What are your top pet peeves?

[Guest Speed Racer]

I wasn't talking about you.

 

Doesn't mean it's not a pet peeve of mine.

[u2roolz]

People who manage to take a perfectly innocent if not innocuous post on an internet board and turn it into a political diatribe.

[theashtraysays]

I am growing weary of all of the phone-call pollsters this month. I forgot how irritating it is to track down the phone only to find it's some random somebody wanting to know who I'd vote for. When the do-not-call lists kicked in a couple years ago, that was a beautiful thing. Now it only comes back once or twice a year, but it's more annoying since you think those things were gone for good. You have to re-train yourself to let the machine get it.

[cryptique]

It irritates me that politicians are exempted from the do-not-call registry. When I say I don't want anyone outside of my family and friends calling my phone, I mean ANYONE.

[bttrbuffalo]

My 8 year old cries every time that Sarah McLaughlin commercial comes on and for that reason, I hate it too. It's disturbing enough that it's painful for an adult to watch, but it makes my son cry like a baby, which kills me even more.

 

 

 

There should totally be like a ten second delay before it comes on. Like a black screen with text that says we are about to show the the most fucked up comercial- ever.

[Nobody Girl]

Bars where the music is so loud you have to shout to have a conversation.

[cryptique]

Bars where the music is so loud you have to shout to have a conversation.

That goes for any other place, too. Except an actual concert.

[uncool2pillow]

BarsWilco shows where the music is so loud you have to shout to have a conversation.

[bjorn_skurj]

Wilco shows where the music is not loud enough to discourage pointless chit-chat. (See Hartford, Conn., 4/9/10)

[Sir Stewart]

cigarette butts just thrown on the ground. I smoke but will go out of my way to not throw the butt on the ground. Disgusting.

 

Thank you for being part of the .0001% of smokers who give a shit about that.

Nothing riles me up day to day like seeing butts just tossed on the ground. Fuck you if you do that.

[calvino]

Thank you for being part of the .0001% of smokers who give a shit about that.

Nothing riles me up day to day like seeing butts just tossed on the ground. Fuck you if you do that.

 

Once I was sitting in traffic on the Ryan and all of sudden a lit cigarette appeared on my lap - the idiot next to me obliviously tossed it out their window. When they do a clean up on the Lake Michigan beaches, the amount of butts is staggering.

[Moss]

Thank you for being part of the .0001% of smokers who give a shit about that.

Nothing riles me up day to day like seeing butts just tossed on the ground. Fuck you if you do that.

 

I have seen people just dump a full ashtray from their car. I guess they don't consider it garbage. It's like that old Steve Martin joke about how likes having a litter bag in his car so when it's full he can just toss it out the window.

[Analogman]

I have seen people just dump a full ashtray from their car. I guess they don't consider it garbage. It's like that old Steve Martin joke about how likes having a litter bag in his car so when it's full he can just toss it out the window.

 

Where I live, college kids do that all the time. I often wonder they learned that behavior. I pick up garbage everyday on my way down the street.

[Moss]

When I was about 14 my step mom saw some teenage girls throw garbage out of their car. She jumped in front of the car before they could drive off and made them pick it up. At the time I was pretty mortified but I was impressed. I don't have the guts to do something like that.

[Analogman]

When I was about 14 my step mom saw some teenage girls throw garbage out of their car. She jumped in front of the car before they could drive off and made them pick it up. At the time I was pretty mortified but I was impressed. I don't have the guts to do something like that.

 

It's a drag - but I can't stand to look at garbage lying around all over the place. The city goes after people who pile it up around their house, so that is something at least. There was a house down a ways from me a few years ago that had the beginnings of a land fill going on in their back yard. Some people don't give a shit, until they come home and finds rats in their kitchen. Then they give a shit.

[caliber66]

Thank you for being part of the .0001% of smokers who give a shit about that.

Nothing riles me up day to day like seeing butts just tossed on the ground. Fuck you if you do that.

This lady I know works at an environmental nonprofit which runs a program where you can report litterers online. She sends these reports to the Fairfax County police, who send a letter to the litterer, reminding them of the law and possible consequences if they are caught (since the police didn't witness the infraction themselves, there is no actual penalty). I have reported a lot of people who toss cigarette butts.

[Sir Stewart]

Once I was sitting in traffic on the Ryan and all of sudden a lit cigarette appeared on my lap - the idiot next to me obliviously tossed it out their window.

 

That happened to Ponch on CHiPs once. Burned his pants and everything. Maybe that's where my disdain for litterbug smokers started.

[Sir Stewart]

• the way iTunes is always asking you to update, sometimes TWICE IN ONE DAY

Preach on, sister.

 

I'll add the 30+ minutes of "Updating iTunes library" that follows every update.

[Moss]

I'll add the 30+ minutes of "Updating iTunes library" that follows every update.

 

 

I switched to a Sansa and wiped Itunes from my computer because the constant updating was driving me nuts. My daughter just won an Ipod so I suppose I'm going to have to deal with that again.

[ih8music]

GPs who can't identify scabies. Make that 3 GPs who missed it. After carrying around this "poison oak" for months, I've successfully infected my entire family. Good job, guys (and gals).

[tinnitus photography]

Which comes first, being an asshole or living in Boston?

 

well i moved there.

 

 

you decide.

[cryptique]

Any website that forcibly resizes my browser window.

[Wilco Worshipper]

Thank you for being part of the .0001% of smokers who give a shit about that.

Nothing riles me up day to day like seeing butts just tossed on the ground.

 

Ditto.

 

Where I work I swear I am the ONLY ONE who does NOT smoke. Not only do they all go outside 1000 times per shift but they throw their nastiness all around. Sorry, it's disgusting and I can't stand it. When the snow melted away this year...oh my Lord!!! Blech!!!

 

But again, thank you, to those who throw them away!

[bigshoulders]

Not sure if it's been mentioned in the previous pages but I see red when I hear people wearing flip-flops at work. I'd rather they go around barefoot than to hear that tell-tale flip-flop sound.

 

It's an office, not the f*cking beach.

[Guest Speed Racer]

It's an office, not the f*cking beach.

 

I don't care either way, but incidentally, I was the only person not wearing shorts and flip flops yesterday on a staff of 12.

 

Pet peeve: when people abbreviate refridgerator as "frig" instead of "fridge."