnaise is a spice.

[quote]People at drive through ATM machines who have to go through a half dozen cards before finding one with enough money to withdraw some cash.

The prick in front of me yesterday was even worse. He was taking so long at the ATM, but that wasn't enough for him. When he finished, he was just sitting in the car like it was a fucking parking spot. I had to honk to get him to fucking move. There was a line of cars behind him.

Just ran across this example of someone using "ran" instead of the proper "run", and it's SO FUCKING ANNOYING:

"Too centrist for such a blue seat, a clumsily ran campaign ... "

[quote] [R184] those people should be shot. I call them the "traffic jam cunts," they get in the breakdown lane and move up to the head of the line and try to squeeze back in. Disgusting, all of them.

Some of that anger should be reserved for the wimps or bleeding hearts who let them back in. Fuck 'em, I say. Go ahead and hit my car.

R133, Would you rather we just call you an "Irrationally entitled racist white bitch"?

Standing in line at a coffee shop wanting to order an Americano and having to wait 20 minutes as the three people in front of me order multiple convoluted drinks that should be concocted at an ice cream parlour.

People who don't close the alarmed front door of the gym properly when they exit so that when I arrive to swipe in I am confronted by a SWAT team.

Trashy people who have their phones in speaker mode in public or play loud music on their phones should all be tortured, dismembered and then burnt alive. Uncivilized creatures.

[quote]I LOATHE when people say MAN-naise instead of MAYO nnaise.

Well now I'm going to be self-conscious about this for the rest of my life.

I say man-naise, too. Maybe it's a Jersey thing?

[quote] Standing in line at a coffee shop wanting to order an Americano and having to wait 20 minutes as the three people in front of me order multiple convoluted drinks that should be concocted at an ice cream parlour.

Then stop going to chain coffee chops that try to be ice cream parlors.

[quote] Well now I'm going to be self-conscious about this for the rest of my life.

Good. Our work here is done.

Frauen who take ages deciding what their precious crotch droppings are going to order should all be pepper sprayed.

[quote] Frauen who take ages deciding what their precious crotch droppings are going to order should all be pepper sprayed.

Why even wait for them to get to the counter? Pepper Spray should be done upon sight.

R199, someone upthread mentioned the nasal, cooing "Thenk yew" that these bitch frauen all seem to use. I also suggest electric shock punishment every time they say "Thenk yew" along with the pepper spray.

People in public places likes the market who walk away from their crying children for supposed tough love. Maybe this is a valid strategy to treat a child acting out but why inflict the psychodrama on other shoppers?

like the market ...

People who amble along IN THE WAY who are inconsiderate and/or unaware, and could basically give a shit about the world around them. Examples:

(1) Groups of people (4 or more) walking on a sidewalk or in a crowded mall in a horizontal line forcing you to say "excuse me" to get around them. (2) People driving in the passing lane at the same speed as the car next to them on a 2 lane highway as traffic builds up behind them. (3) People at an event or store or public space who stand directly in the aisle/common walkway forcing foot traffic to maneuver around them). (4) People crossing the street in the middle of the block & looking the opposite direction of traffic to avoid eye contact with the drivers they pissed off. (5) People talking or texting and driving way below the speed limit as traffic builds up behind them. (6) People who talk to people in the next car at a stop light and continue the conversation after the light turns green thus holding up traffic behind them.

To all the people who are intentionally or negligently dilly dallying in a roadways and walkways, promptly GET THE FUCK OUTTA THE WAY!

Wire coat hangers.

People with support animals without a visible disability (I know many). Fuck those cunts!

R107 Oh I hate that too!

Live republicans. We all know they should be executed by the state.

R205, I'd rather encounter people's support animals than their children.

[quote] Live republicans. We all know they should be executed by the state.

Anyone who posts something as stupid and divisive as this. You live in the world and it's full of all kinds of people, grow up and deal with it.

Congratulations R205 on your stupidity. This may come as a shock to you, but there are disabilities that are not visible to other people. Epilepsy is just one example. Would you like for them to wear a sign stating what their disability is so you don't look stupid in the future?

[quote] I LOATHE when people say MAN-naise instead of MAYO nnaise.

MAN-naise sounds trashy, for some reason.

That said, I sometimes say may-naze, skipping the O sound in the middle.

This is why I eat Miracle Whip. Easier to pronounce.

People who won't put caps back onto bottles. I had a lazy, shit-for-brains roommate who regularly spilled out half bottles of laundry detergent because he seemed to think the caps tightened themselves. He'd also refuse to take the millisecond to close the flip-cap on a tube of toothpaste.

Lazy shit.

R212, Miracle Whip is the trashiest of the trashy.

But easy to pronounce, R214 -- credit where due!

Miracle Whip is a lot easier to pronounce than Cool Whip...

R210 Too many people abuse the whole "support animal" thing. People got along perfectly fine before this became "a thing." And what the fuck is an animal gonna do for someone with epilepsy? LOL Quit being stupid. Some of you ignorant fuckers wanna argue just to argue.

While I agree that support animals have gone off the rails, there is a valid use for dogs (for example) helping epileptics and diabetics. Dogs can sense -- probably through their insanely better smell -- when a seizure is coming or when your blood sugar goes too high or too low. It's an early warning that lets the person prepare or change course. Dogs also seem to be able to detect nascent cancer better than conventional Western medicine. I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss what animals can provide medically.

R201, the correct procedure as I've seen it done is to kneel down next to the out of control offspring and whisper gently in his/her/their ear, probably something about how one should behave in a public place. This is modeling the correct behavior, not giving it lip service. Of course, this has to have been done consistently from toddlerhoodk to continue to work in the fiendish fives and up.

Bisexuals and trannies

Typing kiddos and doggos instead of kids and dogs. I would like to strangle the frau who came up with that shit.

R209- Yeah, cause fascism is something we should embrace and tolerate and losing our democracy to them is just a mild difference of opinion. Let's continue to normalize fascism, it is working so well for us .

I don’t have a full shipping cart but I certainly have more than 20 items in my basket when I use self checkout. I’m not unloading my groceries onto a conveyor belt, waiting for someone else to scan them and then load them back into my cart again. If I take that shit out I’m scanning it myself and throwing it in the bag — it takes half the time of waiting for someone else to do it. I separate my stuff before checking out. The frozen food first, then the refrigerated items, then the non refrigerated items. The frozen & refrigerated items go in the same insulated bag. The cat food cans go together because they’re the same price & if one doesn’t register I just scan the next one twice.

I’m fast. NY minute fast. In fact I used to live in NY and could only carry 3 grocery bags home, so I learned how to stuff a bag very thoroughly. I’ve dazzled checkout girls with my bag stuffing prowess.

Why do elderly women fill up their whole shopping cart? It’s always an elderly woman who has a completely full cart. Do they grocery shop once a year? Do they shop for their whole neighborhood? Do they stop off in nursing homes & pick up lists from all the clients? I don’t get it. I can understand that in places like Costco because they have a membership fee and I’ve heard of several people splitting the membership fee & only one person goes shopping for all of them.

But supermarkets? There’s no reason why you can’t go more than once a year. I should not see you with a brimming shopping cart, with shit teetering half out of the cart because it’s so overstuffed.

I live in South Florida, where I find the elderly avoid self-checkout. I'm not great at it myself, but I try.

Trader Joe's staff are always a whiz at packing bags!

Clerks don’t load my weekender bags properly, R224. I want vegetable with vegetable, meat with meat, dairy with dairy. If I load them myself, I have two semi-equal weighted bags to carry ten blocks.

My newest pet peeve is the lime bikes/scooters thrown down everywhere. It’s my city; not your fucking garbage-people front lawn.

There's no item limit in self-checkout. So, I'll take however many items I want. I try to shop during off hours, so I take however much time I need. I'll put everything that needs refrigeration into one bag. The other bag, I'll put pantry items. I have a car, so weight distribution doesn't matter that much.

8pm is the best time to go grocery shopping. No fraus, no olds and no kids. There aren't too many people at that time and the ones who are there are usually younger men and women shopping alone and being quiet.

People who get in a turning only lane, and just fucking sit there, never turning. There really aren't enough profanities to yell at them, but I try.

[quote]And what the fuck is an animal gonna do for someone with epilepsy? LOL Quit being stupid.

You are as dumb as they come, R217, just pure, unadulterated stupid.

[quote]I should not see you with a brimming shopping cart

I get that this is about pet peeves but I also can't imagine caring what other people buy. For elderly people I suspect they buy everything in one store and want it to last a couple of weeks, because they don't want to make multiple stops.

When I was a kid we didn't shop every couple of days, it was once a week at most, and the cart was full.

People walking and texting. You're multitasking. You're a fucking moron and deserve to get hit by that car when you suddenly look up.

R218 That is not a support animal. What you are talking about is a service animal. There is a big difference. A service animal may be able to help someone with epilepsy because they have TRAINING. They have actual requirements in accordance with the ADA. Whereas a support animal is usually just well support... so they're bullshit! lol

R229 You are just here to flame and talk shit you know nothing about. You are one DUMB MUTHA FUCKA!!!

Assholes who derail every fun or interesting thread all day, everyday.

People standing too close in lines-I should not be able to smell you

Poor R233, talking shit about others post when in reality they know nothing.

OP your pet peeve should be the stupid stores still limit "self checkout" to 15 items or less.

I also have gone through self-checkout with a full shopping cart. Especially during the past Covid year not wanting to wait in line breathing around the same folks in front of and behind me for up to 20 or more minutes. I'm organized and fast about it, there's not a rule against it (I've seen people with far less take much longer, too), and since it's a free country and anyone can choose to shop wherever else they want to or not, I really don't give a flying fuck. I guess them and that would be my own pet peeve. :)

People holding up the line to buy a million fucking lottery tickets when all i want to do is pay for my gasoline and go. Isn't there suppose to be a separate window just for lottery tickets?

R239 you don't have credit cards?

R237, worse: They don't know to use FEWER

In convenience stores (separate from the gasoline ones), some of the staff and/or staff owners get visibly annoyed with the lottery players who hold up lines. I wonder if it's because they could potentially lose $$ for store-bought items.

R241 better not shop at this location lol

Stupid cunts who have started gathering in groups inside small supermarkets in big cities to gossip, catch up and talk. Those places are small enough that you can't distance properly anyway and these braindead bitch cunts make it worse by blocking every single aisle and not making the slightest attempt to move or keep a distance. Do these rancid frau cunts not have any other place where they can talk to each other while shrieking like rabid, drunk hyenas? They all deserve to be pepper sprayed and run over.

R234 AND R236 You need to scroll up and you will see that it is R229 who derailed this conversation talking about shit he knows nothing about just to try and flame on people. I hate bitchy queens especially when they are stupid!

My #1 Pet Peeve is people who derail conversations because they wanna try to look witty but end up looking stupid and are annoying!

#2 Pet Peeve - ENABLERS who jump in to "assist" them with the derailing by jumping on the person who was "attacked" when they themselves are clueless about what preceded!

[quote]Why do elderly women fill up their whole shopping cart? It’s always an elderly woman who has a completely full cart.

R223 My elderly mother does that when I take her grocery shopping every other week. I don't know if it's a throwback to the Depression so they buy everything on sale or if she thinks she's never going grocery shopping again. We go to three different stores and by the time we get back to her one bedroom apartment, the trunk is full and it takes a few trips to get everything to her apartment. Her fridge and freezer are full, her pantry is overloaded. I do throw out expired goods but I have to do it when she's napping but she's sharp enough to know 'something' is missing.

I'm waiting in line at supermarket and two FRAUS who haven't seen each other in a while start YAPPING-How's Timmy doing? He's grown so much since I last saw him! Yes. Melissa is dating now . Can you believe it?

The inane FRAU banter drives me UP A WALL!

^^There's something false about that post. Like R247 is just making up a scenario to be pissed about FRAUS.

R245 Some of us can actually follow a conversation, unlike you.

R248- I'm not quoting an ACTUAL conversation I overheard but just using that as an example of situations I've been in while waiting in line at a store.

[quote]There's something false about that post. Like [R247] is just making up a scenario to be pissed about FRAUS.

Sort of like R244. Lots of men block aisles talking shit, too. That's a lot of hate over a 'pet peeve'.

I shop at Mexican and Asian markets a lot, where people chit chat in languages that I don't understand. So I don't find it annoying, but I'll bet the content is just as inane as the English versions.

Getting a splinter in my penis.

I HATE when people say - How's your mom? How's your dad?

It's How's your mother? How's your father?

When I was growing up in the 1970's and the 1980's NO ONE said - My mom and dad, they said my mother and father.

I've always called my parents mom or dad R254. Called your parents mother or father sounds so pretentious.

Well, R254, when I was growing up in the '50s and '60s, people referred to parents as "mom and dad". So fashions change, in language as in everything else. Seems hardly worth peeving about.

*Calling

R256- That's probably because you're from the midwest.

True, R258 -- regionalisms are also a factor.

If Miss R254 truly had any class, she would call her parents 'mater' and 'pater.'

People who put prepositions where they don't belong: waiting on, switch up, change out, where you at; or use the word "stood" when they mean "stayed."

I sometimes shop at an upscale small market where the cashiers are slow and chitchat with the customers to such an extent that a line will back up to about eight people while the three on-duty cashiers catch up on the lives of customers. WTF? I'm all for being kind and socializing a bit, but not having a long conversation while slowly, slowly checking out a few items, then standing there finishing while other people are waiting. Grrrrr.

R209

Honestly, you're just an idiot who doesn't know what fascism means. Go back to thinking what you're told to think.

Movie pet peeves:

When films based on true events are changed so much that they don't resemble the original story in any way.

When gay characters are straight washed.

Ebay pet peeves:

When a seller says they will get back to you with an answer to your question and you never hear from them again.

When you contact a local seller about a cash transaction and they get pissy and say they will let the auction go to the end. Then when the item doesn't sell they contact you asking for more than their auction price.

Shill bidding.

People and their nitpicky cigarette choices at the gas and sip. We all have to stand in line behind you while you shriek about your ultra slim extra tar Virginia Slims so you can feed your addiction when we just want to pay for gas and get out. There should be a dedicated line for these losers.

People who reply to cooking blogs with shit like "looks scrummy!!! Cant wait to make these!" WHO THE FUCK CARES? Make them and tell us what you thought. If not, shut the fuck up.

[quote] People standing too close in lines-I should not be able to smell you

I remember many, many years ago as young man I was working as a concierge in a midtown hotel in NYC (mid-upper range). I was helping a foreign tourist (German, Austrian?) and suddenly she turned around to the fat frau behind her and asked if she needed something. The woman looked like a deer in headlights and shook her head. The tourist then said, "Oh OK, because I can feel you breathing on my neck." LOL. Loved her.

R267, there's something I hate even more than that. The authors of those cooking blogs who write a ten-page prolog to the goddamn recipe before mentioning the ingredients. You have to keep scrolling through long, pointless descriptions of what she and her adorbs hubby love and how the puff pastry in some tiny bakery reminded her of the time she lost her virginity and how her darling kids cut the rooster's neck for her divine coq au vin.

Loud kissing in movies.

Idiots who review the seller or ask for instructions on how to return an item as their product review on Amazon. Too stupid to live.

Stupid people

People who contribute nothing to threads other than mindless assholerly that they believe is wit.

People who lack even an iota of self-awareness.

R273 I agree. WTF is wrong with these people. They flame for the sake of flaming and never add anything constructive.

R21, I do NOT buy canned vegetables (unless you include beans, and only sometimes), and I do NOT buy bargain brand ice cream.

^ but I do make typos. That was for R121.

People who think legumes are vegetables.

R278, I do NOT think that beans are vegetables. I know they are legumes. I was just being specific because SOME people might consider them to be in the same category.

R276

I like canned corn!

Corn is actually a fruit. Well, sort of a grain that has been bred to evolve into something more akin to fruit.

Tomatoes are a fruit too.

And so are you R281.

People selling things who don't know how to haggle.

People selling things who ask for best offers and become offended when you make an offer.

r283 Those eBayers piss me off like few others. I had one of those experiences recently. She had a Buy It Now of $19.99, an opening bid of $9.99, so I bid $12.50, then $15.00. 75% of the BIN is exactly what I sell things for if I place a Make Offer tag, but this wasn't enough for this bitch.

If you don't want to haggle, don't click Make Offer.

I'm tempted to buy the item at full price, then give her the feedback she has earned.

People who can’t be bothered to signal when changing lanes, turning a corner, etc.

Is it really THAT hard to flip the lever?

Assholes who place their carts across the entire grocery aisle or stop in the middle, rather than pulling over to one side so others can pass.

Incorrect use of the apostrophe.

Tailgating women and women who drive with their phone glued to their ear.

Dirty nails.

Folks who leave their car parked at the petrol pump while they go shopping.

When people use the words "LatinX" and "queer" so casually.

[quote]And what the fuck is an animal gonna do for someone with epilepsy?

My pet peeve is people who don't bother to google before posting idiocy such as this.

People who don't like it when you are obviously trying to educate them.

My pet peeve is people who quote Google.

Truthfully, my pet peeve is complex.

It's like when you are interested in a guy, and you sense that he is also interested in you. You run into each other every once in a while.

You notice when he has changed his hair. You wonder if he does squats, or if he is cut.

But then he pretends that didn't try to kill him last year.

People who try to raid my snack drawer. That shit is mine! Not yours!

R293, you can always buy more Ruffles.

Or I can kick your ass back to the stone age

Running out of TP and using warm washcloth instead

R289 My pet peeve is idiots like you who jump in the middle of a conversation attempting to criticize when you are clueless about the preceding conversation.

The word 'queer'. Especially when people use it as a blanket term to describe gay people. No. Stop it.

I'm a gay man. I am NOT "queer", whatever that means.

I read the entire thread, r297, and regardless of what you call the animal, this was still the stupidest thing I've seen online all week.

I don't like 'queer' either. And most people who call themselves 'queer' have nothing to do with actual homosexuals.

People who make a left or right hand turn from the opposite far lane. Hello...

When people try to "cheer up" an asshole in the group. (IMO, assholes should be ignored until they work out their own issues.)

Calm down boy.

nobody but a total dumbass would confuse a legume with a plant

You ust have shit for brains.

Throwing trash on ground or out car window.

R305 what if it is the worst trash ever:

Reckless skiers who put normal folks in danger.

Americans who go out to eat in USA and tip poorly or not at all.

People who are glued to their phones in public areas that are agreed to be locations of transit. No, you should not stayed glued to your phone to gingerly exit public transportation. No, do not stop directly at the top or bottom of escalators, do not stop directly in front of elevators. Etc.

Cynical bitter young people. If you are middle class or above, you are too young to be so beaten.

people who wallow in their oppinions like animals

R293 you can always buy more snacks

Dumb little queers.

At the gas station when someone takes up an entire island to pump gas. I noticed this is usually older men who have a newer vehicle and don't want anyone near their precious car.

The scent of unwashed cunt in supermarket aisles.

The number of times I have wanted to march up to the suspect and hand her a feminine hygiene product!!!!

People, like R308, who use too make p's.

r313 ^ Oh, dear.

*many

The Oh, dear troll. Only here do you have a spelling troll. If you tried that shit somewhere else you would be laughed at.

People who use odd words, like "peeve".

[quote] At the gas station when someone takes up an entire island to pump gas. I noticed this is usually older men who have a newer vehicle and don't want anyone near their precious car.

What? That's a new one. Have never seen that. That would be ridiculous.

I always get stuck behind the lottery ticket people and it drives me crazy. They drop $200 on tickets and have to give the clerk their numbers that they're playing, then they ask the clerk about the dozens of scratch off tickets, etc. It takes forever and the line keeps getting longer and longer. All I want to do is pay for a soda, you asshole! Move it along!

Adults who don’t know how to project their voice when necessary. Nobody likes a loudmouth, but one shouldn’t expect to swan through life speaking sotto voce.

When people spell out their names like, "my name is Jon, j as in juice, o as in octopus, n as in nighttime." So dumb and tedious. I get you wanna be heard clearly over the phone, but you could just annunciate.

It's "enunciate," R320.

Maybe he's Mary, r321.

People who watch FOX News

People who vote Republican

Bernie Bros

Libertarians

R168- Did that ever happen to you?

People who don't say thank you when you've held the door for them. My father who is quite the gentleman would hold the door -even waiting if he saw someone at a bit of a distance- and it pissed me off if they didn't say thank you to him and there were times where I would just outright say "no class" or "you're welcome, classless" to these people and he would chastise me for doing so, but I didn't care.

I once held the door for someone who didn't say it and there was a second door and they anticipated me holding it again, but I didn't and it hit them in the face - I felt no guilt.

When people are told to put away their phones and they do--for about five minutes. Then out them come again.

Radical leftist thinking they are "liberals". They're usually anything but liberal when telling others what to do, say and think. When in discussions they are just as intolerant as the right wing - just with other priorities but with the same sense of righteousness. Because, you know, they are the ones who really understand what's right and what's wrong.

R299 the stupidest thing online this week was your attempt at being witty falling flat as you demonstrated to the world your obvious struggles with reading comprehension.

R23 and R27 I whole-heartedly agree and would add that the far left wing radicals are actually WORSE than MAGATS because they eat the party from the inside. They are allowed to spread divisive and confusing rhetoric under the Democratic Party umbrella which defeats the purpose of having a political party in the first place.

[quote]I whole-heartedly agree and would add that the far left wing radicals are actually WORSE than MAGATS because they eat the party from the inside.

And you're precisely why MAGATs exist at all. No, idiot. Your hard-on for hating transpeople or whatever "woke" bullshit you whine about from the "radical" left-wing is not quite the same as an attempt by the MAGAts to overthrow our fucking govt to install a psychotic orange clown.

There is not a single thing the "radical" left has done that comes close to what the right-wing has done. All you people have done is enable what the right-wing did. You're genuinely horrible people pretending that your own prejudices don't have everything to do with how you think and why you've normalized white supremacy.

People who shit

No R330, YOU'RE THE IDIOT! Who the fuck said anything about transpeople? You have lost your senses (assuming you had any)! You DUMB FUCK! I am a Black man. I don't give two shits about MAGATs! They have shown who they are. White people just woke up to the fact that the GOP is a bunch of ignorant greedy unpatriotic racist fucks! THAT IS NOT NEW INFORMATION TO BLACK PEOPLE, so forgive us if we don't treat it as such! Black people have always known who the GOP is and WE TOLD EVERYONE this BEFORE the 2016 election Who Donald Trump was and Who the GOP has a LONG HISTORY OF BEING! Why do you think most Black people don't fuck with the GOP... AT ALL? That 2016 Bullshit election rests squarely on the shoulders of White people (in both parties). We are not all down with everything Democrats do, but we got no fucking choice when we have a BLATANT threat to our very lives seated across the aisle! Don't get mad at me because most of your aloof and largely "unaffected" asses just woke up to the GOP! I'd like to welcome the radical left to our world. Because many White liberals have had their heads in the sand regarding "Black issues" for so long, it should be no surprise that your radical liberal agenda is being roundly rejected by Democrats!

I don't have to hide behind woke BULLSHIT and playing games of chicken with the GOP when millions of peoples lives are at stake! I don't vote 3rd party or threaten to sit shit out if I don't get my chosen candidate (who isn't even a fucking democrat!) or my list of DEMANDS from the Democratic Party. Do you know why Black people don't hold our votes hostage from the Democratic Party? Because we know what that shit means! We know that many suffered bled and died for us to have that right! We also know that throughout history (EVEN NOW) most White people don't want Black people to vote (including some ignorant, racist mutha fuckas in the Democratic Party).

The FAR LEFT WING DOESN'T GIVE A FUCK about civil or voting rights so I got no fucking use from these fucking hypocrites who want free college despite Black people being murdered in the streets daily by the police! The radical left is willing to have temper tantrums and sacrifice issues that really matter to the Democratic Party - matters of fucking life and death for their whims! So FUCK THEM and FUCK YOU for supporting them! You picked the wrong one for your racist rant you stupid fuck!

R332? I brought up transpeople to make a fucking point. You claimed the far-left is worse than MAGATs. Wrong, asshole. There is nothing worse than an ENTIRE fucking party literally attempting to control who gets to vote to the point they were willing to K I L L elected officials or stop an investigation into that fact. Does your stupid ass understand how far-right govts happen? How a Putin happens? There is not a single fucking thing any part of the left has done that is "worse" than the MAGATS and the entire GOP. You know who thinks like that? Neocons who claim to be Dems.

Sorry guys, this political left/right pet peeve escalation is on me. Should have created a new thread for this. Next pet peeve: Posters who overreact with great hyperbole over things they feel passionate about.

Fuck you R33 you ignorant piece of shit! I'm saying the GOP is terrible, but the far left is far worse because you all pretended to care about Democratic values when you on the far left could give less than a shit. This is evidenced by the fact that Civil Rights has been at a standstill since 1964. I am still waiting for Dr. King's Dream of people being judged not by their skin but by the content of their character.

You are a fucking idiot. I have an excellent understanding of American History and how government works you fucking pea brain! My point is from this Black person's perspective (and many others), you on the far left are far worse. In case your dumbass hasn't noticed we the lesser of two evils is not good enough. Being better than Donald Trump doesn't get you a cookie you self-entitled, ego-centric twit! You have to actually DO SOMETHING to positively impact people's lives to merit anything even close to being the Democracy you fucking dumbass claim to want but only for certain people and then only so far. Try understanding this shit from someone else's perspective instead of your ivory tower faulty analyses and weak/irrelevant quibbling. Your dumbass is the reason Democrats lose elections!

Another pet peeve: People who let their dog shit on other people's front yard. Not cool.

And yet another, more personal pet peeve: Long-winded co-workers who love themselves talking but never get to the point.

Young girls living in extremely small apartments in NYC and still being happy about their living situation

People who take shopping carts from grocery stores and leave them on the side of the street. Buy a fucking cart!

[quote] but the far left is far worse because you all pretended to care about Democratic values

This alone renders you an idiot. I don't have to read any further. The "far left" will never be a fucking threat to you on the same level as the entire right. Are you paying attention all? The right (and not just the "far right") don't even want you to fucking vote, dumbass. Most of them think Floyd got what he deserved.

People opening every cap of deodorant smelling them prior to buying.

^ Sorry I admit I do that. Not all caps, but one or two.

It’s not cologne bitch.

Contestants on the Price is Right who bid one more dollar than the last contestant.

People who treat the gym as a social occasion. Either stop chatting and do your next set, or get off the fucking machine.

And no, that text you just got isn't important, so stop reading it while you are blocking a piece of equipment. Phones at the gym should be used for playing music through your headset, and nothing else. Don't even fucking think about making a fucking phone call.

This reminds me R344 of the progressive commercial of the guy wanting to use the machine and the guy staying longer than the limit. How the hell can Progressive insurance be so tone deaf?

Oh fucking hell the people on their phones at the gym. I HATE them! We're a captive audience listening to their idiotic conversations. If it's a phone call you simply MUST take, have the courtesy to go off somewhere out of the way and don't talk on the phone while working out in front of everybody else. It's so rude.

R102 we got to stop making “in the way” people like Bill Burr says. Go about halfway through the video. It’s pretty funny!

When there are over 300 responses to the Pet Peeves thread and you can only load/read the first 114 of them. What the fuck is up with that?

R105 Buy some Goof Off. Removes a lot of stuff including sticker residue.

R339 do you literally have shit for brains? Are you unable to comprehend any of what I am saying to you or are you deliberately trolling? Nobody can be as stupid as you.. or can they?

Lemme try one more time to make this clear to your dumbass. The GOP is a racist, corrupt, unpatriotic, selfish, greedy bag of shit. That is not new information. Everyone knows that. Nobody expects anything good to ever come from them.

BUT, what makes the far left worse is that you fuckers know that the GOP is useless and yet you PRETEND TO BE AN OPTION when you are not. In fact you make things harder on a party that is already disadvantaged in terms of financing and MSM support. You fuckers continue to wreak as much havoc as possible by pushing your own selfish agenda (which has nothing to do with what the majority of the Democratic Party wants or needs). Your incessant whining and attempting to extort shit from the party by blocking Democrats from getting shit done to actually help people is far worse than having to deal with the horrible GOP.

Your continued abuse and exploitation of the party of equality and civil rights just to assert your own selfish shit is absolutely despicable. That is some next level villainous shit which far exceeds anything the GOP could ever dream of. So yeah, for that, FUCK YOU!

Save the fucking political rants. This is a fun thread about annoyances in day to day life.

R351 tell that shit to R39.

Tell that shit to *R339

People who use vulgarity in their everyday conversations.

[quote]Another pet peeve: People who let their dog shit on other people's front yard. Not cool.

Agreed R336.

When I was a kid we had a dog and our father told us to keep the dog off other people's properties. These days dog owners think nothing of letting their dogs piss and shit all over other people's lawns and then walking all over your property to pick it up. It's my front yard, not a fucking dog park.

At least they're picking it up, r355.

But when I come home from work and two people I don't know are standing on my lawn chit chatting while their dogs are running around I don't care if they're picking it up or not. I want those fuckers off my property.

RE the phones at the gym thing. There was a man who took his phone outside to have his call and then he was locked out because he had not taken his gym entry card with him. I saw him waving at the glass front door and I let him in, partly because he was cute/ He said something to me at the door but i do not know what as I had my headphones for music.

When the recalcitrant Susan Dey refuses to publicly condole someone’s death.

That Susan Dey shit needs to die already.

All the weird crap that the bums drag around. There's a permanent pile of rubbish just down the street with 2 schlubs sitting in lawn chairs having a picnic every day. If we can't manage to house people, let's at least give them a locker for their shit.

P.S. almost all the hobos in my town are white, so I'm not racist I'm just a horrible person.

[quote] There was a man who took his phone outside to have his call and then he was locked out because he had not taken his gym entry card with him.

It takes so little to be classy, sometimes (having a phone conversation outside instead of inside).

People in public places who watch tv on their ipads or whatever without headphones. SO FUCKING RUDE.

"Influencers" who misuse the term "holy grail": "This face cream is my holy grail! I buy it all the time!" To me, this is worse than using "literally" as emphasis.

"Holy grail" refers to something endlessly searched for that is impossible to find. Thus, you wouldn't be "buying it all the time", you knucklehead.

It annoys me when people cannot pronounce heroin properly. It’s hair o in. Not hair ron!

People who have kids they can't afford and then expect the taxpayers to foot the bill for everything. It's called birth control. It's been around for ages and it's free at Planned Parenthood, you stupid assholes.

That straight women flirt with me but gay men ignore me.

R360 “ That Susan Dey shit needs to die already.”

If that ‘Susan Dey shit’ ever dies, would she comment?

Preach it r367! If I were a straight man I would be getting so much pussy. Of course I have no interest. To other gay men, I'm mostly invisible. Life can be so cruel.

R369 that's why you put a bag over her head, fuck her in the ass, and call her Timmy.

My major pet peeve is when self-absorbed idiots post a new thread about some nobody and don't provide any information on who that nobody is or what they're allegedly "famous" for. Like it's difficult to include a single sentence of background or info. And when you call them out on their being so inconsiderate and lazy, they go off, as if they think EVERYONE having to go Google for themselves is a better idea than saving everyone that work by simply typing one sentence in their original post (or even subject line) that would let people know what they need to know. I mean, jesus.

R371 Susan Dey starred on The Partridge Family and later on LA Law. That's all I know about the bitch.

It must be some inside joke they're discussing, but i agree with you, if they aren't gonna share with everyone else what the hell they're talking about they shouldn't be cluttering up the public board with it.

I was in grade school when LA Law was on and never watched it, and can't tell you who starred in it. I've never seen the Partridge Family, but I know it was about a family of assholes who were in a band.

Or those that post a photo of someone and expect we should know who they are R371

People who say- MAC and Cheese

instead of-

MACARONI and Cheese

R367- Over the years at places like Trader Joe's and Costco I have woman flirt with me but almost NEVER men. Oh well , I guess it's better than nothing.

I want to see Flo swallow the Geico gecko while the Limu emy ass-rapes her. The bane of youtube tv.

Get ublock origin. You'll never see another ad on Youtube again.

Some people think The Partridge Family was modeled after The Manson Family. And that Laurie Partridge was just a slap together of Leslie Van Houten(looks) & Squeeky Fromme(spokesperson)

Who the hell thought that R379? I've never heard that and anyone believe it would have to be really dumb.

BTW R379 it was actually based on the Cowsills

People that just make shit up out of thin air. Like R379.

People who get upset over someone calling mac-and-cheese "Mac-and-cheese". Since it's ALWAYS been called that. It's what it's called. I don't know anyone who ever says "Macaroni and cheese". Please. Who gets upset by stupid shit like this?

R383 types young. I never heard of [italic]mac[/italic] and cheese until the 21st century.

R384, I've heard "mac and cheese" my entire damn life, and it's what I've always called it, it's what it was called at school for school lunch menus, and I'm over 50, so GTFOH.

It IS Mac and Cheese! I have never heard it called anything else. A lot of menus now even list it that way.

I wonder if the mac/macaroni controversy depends on where you live. I never heard of anything but [italic]macaroni[/italic] in NY, NJ, or DC. Only when I moved to Pittsburgh, PA in 2000 did I hear of [italic]mac[/italic] and cheese. Same with that green bean/mushroom soup casserole. Never heard of it.

R387 It may be a generational thing too. People are so influenced by tv, movies and social media nowadays that I don't think local colloquialisms have the same influence they held years ago. Younger people are probably more likely to call it Mac and Cheese.

The "oh dear" spelling and grammar prisspots.

People who use old-timey words like "prisspot".

People who use old-timey words like "old-timey."

R391, at least R390 hyphenated it correctly. Let us be grateful for small favors so that we don't have to say "Oh, dear!".

[quote]People who take shopping carts from grocery stores and leave them on the side of the street. Buy a fucking cart!

R338 Most of them are at bus stops, correct? Some people shop at the grocery once or twice a month and they can't carry all their bagged groceries to the bus stop. Why don't you do a good thing and return the cart to the store?

Pet peeve: People like r383 who complain about others' pet peeves. Somebody posts a pet peeve and r383 complains that it is not worthy. That's why it's a pet peeve. If lots of people complained about it, it wouldn't be a pet peeve anymore.

People with undiagnosed anxiety and depression.

A simple 10 mg. pill could fix their irritability and anger, but instead I have to listen to them bitch about normal things like: waiting in grocery lines, listening to mothers talk to their children, women in general.

[quote] Preach it [R367]! If I were a straight man I would be getting so much pussy.

If you were straight, you'd be giving off a different energy to women. You wouldn't be as popular with women.

When I was in college, I spent three solid years being monogamous with someone. He was good in bed, so I wasn't dying to be fucking around.

A lot of other guys were attracted to me during those three years. I attribute it to a confident, non-desperate aura and vibe on my part.

I wish I could like that a thousand times over R395. So many posters with so much anger. At what point does a person step back and realize they are the ones with the problem and stop blaming society or a specific gender or orientation?

Little has-been pricks who write condescending crap in their memoirs about how they weren't attracted to me sexually and the gays who trash me because I didn't give a shit when the little prick died.

[quote]If you were straight, you'd be giving off a different energy to women. You wouldn't be as popular with women.

No, not really.

R396 Exactly! It's odd that some people think they're the only one who can read a room or has gaydar or whatever. Actually everyone has that 6th sense, some people are just are not as consistent with it as other.

Once I came out (and I'm not flamboyant at all) I became a lot more confident. Women and men began constantly flirting and slipping me their numbers.

Women flirt for as many reasons as men do. Some flirt because they think you're straight and want you, some just dig your vibe and want to know you (gay or straight), some know you are gay but think they can change you. I never try to figure out someone's motives unless I'm interested but I take every flirt (from a man or a woman) as a compliment!

If gay men are ignoring you R367 it is definitely a vibe you're giving off. People are reading you. I suspect you're exuding nervousness. Maybe you should get a wingman for when you go out to give you more confidence and help you read the room. Four eyes are better than two.

[quote] When people spell out their names like, "my name is Jon, j as in juice, o as in octopus, n as in nighttime." So dumb and tedious. I get you wanna be heard clearly over the phone, but you could just annunciate.

Praytell, how does one go about enunciating a missing H? More than likely the person realizes you're a dolt and is helping you by spelling words.

R320 Some of us have lisps and need to spell out our names so people can understand us!

People who whine about other people's pet peeve just because that pet peeve is about other people's pet peeves.

People who aren't bothered by other people's obviously silly pet peeve. They bug the hell out of me.

I’m annoyed by the MANY people who claim to have “social anxiety”.

To me it’s just an excuse for being ... lame.

Practically everyone’s nervous before they enter a party, do public speaking, or whatever. But you do those things a few times, you don’t die, and you just keep on.

Way to mock someone else's disability. Just because a few idiots pretend to have social anxiety doesn't mean it's not a real, debilitating disorder for many people.

TATTOOS

PIERCINGS

RINGS

SHAVED PUBIC HAIR

What's wrong with rings, R407?

R407 I absolutely loathe shaved pubic hair! It looks so unnatural and creepy!!! Ewww

[quote]R406 Way to mock someone else's disability. Just because a few idiots pretend to have social anxiety doesn't mean it's not a real, debilitating disorder for many people.

I know some people have debilitating phobias, but those are rare.

I met a high school graduate who was looking for a job, and I asked what he could do, in case I heard of anything.

He said he needed to work alone, away from others, because he was anxious around people. I was just like, “???????” You have no experience, no college degree or expertise, and you think any workplace is going to simply give you an office where they’ll bring work to you.... because others make you nervous??

I should have suggested he become a sheep herder, or a night watchman (?)

I had a roommate once who said she thought shy people should "just get over it". If only it were that easy!

[quote] People that pay large Costco charges (three hundred dollars or more) with hundred-dollar bills. I know damn well that this was earned under the table and no taxes were paid.

I don't know where you live but our ATMs dispense $100 bills.

Social anxiety is a real thing, believe me. It can be maddening and very frustrating.

Wet toilet paper

People who use "masseuse" for a male masseur.

Express line with a lot of items

Walking on the left (wrong) side of the sidewalk

Speaker phone on public transport

[quote]r411 I had a roommate once who said she thought shy people should "just get over it". If only it were that easy!

People can be shy and still function around others. If you don’t want to go to parties, fine. If you don’t want to go to work or meet basic responsibilities... your life is going to be very hard. Not to mention everyone will find you indulgent and exasperating. So it’s in one’s own best interest to work through it.

[quote]r413 Social anxiety is a real thing, believe me. It can be maddening and very frustrating.

We all find different issues maddening and frustrating. We learn to fix it... or to hide it, so we’re not a drain on others.

Sorry - it’s an imperfect world.

r417 social anxiety can be a terrible thing to work through, but it can be done. All that was said that it's very hard to deal with. People do deal with it, though.

The person I know who had “social anxiety” got a summer job as a restaurant host. It forced him to interact with strangers on a limited basis, and forge superficial relationships with the regulars he had to make feel special.

It was also beneficial working with the rest of the staff on a shared, short term goal (having a smooth, swift shift without customer complaint, or at least disaster) and a good host really does have contact with everyone on staff, though limited contact. So that might be a good boot camp experience for direly afflicted introverts.

Good advice, R419. But you assume that the social anxiety sufferer wants to change, and not all of us do. Before I retired, I had to spend time with people every day to earn a living, but now I don't. I've outlived my husband and the rest of my family, so the non-professional aspects of life don't require me to deal with people either. I'm free to be the hermit that I've always wanted to be, so I am. The supermarket, drugstore, Costco, bank, PO, and library all have self-service machines -- medical personnel are the only people I have to meet in person and that's usually just twice a year. I wave at the neighbors if I see them across the street, but I don't trot over and chat with them. I'm no longer anxious because I'm no longer social, thank goodness!

[quote]R420 But you assume that the social anxiety sufferer wants to change, and not all of us do.

Oh, no... of course people can do whatever they want, as long as they can afford it.

I was speaking more of those who, like the majority of people, have to make their way in the world. But if someone doesn’t [italic]need [/italic]to work or interact, by all means stay home.

Primitives and perverts.

My pet peeve is hearing the terms "yum," "yummy" or (worse yet) "yummo" used by anyone over the age of 12.

The current social pressure to believe any allegation if it is made by a woman, trans or people of color, without waiting to ascertain the facts. And the bullshit about people "speaking their truth" if they are found to have lied or made things up.

I lost a friendship with a woman who got into a big argument with me when she insisted that every woman must always be believed when she alleges harassment or rape.

R424 Totally agree. That grinds my gears in a way I can fully describe. It’s so infantilizing to women and demonizing of men.

And it belies a certain moral panic that we haven’t seen since the 80s.

R419 You're right. Quite often it is a matter of exposure. In my job (as with many jobs) I have to do a certain amount of "small talk" with people. It was never debilitating for me, but I dreaded it so much that I literally had to force myself to do it. I watched other people do it and the more I had to do it the more I learned HOW to do it. I still hate it, but I am a lot more comfortable doing it and it's not a problem.

[quote] Wet toilet paper

Oh honey, no. You're only supposed to wipe once per wad. Especially if you've got the wets down there. Maybe try a bidet?

[quote] People who use "masseuse" for a male masseur.

The correct term is either Masseux or just "whore".

Asking for a pearl necklace and being taken to a jewelry store by mistake

The next in line using the previous guy's ejaculate as lubricant

Cops who tell my neighbor it was I who called them for a noise complaint

R423 - I have to listen to my dad say, "yum, yum, yummy for my tummy" every time his wife puts down dinner.

R430

I think I would simply stab him to death with a shrimp fork.

Ebay sellers who charge double or triple normal shipping rates. Seems to happen more in Canada than anywhere else. A seller has an item I want, we live in the same province, but he seems convinced standard shipping to me will cost $35.

If you get into a self checkout lane with a cart full of groceries, you're a narcissistic cunt. Plain and simple.

Actors who have appeared nude on stage

TV shows that ended too soon.

Butter by BTS

[quote]Ebay sellers who charge double or triple normal shipping rates.

I used to feel this way, then I discovered it's the USPS that's charging so much. I know the weight of 99% of the few things I buy on eBay, so it's easy enough to figure out the postage. And every time in the past year I thought I was being overcharged, nope, it's just that the Post Office has raised their prices.

Amazon has created a culture in which we expect, and often choose, items with free shipping. But there's no logical reason why something should fly from CA to PA for free. It's life on life's terms.

I think sellers also factor in extra cost for their labor, like wrapping and having to go to the post office.

When ejaculate tastes like sewage.

Bad hygiene!

- Brush your teeth!

- Soap is cheap and water is free!

Guys who get mad and call you a catfish or a cocktease because you won't immediately come fuck them because they liked your picture on a dating app... really?

R441, I know!

Sex slaves who try to escape from your dungeon.

Morons who call themselves "progressive" yet vote 3rd party and help Republicans win elections.

People who put mushrooms in everything.

Mushrooms are absolutely vile. Nasty texture, worse taste, and the smell makes me gag. Why do people ruin perfectly good food by polluting it with mushrooms. They contaminate everything they touch. Ugh.

Amen R444. And these same people constantly criticize Democrats but never, (and I mean NEVER) say anything negative to or about Republicans!

I stand in line five to ten minutes at a fast food place. Eventually, the person in front of me is now first in line, and the workers ask to take their order. The jackass in front of me has no idea what to order. They look bewildered and confused by the choices on the menu.

Last week, the woman in front of me, when she got to the front of the line, she spent two minutes hemming and hawing and asking stupid questions about the food. Then she placed her order. Then she turned to the person next to her (not sure if that person was child or adult), and said to them, "What do you want?" That person had no idea what they wanted either, and they spent another three minutes going back and forth about it."

Make up your damn mind about your order while you're standing in line. Then, when it's your turn to order, state what you want in ten seconds, and move the fuck out of the way so that the line can keep moving. Dumbasses.

An unorganized spice rack. Or a spice wheel, where you just keep rotating the fucker over and over trying to find the spice you want that you didn't see on the first 3 rotations.

Yes, this is personal.

Cashiers and front counter people who drone on and on making "friendly" idle chit chat with a customer while there's a line waiting. I'm sure management wants them to be sociable with customers (and it's almost always with women over 30), but not at the point of pissing off everyone waiting to be done with their business. Go friend them on Facebook and keep the line moving, God damn it.

When he says he won't cum in you but does it anyway.

People like R444 who call themselves cock suckers, but can't take all nine inches of my man meat.

R477, I was in line behind a middle-aged woman at Taco Bell once... and it was absolutely clear she had never been to Taco Bell before, and had no idea what ANY of the items on the menu were. It was infuriating. How do you get to that point in life and have no clue? Asking for details about what was in every single menu item, and what was different between these two menu items, and those two menu items, and asking about things that clearly weren't on the menu but apparently she had heard about somewhere, ugh. WTF IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?

And what the fuck made her decide to make THAT day the very first day she'd ever go into a taco bell? I mean, if she'd made it 40+ years without ever going before, she probably could have lived the rest of her life without going. But no, she had to deliberately inconvenience everyone by going in and being a moron about it. IT'S NOT LIKE TACOS AND BURRITOS ARE COMPLICATED.

R452 - no, she had been there before.

R447 - that happens in drive thrus ALL THE TIME. I hate to say it - but it's always women. Single woman, two women, woman with kids - doesn't matter.

The other fuckers in drive-thrus are the construction guys who are ordering lunch for their crew. CALL AHEAD. Don't order 10 people's worth of shit in a drive thru.

[quote]R448 a spice wheel, where you just keep rotating the fucker over and over trying to find the spice you want that you didn't see on the first 3 rotations. (Yes, this is personal.)

Only on Lifetime:

[italic]Spice Wheel II: This Time it’s Personal

R452 maybe she wasn't Mexican.

R455 Neither is Taco Bell

Filling the dish washer. No need to help me cleaning up, people! You wouldn't know how. I have a system to fill the dish washer the right way. I have my own system, the only system that is right.

R453, the people who order ten people's food are annoying. But you know what makes it worse. When they want to treat each person's food as a separate order, with a separate receipt. This is just as grating when it's just two people's food. Just pay the bill of 12 bucks; then show your buddy the receipt, and make them pay you back. But NOOOOOOO. Here's ten dollars for the first order. And then here's ten dollars for the second order. Give me both receipts. This happens in the grocery store too. A couple times it was a crafty way of complying with the ten-item ceiling in the express checkout. But usually it's some OCD need to keep your buddy's purchases separate from your own...even though you're doing your buddy's shopping. What's wrong? You don't want to mix the items on a single receipt, because then your buddy will see that you bought lube and condoms? It's usually women doing this, and they're usually POCs.

People at the grocery store that wait until they are told what their total is to take out their wallet. It is almost as if they are surprised they have to pay for the groceries. I hate to say this, but the most annoying are women rummaging through their purse trying to find their wallet.

R395 that sounds like me. What is that little pill called? I need it!

R453- What are all of you FAT WHORES doing at a fast food restaurant?

R459- When I was a kid it was rummaging through their POCKETBOOKS to find their purse-,which contained all of their money.

[quote]Soap is cheap and water is free!

R440 Where do you live? I pay my municipality for my water....

Every drive-thru should post the menu at least two car lengths from the microphone. The ones that post the menu right at the mike are always have long lines. Give the customer a couple minutes to look over the menu (none of them are simple, they all have 'special' deals), and then he'll be ready to order when he gets to the microphone.

Don't go through a drive-thru if you have special orders. Drag your fat ass into the restaurant and order at the counter then stand and wait for all your wishes to be fulfilled.

People who can't just order what's on the menu, they have to make substitutions and special accommodations: "Can I have this on the side, and this instead of that, and can you add this and not put this on it? MADDENING. And then of course when their Very Special Meal arrives, it isn't prepared precisely the right way so it has to be sent back and re-done. By the time the person is satisfied, everybody else if practically done eating and has to wait around.

I agree with the posters above - I had two old ladies in front of me in Subway who had never been there before! How can you go through life and never have been to Subway? "Um, what kind of bread is there?" IT'S ON THE STICKER RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU WITH PICTURES, DUMBASS!

R467 Lots of people have never been to Subway. You're an asswipe.

How about when an entire family decides to go grocery shopping in a Manhattan grocery store. There’s mom and dad and the gigantic stroller and the screaming kids who don’t want to be there. Why can’t one of the adults do the shopping alone and the other one takes the kids home? Instead they have to clog up the narrow aisles with all their paraphernalia and noisy brats. Why anyone would WANT to shop with little kids if they had any alternative at all, I don’t know. And it makes everyone else miserable, too. This chore doesn’t need an entourage.

R468- and a LOT of people HAVE been to Subway and WISHED they'd never been there.

Subway is an absolute last resort for me.

I would literally have to be starving to death to eat at McDonalds or Taco Bell.

Part of the problem is that these sandwich places (or taco, or burger) list so many items, I can barely read them all until I get right up to the register, let alone decide what I want. Panera is a perfect example. They used to have so many fewer items, you could read them from ten feet away. Now the entire menu is on three separate boards, all in tinytype. I don't bother going there anymore, it's so annoying.

I haven't been to Taco Bell very often, maybe six times since 1978, but the last time, the board was so crowded, it took me a while to decide what I wanted.

R471- NJ Mikes Subs is FAR better than Subway , although they are pretty expensive.

It's called Jersey Mike's r474, and it's worth it.

R475- They are worth it. Their sandwiches are very good for such a big chain store.

If someone has never been to a restaurant with a menu posted above the counter where orders are placed, they should not get in line until they've had time to read the menu while standing off to the side, and decided what they want. If they have questions about items on the menu, they should refrain from asking them and choose something that doesn't pose questions for them. It's just common courtesy not to hold up a line of people waiting to order. If there's no line, feel free to ask questions and take your time deciding what to order -- otherwise, be polite!

R463 My point is that even if the water aint running at home (or you don't have a home), there are plenty of public places you can get water to wash your ass for free! No excuse for you to be walking around funky, polluting our air and assaulting the rest of our nostrils! Wash your ass!

R478 Now you're just trying to justify your original statement. Why would you assume anyone knew you were writing about public toilets? Wouldn't the soap also be free in a public toilet or was your homeless person carrying around his own bar of "cheap" soap?

If I am unfamiliar with a restaurant I check to see if they have an online menu.

R479 Everyone knows that municipalities charge for water! Duh! What are you, stupid? A lot of public toilets don't have soap... u ever been in a gas station toilet? Besides there are places other than public toilets where free water is available - drinking fountains - rivers - streams - oceans - gyms - homeless shelters - certain government buildings. Need I go on?

Score 1 for the person responding to the OP. Score Zero for the troll attempting to attack! LOL

Don't get your panties in a knot just because what you thought was a clever quip landed flat! HAHAHA

I went to McDonald’s drive thru and had to pick the line where the SUV in front of me took 15 minutes to place their order into the mic. They looked at that fucking menu for 8 minutes and then spent the other 7 minutes conversing and asking questions from the McDonald’s employee via the mic. I was at first pissed off and then frustrated sitting there idling in my vehicle. Then that turned into being amused and laughing at the whole absurdity of the situation.

People who say/type "I know, right?" You sound like an idiot.

I like watching videos on youtube of birds ( parakeets and parrots) being given messages by their owners. The birds are called BIRBS and the head rubs are called SCRITCHES. I can't stand this. It's BIRDS not BIRBS. It's SCRATCHES not SCRITCHES.

People who say “I seen.”

Being dyslexic I don't comment on peoples spelling or grammar R485. As a matter of fact, the Oh, Dear grammar and spelling queen can go to hell. They are a bully, period. These grammar queens take delight in ostracizing people to make up for their lack of a life and friends.

You left out a comma, R486. Couldn't even make it three words into the first sentence without a gross grammar error. Tsk-tsk.

R483, I know, right?!?

No comma needed you fucking idiot R487.

The spelling and grammar queens really are a nuisance. DL isn't a research paper or a professional presentation.

R473, and now at McDonalds they have this animated dynamic display that changes. There are various combinations and “deals”, and sometimes you have to wait until it cycles back to see the price (in small type) of what a single Filet O’ Fish costs. At a regular sit-down restaurant, there’s a menu that doesn’t jump around, and you can see the price.

There’s a Sweetgreen salad takeout place near me, and there’s no menu posted anywhere that’s visible from the sidewalk. You have to go inside and presumably there’s some sort of paper menu. There’s nothing above the counter that lists the options and the prices. There’s no menu posted in the window. There are no prices on their website; you have to download the app and place an order to see how much it costs.

Okay, BE all mysterious about your esoteric price structure. I just wanted to know how much a salad would run me. I’ll go to Just Salad where it’s posted above the counter. No nasty little surprises when it’s time to pay.

People who use the term "fur baby." No, dumbass, it's a dog. You don't sound cute by saying fur baby, you sound desperate for attention.

Agreed, R492 -- "furrever home" is another one. I love animal lovers, but they should shut up until they learn to stop the babytalk.

People who use multiple punctuation marks at the end of a sentence. What is the purpose!?!

[quote]"furrever home"

Another expression I would not have had to consider had I not read it on the pages of Datalounge.

[quote]R494 People who use multiple punctuation marks at the end of a sentence. What is the purpose!?!

I put spaces between mine, so they really stand out.

[italic]Why must they persecute us ? ! ?

R489, where did you go to school, because yes, a comma was very much needed there.

I am torn about spelling, punctuation and grammar. Sometimes errors bother me, sometimes they don't.

If there are one or two spelling errors in an entire posting - who cares. But if someone repeats errors or mutilates grammar to the effect that it slows down my reading effort (because my brain stops at every sentence to interpret) then I get annoyed. If you are too lazy to write a coherent text, and you expect me to decipher your gibberish because you didn't want to put in the leg work, I'll just move on to the next post. Not to punish you, only because your post is likely not interesting enough to make me work through it.

People who say "I seen" sound like ignorant redneck hicks. They just do. If it doesn't bother you that you sound that way, go for it. But it automatically deducts 20 points from your IQ.

Food snobs.

People who are, say, turning 32 & talk about how they want their "32nd" year to be. You're starting your 33rd year, not your 32nd year!

R498 I'm much more annoyed by grammar for the very reason you stated. It slows down my reading. My mind can quickly adjust to bad punctuation. Usually I can quickly figure out what the fool is trying to say based on context but grammar really fucks shit up bcuz it can drastically change the meaning.

R457 you sound like me. If I let anyone else load the dishwasher we would run it twice a day because no one has the spacial capacity to do it correctly! They also put plastics in the lower rack, mix bowls and glasses together, think it’s OK to put nonstick skillets & steak knives in, and my wood handled cooking utensils in the dishwasher! It drives me insane!

R474 I think Jimmy John’s is better!

[quote] [R457] you sound like me. If I let anyone else load the dishwasher we would run it twice a day because no one has the spacial capacity to do it correctly! They also put plastics in the lower rack, mix bowls and glasses together, think it’s OK to put nonstick skillets & steak knives in, and my wood handled cooking utensils in the dishwasher! It drives me insane!

You all are just experts at cramming a lot into a tight space.

People who confuse Zinnias with Astors.

[quote]no one has the spacial capacity to do it correctly!

r503, "special" or "spatial"?

No, R504. Just... no.

Both R507!

One of my pet peeves is that I waited until 1973 to buy [italic]Pet Sounds[/italic] instead of buying it when it was originally released in 1966. I believed whoever the douche was who declared them "Doris Days on surfboards," and for the first time ever, failed to buy one of their records when it came out.

Thankfully, Brother Records re-released it, either in 1972 or 1973, and I bought it at the end of winter, 1973. It really was, and still is, one of my favorite albums of all time.

The experience cured me of listening to critics, and to trust my own taste.

Brian Wilson was a musical genius. Unfortunately, just like John Phillips, his drug abuse and mental issues got in the way and he couldn't really work anymore. It's a shame, when you think of what their creative output could've been if they hadn't been so fucked up for so many years.

I had a peeve but it got off its leash and ran into the undergrowth 😭

r511, I'm so glad SMiLe started coming out, first in 1993, with the GV box set, then separate releases of Brian Wilson Presents SMiLe in 2004, with the Wondermints, and then the 2011 release of the Beach Boys' version.

I'd always loved the 45 of "Heroes and Villains," and I didn't even know back in 1967 that it was just a fragment of a piece of music called SMiLe. I thought I had died and gone to heaven when I bought the Good Vibrations box set and listened to disc 2. I like SMiLe even more than Pet Sounds. The two of them are among my favorite records of all time.

[quote] I think Jimmy John’s is better!

Jimmy John's is to Subway as:

a. Perkins is to Denny's

b. Shelley Hack is to Cheryl Ladd

c. Holiday Inn is to Sheraton

d. Staten Island is to Queens

e. Kevin Jonas is to Nick Jonas

[quote] I believed whoever the douche was who declared them "Doris Days on surfboards," ...

R510, I agree with the critic you quote, whomever it is, and wish I'd had the wit to describe "Pet Sounds" so aptly.

That's "[italic]who[/italic]ever it is," r515.

R514 are you nuts? Jimmy John’s is way better than Subway!

[quote]You all are just experts at cramming a lot into a tight space.

I think that the poster and possibly myself seem to be able to organize while loading the dishwasher. I'm pretty sure the people who can't load the dishwasher properly are also the people who for the life of them can't put dishes away properly. They have mismatched pieces all over he place, there's plates where there should be bowls, odd sizes all stacked together, nothing goes in its "home", etc.

It's like they can't create a system.

R518 also the people that cannot load a dishwasher properly also cannot park a car properly.

Flabby asses in tight pants. Why are you wearing pants that tight when your ass is a car wreck?

R519 I fit your description - can't do either task decently.

Anything and everything related to BRF - Seriously, get a life. You're insane.

The Gap Store Playlist troll. We get it already. You once worked a fucking minimum wage job for several years folding clothes at a fucking store at a mall from the mid 90's to the early aughts. Congratulations!

The TCM troll. It's called TV Guide, bitch. We don't need an announcement on here every time something is fucking airing on that channel.

Oh, and the "Theatre Gossip" queen. This bitch was already red-lined. Why is she back again?

R522 what does BRF stand for?

[quote]R520 Flabby asses in tight pants. Why are you wearing pants that tight when your ass is a car wreck?

[italic]I’M BIG BONED!

R524, BRF stands for British Royal Family.

The 2015 thread bumper bugs me.

Inserted Trump-themed jokes into every thread.

"We get it", you hate your ex-president. There are already 6363636637 threads about it. No one else cares anymore.

R528 these are exactly the type of people who engage in cancel culture. They are too dim to have an original thought, so they just pile on to whatever the mob is doing. They are sad little fools.

People who THINK they're hot and aren't- FOR example: Wavy Davy and Mathew Dempsey . Both of them are merely SCENEY and QUEENY.

People who think they are witty but are just annoying bitter queens! They are the stereotype nobody likes.

Those internet articles where you have to keep clicking through to read the fucking article. As an example:

The one thing your dog is trying to tell you, click.

Not only does he love you, click

And you love him too, click

But being an animal, click

They have a way of communicating, click

Just as you have a way of communicating, click

Sometimes it is with sound, click

Sometimes it is with their movements, click

When you see your dog doing odd things, click

He is trying to tell you something, click

R532 OMG, yes! I haven't learned to ignore the bait but I have learned to give up after 4 clicks and no answer.

Ebay sellers who remove an item because they've sold it outside of ebay. Give the rest of us a chance you prick.

R532 Most of the time the click bait is a lie or grossly misleading. When i see click bait i usually just google the topic to see if there is anything new on it. I resist the bait.

^^ Well, smell you!

Porn Pet Peeves: 1.) Guys hiding their faces or wearing disguises (POV is fine but ALWAYS pan back a few times so we can see who's fucking). 2.) Guys staring into the camera (WTF are u lookin at me for? This is a voyeur experience. Look at your partner). 3.) Guys playing LOUD music during porn (I rather hear the sounds of the men. Music generally is distracting... if it's loud, it is fucking annoying). 4.) Guys who are overly tatted. (Actors like it cause they immediately know their work but it aint about you! Seeing massive tattoos takes me out of it). 5.) Actors doing camera work (WTF? I don't wanna see your phones or your camera man walking around - it takes me out of the fantasy). 6.) Guys using condoms (If you're gonna do porn, do porn! It's 2021, get tested, get on prep and let us see the fantasy fucking we're here for). 7.) Poor Quality (When the lighting is too dark, the camera is shaking or at a bad angle, or bad (or no) sound it sucks). 8.) Mumbling Actors (If you are gonna say something be loud and clear or STFU) 9.) No money shot? (I wanna see CUM! I prefer both guys cumming, but at least one is a MUST! I wanna see him spray or pull out and see it leak). 10.) Pet's watching (WTF? Lock the dog in the other room).

When I worked in food service & did janitorial work to pay for school, folks would take it upon themselves to move tables together (that were already RIGHT NEXT TO EACH OTHER), but would never make it a point to move them back.

And you better believe I didn't either. That task always went to someone else. I would clean toilets all day, but I would NOT move those fucking tables back.

That most people can't get good jobs without connections.

R537 has stated her bounderies!

R 539

Or skills.

Y'all sure are a bunch of peevish bitches!

R540 was that really necessary? How about adding something to the OP instead of attacking people who probably don't give a fuck about your petty ass?

r543 has [italic]really[/italic] stated her boundaries!

R544 Has really shown her whole asshole! And it aint pretty!

One can ask questions about an Amazon products, such as "Can I use this outside?" or "Does it hike up your electric bill much?"

Like clockwork there are posts of "I don't know" or "Not sure" etc. in the thread. The questions are not addressed individually to those people, so what's with these meaningless responses???

R541 skills are secondary to knowing the right person. I've worked with enough incompetent people to know having the same last name as someone already working there was the only reason they had their job.

Currently it's people who think walking and texting go together.

People who eat while they are driving.

[quote] People who eat while they are driving.

Can't even. Little says more to me "Ugly side of America" when you see some lard-ass in a huge gas-guzzler wolfing down fast food while speeding. Fear of prison keeps me from wanting to clip their car into a spin-out.

People who talk on their phones while they drive. I live in a small town where it takes less than ten minutes to get anywhere. And yet, continually, I see these women (90% of them are women) in their huge SUVs talking on their cell phones instead of operating their vehicle. What is it that you have to say that is so important that it requires you to endanger my life and the lives of all the other people on the road with you with your distracted driving? It can't wait ten minutes?

Here is the conversation I imagine Tonya is having with her sister Kelsea: "Did you see what Brittany was wearing at the supermarket?"

R551 - everyone talks on their cell phone - and it's legal if it is mounted. That's just modern life - I'd rather see someone talking on their phone than texting.

In the same spirit of my previous post about unorganized spice wheels, I hate a kitchen cabinet of unorganized tupperware / plastic food containers where you're constantly searching for a container and its lid. Take them all out, write a number on the bottom of it and the same number on the lid and keep them together.

[quote] In the same spirit of my previous post about unorganized spice wheels, I hate a kitchen cabinet of unorganized tupperware / plastic food containers

My kitchen, my choice!

People who say "an historical" NPR is the worst offender.

The h is not silent cunts! Historical does not start with a fucking vowel sound!

Unless the speaker is a Cockney, R554.

[quote]People who eat while they are driving.

R549 I will add: Women who apply makeup while driving.

R554 This link addresses the problem...

Yes NPR newsreaders in Southern California are not British and they do not sound the least bit posh when they use this retarded construction because they are still FULLY pronouncing the h in historic.

Getting all atwitter about not prouncing the h in historic is a new level of Datalounge fusspottery.

Ok Jan, that's not even what this is about.

When the in-studio TV audience claps when one of the hosts says their catch-phrase.

There used to be a TV chef who would dump a pile of hot spices into whatever dish he was making and shout "Bam!" and the audience would clap like trained seals. This happens on The View all the time too, when Joy says something retarded which is every five seconds.

Speaking of The View - I hate it when Whoopie cuts a fart and tries to cover it with a cough or a grunt. She did this about two weeks ago, and even Meghan's eyes were watering on the other side of the room.

Grown men who watch shit like the View and other shows for Fraus.

Men with micro-penises who use the word "frau".

7.5" and thiccc r564. Shooter, not a dribbler. Come over here and I'll fill your mouth.

Whoops I'm r563 @ r565

Instant dealbreaker: Men who watch shit for fraus like The View and Housewives shows. Men who are into music and tv shows aimed at a teenage girl demographic. Tragic cases of arrested development and they're just so basic.

People who can't reply on DL without making multiple mistakes in one simple post.

People like r568 who don't know about Autocorrect and Siri.

People who don't proofread their posts before hitting the post button, and then blame technology to hide their clearly exposed ignorance.

My pet peeve is when potentially great threads deteriorate into petty arguments between two queens.

R564 is obviously a frau, not a queen.

Control freak queens like r571. "This thread is NOT going the way I WANT it to!"

R573 I admit to it.

I hate people who use the "ask/answer" type conversation.

Example: "Do I wish things weren't this way? Yes I do. Can I do anything to change it now? No I can't."

It has become so annoying, I immediately tune out.

Any time someone suddenly uses astrology to explain/justify their own or someone else's behavior. "It didn't make sense that he did that, but he's a scorpio..." How freaking retarded to think that everyone born within a four-week time frame, regardless of how many years apart they were born, have some personality trait in common.

Gay men I follow filling up my Twitter feed with clips of Beyonce and the like.

Oh dear. What an histrionic cunt.

[quote] when you see some lard-ass in a huge gas-guzzler wolfing down fast food while speeding.

Typically they are not speeding when they eat or are on the phone. My pet peeve is that they're usually actually slowing down way below the speed limit. And they start to counter-steer because they are distracted and not following the lane straight. Their entire driving behavior becomes erratic which really frightens every car behind them.

One more pet peeve just for Dataloungers: The plural of Frau is Frauen, not Fraus. Sounds too foreign-ish? You say men and children, not mans and childs. It makes perfect sense.

R580 is a saurekrauten.

^ Don't make me come over and oh dear you!

If "frauen" sounds "too foreign-ish", that's because "frau" is a German word.

Ebay sellers who don't respond to questions until the auction is close to ending.

You don't say, R583! Well, who ever heard of such a thing?

People who insist that antidepressants are unnecessary. YOU try dealing with major chronic depression through meditation and exercise, asshole.

People who pick their teeth at the table after a meal.

When a restaurant discontinues your favorite item.

It happens so much to me that it's actually a standing joke with my friends.

Virtue signalers who feel the need to constantly refer to their pets as “rescue” animals. Back in the day, it was enough to say your pets were from the “pound.”

- Fat people who always eat a salad when you go out to eat. - Queens who always mention their wives or show everyone pictures of their kid. - People who are always on personal calls, goofing off, taking long breaks and 2+ hours for lunch bragging about working "late." - Salesmen who tell you they're giving you a huge discount when you've seen the same item online from a competitor at the same (or a lower price). - People who speak in a fake scholarly voice and show off using a lot of big words which are (unfortunately) often out of context.

[quote] When a restaurant discontinues your favorite item. It happens so much to me that it's actually a standing joke with my friends.

Oh honey, no. The kind wait staff are not your friends either.

There's not gonna be too many times I'm returning to a restaurant that doesn't have my favorites. I'd find a new place.

Packaging that is difficult to open. Hard plastic is the worst.

Grocery stores that discontinue your favorite items. Sometimes I think they actually use my receipts in picking which foods to stop carrying.

When people don't cut off visible manufacturer tags. Also, when people don't remove stickers (bar codes, etc.), especially from kitchen items.

Is R591 a moron, or what? What was that response even supposed to mean? How is it even remotely relevant? It's not.

People who pick their ass at the table after a meal.

TV people who masturbate during Zoom meetings and suffer no consequences.

That I can't afford nice things.

People who claim the 600 spot without having anything really to say.

People who manage to somehow post a reply past R600

Holy Shit! We have entered an alternative universe! Do the laws of physics not even apply any more? Is there no God. Is there no Muriel?