Non-religious pet peeves

[CHI83]

How whenever you argue with someone their best argument is "I'm right and your wrong! Argument over, I win!"

[Medusa]

Oh boy. You asked...

1 popping gum. It will stop me in my tracks mid sentence. I have been known to stare at poeple and comment just how much they love that gum of theirs. It's like a little switch gets turned on in my head and I go all she hulky.

2. Perpetual Right turn blinker for a mile only to turn left and turn off blinker RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME! I've also been known to honk poeple down. I pulled over one car. Got out. Poked my hand through their car and pointed toward the turn signal. Then proceeded to explain what it was used for.

3. Double negative questions. As in: You don't got no lanes do you? Yes. We don't got no lanes. This is usually done by horribly hispanic ghetto cholas (I am Hispanic. I get a pass to call them out on their shit)

4. Asking a direct question and getting a 2 page dissertation on the meaning of 'what do you mean by no exactly?'

[Ragnar]

Mine is the coverage of murdering maniacs by the media. 

For example Stephen Griffiths was found guilty of the murder of three women, and police believe that he may be responsible for three other unsolved murders. 

During police questioning, Griffiths dubbed himself "The Crossbow Cannibal".  Since then every newspaper headline and news bulletin about this case refers to him as "The Crossbow Cannibal", feeding this cretin's ego, sense of anti-hero status, and fulfilling the image he desires.

People who take small cars, designed to be town run abouts, and try to customise them, usually with badly fitting body kits, tinted windows, pearlescent paint, allow wheels which are more expensive than the car, suspension lowered to the point where the wheel arches rub the front tires every time the brake is applied.

They have also probably fitted an induction kit, and an exhaust so big that it looks like it could fire a water melon over The Gherkin*.  They have most likely done that without any thought that induction kits and big bore exhausts will only bring desired effects to cars designed to have high gas flow, by 1, having forced induction (ie turbo charged cars), and/or 2, having a straight through exhaust manifold, and 3, engine mapping to suit.

[roy1967]

Someone stopping on an on-ramp when needing to merge.      

[Medusa]

Someone stopping on an on-ramp when needing to merge.      

OMG I feel you. The purpose of the on ramp is to give you some safe room and time to 'ramp' up to freeway speed. I see people at complete stops waiting to get in. It drives me nuts!

[Tank]

Someone stopping on an on-ramp when needing to merge.      

Oh yes! The problem in the UK isn't quite as bad due to the different junction design, but it still pisses me of following somebody onto the motorway at a crawling pace!  

What got to me in the states were the combined on/off junctions! WTF!! Did the designer work for a repair shop or something?!!

[Sweetdeath]

Mine is the coverage of murdering maniacs by the media. 

For example Stephen Griffiths was found guilty of the murder of three women, and police believe that he may be responsible for three other unsolved murders. 

During police questioning, Griffiths dubbed himself "The Crossbow Cannibal".  Since then every newspaper headline and news bulletin about this case refers to him as "The Crossbow Cannibal", feeding this cretin's ego, sense of anti-hero status, and fulfilling the image he desires.

People who take small cars, designed to be town run abouts, and try to customise them, usually with badly fitting body kits, tinted windows, pearlescent paint, allow wheels which are more expensive than the car, suspension lowered to the point where the wheel arches rub the front tires every time the brake is applied.

They have also probably fitted an induction kit, and an exhaust so big that it looks like it could fire a water melon over The Gherkin*.  They have most likely done that without any thought that induction kits and big bore exhausts will only bring desired effects to cars designed to have high gas flow, by 1, having forced induction (ie turbo charged cars), and/or 2, having a straight through exhaust manifold, and 3, engine mapping to suit.

Yes, and yes.  Might I also add in when the media has shows like the Sapranos, and now Mob-wives, which glorifies mobster life.


No, they are freakin disgusting people who kill people for money and/or drugs. It pisses me off.

[Ragnar]

Yes, and yes.  Might I also add in when the media has shows like the Sapranos, and now Mob-wives, which glorifies mobster life.

No, they are freakin disgusting people who kill people for money and/or drugs. It pisses me off.

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That drives me mad too.  I can understand interest in organised crime, but I'd rather shows like that showed organised crime, and gangsters in their true light.

Probably the best TV portrayal of a gangster that I have seen in recent years is Tom Hardy as Freddie Jackson, in Martina Coles "The Take". 

[fester30]

Someone stopping on an on-ramp when needing to merge.      

Oh yes! The problem in the UK isn't quite as bad due to the different junction design, but it still pisses me of following somebody onto the motorway at a crawling pace!  

What got to me in the states were the combined on/off junctions! WTF!! Did the designer work for a repair shop or something?!!

In Arkansas we have these particularly messy highway ramps.  When you exit the highway, you have to merge onto a parallel access road while checking for traffic going both directions to make sure they yield as they are supposed to do and slowing down to non-highway speeds.  When entering the highway, you cross a lane of oncoming traffic to merge onto a ramp while making sure oncoming traffic does yield as they are supposed to, checking for gaps in highway traffic, and speeding up.

We call these "suicide ramps" here.  The guy who designed them, according to legend, died when he hit an oncoming car that failed to yield for him.  I cannot find anything on the internet to see if that's true, so I think it's probably urban legend that has spread due to the irony.

[Abletony]

I really hate it when people push in front of you in a queue. Really annoying, it's one of my pet peeves.

[Cecilie]

Luckily we don't have this problem where i live, but I've seen it on TV an such and that is people who say "like" at least once in every sentence. Drives me insane.

[Sweetdeath]

I really hate it when people push in front of you in a queue. Really annoying, it's one of my pet peeves.

I really hate being pushed in general.  Or when you cross the street, and someone bumps your shoulder hard.   

[MiiriChan]

People that chew with their mouth open and talk with a mouth full of food.  It just irks me to no end to see people do that!

[xSilverPhinx]

Having to sort to loads of diversions and tons of useless paper. I don't have all the energy in the world, you know! 

[Medusa]

People that chew with their mouth open and talk with a mouth full of food.  It just irks me to no end to see people do that!

I work in a very Asian city. Apparently it's in their culture to 'smack' their mouths when eating to show they like it. And when they don't like the food they won't do anything. It bugs me to no end when I take my break in the back room. And it's just me and Jimmy and he's just smack smack smacking away!