****THE OFFICIAL FRIDAY SILLINESS THREAD****(Salute to Pet Peeves)

Pet Peeves ^

[Lucky9teen]

A pet peeve (or pet hate) is a minor annoyance that can instill great frustration in an individual.

 

The term originated from the word 'peeve.' A 'peeve,' meaning something that is particularly irritating or annoying, is a relatively recent word. Its first printed usage was in 1911. The term is a back formation from a 14th-century word: 'peevish,' meaning ornery or ill-tempered.

 

Pet peeves involve complaints about specific behaviors, rather than general complaining. Pet peeves often involve specific behaviors of someone close such as a spouse or significant other.  These behaviors may include those of disrespect, those involving manners, personal hygiene, relationships, and family issues. 

 

Here are some of my Pet Peeves (in no particular order):

• Drivers who refuse to use their turn signals.

• Drivers who take forever to make a turn.

• Drivers who drive under the speed limit, in the fast lane.

• Drivers who think the carpool lane is the fast lane

• Drivers who get annoyed and tailgate you when you are going 10 over the speed limit in the carpool or fast lane.

• Construction being done during rush hour traffic, where they have both lanes going toward work narrowed to one and the opposite direction, which has no traffic, open to 2 lanes.

• Parents who let their children run amuck, especially in the store.

• Parents who don't teach their children manners.

• Parents who dress their little toddlers like teenagers, especially little girls.

• Girls who wear tight clothing when they shouldn't.

• Pants or shorts that say things on the butt.

• Boys who wear their pants hanging below the waistline, so you can see their underwear.

• Girls who wear the hip hugger jeans, so you can see their bare hips above the waistline.

• The general conception that thin is in and voluptuous is not.

• Co-workers who constantly have to gossip about everyone and generally don't have anything nice to say.

• Co-workers who mess with your computer settings or things on your desk.

• Co-workers you have to remind again and again to do something.

• People who staple in the middle of the page or who staple pages together crooked.

• Messy offices or desks where no one can find anything.

• Roommates or significant others who don't pick up after themselves.

• People who cuss a lot, like every other word, especially in front of children.

• A president who claims to be fighting the war on terror, but refuses to secure our own countries borders.

• Democrats and Liberals, the logic they use and the way they think!!!!

• Illegal Immigrants and how our government caters to them more than their own legal citizens.

• Installing a toilet paper or a paper towel roll so that the tissue unwraps from the under side of the roll

• Using the toilet paper down to the last ten squares without fetching a new roll or leaving the empty roll

• Not crunching or squishing an empty water or milk gallon container before throwing it in the trash.

• People who leave a container of milk in the fridge, when there isn't but one sip left, if that.

• Paying for 200 channels on cable TV, and not finding ANYTHING worth watching.

• Changing the TV channel without asking when anyone is clearly watching

• Standing in my line of sight to the TV during one of my favorite shows

• Finding a TV remote in the car or anywhere else where it couldn't possibly be used

• Calling in to Customer Service for technical help with something and getting the employee who doesn't want to do his job, so he tells you it can't be fixed.  So you call back in and talk to someone else and sure enough, they fix the problem without any hassle.

• Self-Righteous and judgemental people.

• Those folks oblivious to everyone around them who stand or walk slowly in the way of others.

• Being put on the speakerphone without warning.

• Allowing a phone cord or hair dryer cord to become hopelessly tangled.

• Retail clerks that ignore the live customer to help one that interrupts via phone.

• People who give you a guilt trip and/or make nasty comments when they are displeased.

 

"I don't have pet peeves, I have whole kennels of irritation"
~ Whoopi Goldberg

 

[Clam Digger]

IOTP!

[StarCMC]

LOL!

[Enosh]

I didn't eat the gar, he almost ate me.

BTW, here's a two-footer filthball I got the other day. -> Link

[unspun]

HATE, HATE, HATE THE ALIENS

[Clam Digger]

Ugh. Fryable with a ton of flour, cornmeal and spices,but not much better than eating a tire.

My buddy caught a 325 lb tuna the other day, we did raw tuna (at the dock, damn good) and tuna steaks, and I smoked a bunch to freeze it. I owe him a couple bushels of steamers for sure!

[Enosh]

"not much better than eating a tire."

Exactly. Bloody catfish aren't worth looking at unless your belt has run out of holes and your pants are falling down. Unnngh.

Trout, on the other hand, is down right kissable straight from the river. :)

[Clam Digger]

Too small, i like real smoked salmon, but catching atlantic salmon is good too.

[MeekMom]

re: 51
Hey, those are Monty Python Pepper Pots!

[MotleyGirl70]

Roommates or significant others who don't pick up after themselves.

Yes!!! I think people like that do it intentionally just to piss other people off. (This also applies to friends and family.) I can't stand slobs and people who don't pick up after themselves. It's a sign of laziness.

Self-Righteous and judgemental people.

Yes. Putting people down gives others a sense of empowerment. All it does is shows their own insecurities by putting other people down.

Co-workers who constantly have to gossip about everyone and generally don't have anything nice to say.

Stay away from catty women in the work place. Women can be evil in the work place.

[Enosh]

"Too small..."

Ah... rule of pack fishin': All catch to be eaten on the spot. Humping 100 lbs of tuna back to camp can make bears and such take unwanted interest in you along the way. ;)

[Maximus of Texas]

"Women can be evil in the work place"

Or in the Oval Office.

[Nightshift]

pinged

[listenhillary]

I hate people who help themselves to your beer stash and don’t ask first. Depends on the relationship I guess.

[MonicaG]

A middle aged woman had a heart attack and was taken to the hospital. While on the operating table, she had a near-death experience. Seeing God, she asked,” Is my time up?”

God said, “No, you have another 43 years, 2 months and 8 days to live.”

Upon recovery, the woman decided to stay in the hospital and have a face-lift, brow lift, lip enhancement, boob job, liposuction, and a tummy tuck.

After her last operation, she was released from the hospital. While crossing the street on her way home, she was hit and killed by a car.

Arriving in front of God, she demanded, “I thought you said I had another 40 years? Why didn’t you pull me out of the path of the car?”

God replied,

“Girrrlllllll, I didn’t even recognize you.”

[alarm rider]

NOW JUST WHERE DID YOU READ INTO MY POST THAT I:

“Alarm Rider is one of those a-holes that likes to harass cyclists on THEIR roads.”

Well, where Einstein?

Typical of the snotty nature of “cyclists”, AKA alleged adults that think they actually own roads that are not built, meant or are functional for “cyclists” who are in fact, a hazard no matter where they go short of TRAILS that are meant for them.

This was a PET PEEVE thread. Try to get the concept.

[Darksheare]

Idiot trap, it seems to fit that intersection.
(Guy on cellphone, sitting at light, talking away. Finally says, once he has a crowd standing around his vehicle, “I’m waiting for the light to change!” It’s a blinking red on that side...)

[Big Giant Head]

My traffic pet peeve is those that don’t respect construction zone speed limits. It says 40 mph, I do 40 mph. There is highway construction near that I drive through on my way to work, and I do this every day. I obey the limits, and I build up a string of cars behind my bumper. There are always workers wandering right up to and into the lane of traffic and ya gotta watch out for them.

THEN, when I get out of the construction area, I immediately speed up as fast as possible to two or three mph over the highway speed limit. EVERY car behind me will pass, even if they have to totally blow through the safe speed for the conditions.

When heading into town through the construction zone, the 40 mph drops to 35, and I swing into the right lane as soon as it opens so the morons can hit 55 to get around me to get to the red light at the intersection ahead of me. I then wave as I turn right at the light.

There is a word that describes this moronic behavior:

Infrontitis- The need to pass regardless the safety or conditions merely because Big Giant Head is in front of them.

[Salem]

LOL!!  

[LongElegantLegs]

Anybody who can look me in the eye without stretching is okay ;) And McDonald’s was my idea...They don’t let kids into bars, it seems.

[BenLurkin]