Pet Peeves?

Professor Smooth · Post by **Professor Smooth** » Fri Nov 11, 2005 10:28 pm

What are some things that people do that drives you up a wall? Any wall will do. I'll get us started, eh?

1) Chewing with their mouths open. Oh, yee gods, how this bothers me!

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Fri Nov 11, 2005 11:39 pm

Basts that are smoking at the buss-stop!

It's as if no matter how you position yourself, the wind changes and the smoke gets into your face!

There's been many an occassion were the tussle have been close, because a bloody cock just had to have a touch of his cigarr before moving his arse on the bus!

And speaking about tobacco... in sweden the product 'snus' or snuff is very popular. The problem however, is that it's not only sold in little bagged portion-form, but also in loose form. Wich means a mashed mush of tobbaco wich you stick up your lip. And a lot of fools seems to enjoy the messy loose version, where they have to take a big lump of snuff-mush and press it together into a ball, a prilla, before the can stick it up their lip. And most of them make a big f**king mess when they make their little balls.. And then they may have the audacity to take out the prilla and smack it on the wall, or on the floor.

That's when the sh*t hits the fan...

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 1:08 am

Predabot wrote: a bloody cock

"This song is about shooting blood out of your cock!" / George Fisher.

...

Old ladys that think they own the whole god damn world.
"Look at me, I'm old and small so I can shove my elbow up your ass".

IronHide · Post by **IronHide** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 1:45 am

Dirty Dishes lying around the house

No toilet paper on the dispenser

Dashboard Confessional......

Optimus Prime Rib · Post by **Optimus Prime Rib** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 7:27 am

All of my pet peves have died.

Professor Smooth · Post by **Professor Smooth** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 8:21 am

People who stink all the friggin' time. Everybody has a day where, for whatever reason, they've left the house without deodorant. No worries there. But these people who have a stink-aura around them...

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 2:22 pm

Predabot wrote:And speaking about tobacco... in sweden the product 'snus' or snuff is very popular. The problem however, is that it's not only sold in little bagged portion-form, but also in loose form. Wich means a mashed mush of tobbaco wich you stick up your lip. And a lot of fools seems to enjoy the messy loose version, where they have to take a big lump of snuff-mush and press it together into a ball, a prilla, before the can stick it up their lip. And most of them make a big f**king mess when they make their little balls.. And then they may have the audacity to take out the prilla and smack it on the wall, or on the floor.

Yeah I was given that by a Swedish acquaintance. 'Scool.

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 4:08 pm

IronHide wrote:Dirty Dishes lying around the house

I hear you there! There's just no need is there? I'm not saying people have to wash up their dishes straight away? But leaving them laying around the house is just not on... it's just lazy.

Another one of mine is people not putting things back where they got them from.

Oh and another, people that moan about people smoking at bus stops.

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 7:21 pm

religon

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 7:57 pm

People going "OH LORD we have the greatest footy team in the world. We are unstopable. We are the greatest, the best, the strongest, the tallest, we will kick your ass and lick your balls" even though the team hasnt done anything worth mentioning the past fourty years.

Uh-oh.

saysadie · Post by **saysadie** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 6:38 am

Cigarettes.

I'm a smoker, but sometimes I can't stand it.

People who critique movies while you're watching them. Esp. if it's a new movie or a cheesy old favourite that the other person doesn't like.

On the same note, people who judge films right off the bat without really knowing that much about them.

That last goes for people who judge other things and people the same way, too.

Oh, people who talk about other people. I hate having to listen to crap like that, and it usually backfires as it makes me avoid the person telling me the ***** instead of the other way around.

Cookies with raisins in them. Blagh!

Oh, and this:

http://transfans.tfarchive3.com/phpBB2/ ... 5166#65166

Scraplet · Post by **Scraplet** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 3:02 pm

OOOh. Intollerant and irrational people.

And the bloody French

And people who can't spell intollorant.

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 5:41 pm

Why do you hate the French? What'd they do that's worse then the Brits?

Except for that cake wich you see in the BlackAdder Millenium-special...

Scraplet · Post by **Scraplet** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 12:11 am

Predabot wrote:Why do you hate the French? What'd they do that's worse then the Brits?

It was an attempt at irony, and, I thought, a pretty obvious one.
Jeez........

Or are you not being serious either........

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 7:41 am

People who talk in cinemas.

Raisins in curry (why put them there? WHY?)

The fact that in this country its impossible to buy an ice cold fizzy drink. All shop refrigerators seem to be set slightly below 'lukewarm'.

Eline · Post by **Eline** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 8:08 am

People who answer the phone in cinemas!

Cyclist who don't signal direction at a crossroad. Should I guess where they are going?

People with no manners.

Ignorant people who are not curious or interested in learning.

Bullying.

People who live in another country and refuse to learn the local language.

Fake designer handbags/tshirts/etc.

Standing in line. I really hate that!

Rice pudding, or anything sweet with rice. Yuck.

Impolite people who work in shops. You're not paid to chat with your colleage, you know?

Hmmm... I think there is a lot more.

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 12:59 pm

Cyclists.
Not that I have anything against the concept of people travelling around by bike - it's just that in London they have absolutely no consideration for pedestrian crossings, or pedestrians for that matter. Car drivers, on the other hand, tend to watch out for people on foot when driving through city streets. I spend my commuting time in fear of aggressive or inept cyclists. And to paraphrase Douglas Adams, they operate from a moral high ground that only cyclists seem to inhabit.

Dog owners.
Not all dog owners, just the ones whose cute little mutts manage to squeeze huge piles of crap out of their fully little arseholes all over my street. And now it's autumn, so fallen leaves make the trip to the corner shop even more of a dog**** roulette than normal.

Preachers.
"Hi there, would you like to come and join us for a cup of tea and a chat?"
"Are you going to talk to me about Jesus?"
"Yes."
"...I'll pass, thanks."

Scraplet · Post by **Scraplet** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 1:12 pm

Cold-call phone sales people. Especially the ones who don't tell you what they want, but try to ask you 20 questions.

"HI I'm representing Loansharks UK Ltd. Can I ask, are you a homeowner? Do you have store or credit cards? Are you looking to make any home improvments? How much do you spend each month on loans?"

CLICK.

I'd still hang-up on them, but I'd have much more respect for them if they just said "do you want a loan?" And we'd save 30 seconds of our lives from being wasted.

Eline · Post by **Eline** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 1:36 pm

Metal Vendetta wrote:Preachers.
"Hi there, would you like to come and join us for a cup of tea and a chat?"
"Are you going to talk to me about Jesus?"
"Yes."
"...I'll pass, thanks."

Or the other trick they use:
"Hi, can I ask you something?"
Then I used to assume that they wanted to know where the post office or something was, so I said yes, and they start talking about Jesus.

Or people in the shopping streets wanting to sell you a newspaper subscription or something, then the two or three of them block the street so you have no choice but to talk to them. Or they start talking to you when you're on your mobile phone having a converstation, that is really rude!

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 1:59 pm

Metal Vendetta wrote: Preachers.
"Hi there, would you like to come and join us for a cup of tea and a chat?"
"Are you going to talk to me about Jesus?"
"Yes."
"...I'll pass, thanks."

Fool, you got to drink their tea first and then bugger off! sooner or later (according to my brain) they'll run out of tea and therefore stop harrassing people. by drinking their tea, you're doing the public a service...

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 5:21 pm

Hmm... a lot of these irriatation-sources seems to be partially cultural? I've never experienced preachers coming up to you in the street, or bicyklists not being considerate.. I find that were I come from, ussually the problem is with drivers...

And drivers in Thailand??

I was petrified to cross the streets there! I do wonder, how does the trafic-regulations work on Singapore, Aaron? A man with several children like you, would probably be concerned about such things.

Phone-salesmen? Yepp.. we've got em'... they're ussually apple-plum happy in that swedish manor tho..

Never EVER had a loan or insurance-individual call up tho?? Mostly it's either the phone-companys trying to win your favor over each other, with all these new deals, or some magazine-perscription.

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 5:44 pm

Legion wrote:Fool, you got to drink their tea first and then bugger off! sooner or later (according to my brain) they'll run out of tea and therefore stop harrassing people. by drinking their tea, you're doing the public a service...

Actually there were a bunch of them in Liverpool Street the other day, giving out little gospels and loads of printed information. I went back and got loads extra of each (saying I had friends who would be really interested in this sort of thing) and ended up with about half their stock of leaflets and gospels. Once I got around the corner I threw it all away, thus:
a) preventing people who might be susceptible to their propaganda from seeing it and
b) increasing their printing/running costs for no direct benefit.

Phone salesmen, on the other hand, are easily dealt with (in the UK, at least). Just register your number with the TPS and if they call you, mention the £1000 fine and see how quick they get off the line. Or string them along, but end every sentence with the phrase "suck my balls" and see how long it takes for them to catch on.

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 5:52 pm

Hmm... I hope it was a paper-recykling bin that you threw that in.

Seems awful wastful otherwise, since you could have acctually put it to use then, for making toilet-paper and comic-books with. But alas...

Bouncelot · Post by **Bouncelot** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 6:08 pm

Is it safe for a Christian to step into this thread?

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 6:11 pm

Bouncelot wrote:Is it safe for a Christian to step into this thread?

Don't see why not, unless the thought of Christian propaganda going to waste really upsets you.

Professor Smooth · Post by **Professor Smooth** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 6:20 pm

Bouncelot wrote:Is it safe for a Christian to step into this thread?

If I had my way, it wouldn't be safe for a Christian to step into anything. Fortunately, I don't, so come on in.

Bouncelot · Post by **Bouncelot** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 8:39 pm

OK, what really annoys me at the moment (working, as I do, for a bank dealing with incoming post) is the stupidity of customers - not putting basic info like their sort code and account number so we know who they are, or which of their accounts they are talking about, and writing illegibly so we can't work out what it is they're asking us to do.

Scraplet · Post by **Scraplet** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 8:51 pm

Bouncelot wrote:OK, what really annoys me at the moment (working, as I do, for a bank dealing with incoming post) is the stupidity of customers - not putting basic info like their sort code and account number so we know who they are, or which of their accounts they are talking about, and writing illegibly so we can't work out what it is they're asking us to do.

Never underestimate the stupidity of the great British public. I am in about the fifth month of dealing with a guy who is now complaining that he never gets any feedback about his complaints. He only ever leaves the same phone number, which he never answers and apparently has no answering facilities.

I'll get another complaint in about 2 or 3 days..........

When I finally speak to him it will be to let him know that his complaint (fully investigated 5 months ago) is without any validity. Should be fun!