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A “pet peeve” is an action/habit/thing that really annoys the heck out of you. In other words, a pet peeve is something that you really hate. I am curious as to what annoys dotTechies – what is your pet peeve?
Since it is impossible to quantify pet peeves into a poll, this Ask dotTechies is a bit different. There is no poll for you to vote on what is your pet peeve. Rather, please share your pet peeve with everyone by posting a comment below.
To get us started, I will share my pet peeve. I actually have two, both related to driving:
- I absolutely hate it when people turn/change lanes without using their car’s indicator/blinker. Not only is it very annoying (how freaking hard is it to move your hand five inches to turn on the indicator), but it is very dangerous also – especially when changing lanes on a highway. I can’t count how many times I have almost got into an accident because some idiot decides he or she wants to change a lane but doesn’t want to use the indicator to tell everyone else about it.
- It annoys the heck out of me when someone cuts in front of me while driving, then slows down (for no apparent reason; I am not talking about slowing down when a car in front of that car slows down). I mean, if you want to cut in front of me, fine go ahead. However, why the **** would you cut in front of me if you are just going to slow down (and force me to slow down with you)? Just stay in your **** lane if you plan on slowing down, or cut behind me instead of in front of me.
(No, I don’t have road rage issues… I think =P).
My pet peeve at the moment is firefox, when you click a link and it tells you the page is unavailable, you click it again and whoo hoo it opens, is this me, or do others have this problem ?
My pet peeve is when websites use linkbaits.
/keeping my real life separate from my online life
Pet Peeve is people dragging their feet when they walk. Dammit, pick them up and while you are at it, pull up your slacks so your butt crack doesn’t show. I don’t want to see it.
There, I feel better.
My pet perves are…
-when 4freeOnInternet pissed me off
-when ha3kers on my favorite games piss me off by using aimbots and “i see you through walls” hacks
-when people are messing with me during the games…
-and when people makes insults on those games and I get head shot pwned… -_-”
Mehh… doesn’t happen much, very rarely actually, but I don’t like when people insult me or make fun of me. I sometimes take it too seriously… -_-”
Uhm… I think some people already know that, especially Ashraf… -_-”"
~Joji~
Drivers on cell phones.
The Nigerian Spam Scam crowd. A total waste of the world’s bandwidth.
mupton
People who use food stamps to purchase Crap food when I am busting my Butt to stay on a budget.
Kids parents that do not teach there children how to do anything productive!
I’m with you on #1 Ashraf. People that don’t signal their turns and lane changes really tick me off.
My #2 peeve has to be that GOTD forces you to install the same day that you download. I much appreciate the giveaways, but sometimes there’s just too much going on to get them installed the same day, especially since I always take precautions (system restore points, registry backups, etc.) prior to installing ANY new software. And sometimes, I just plain forget to install them, and then I’m disappointed the next day or whenever I realize I missed the window (hey — I’m busy and I’m old — what else can I say?).
BTW, I greatly value your reviews of the GOTD downloads. I don’t have time to test a lot of software that might be useful or just nice to have, and with almost no exceptions, I won’t download it if you don’t give it at least one thumbs up!
@Michael N Hart: It must be the gecko engine — I use Orca, which runs on the gecko (mozilla) engine, and this happens to me all too often.
Hi Ashraf,
My biggest pet peeve is guys who brag about themselves.
I live in Southeast Asia and it seems almost every one of the expats I meet here cannot get through a spoken paragraph without patting themselves on the back, or reminiscing about how great they are or used to be.
Brits seem to be the worst, although Americans and Australians are right up on top of the list too. I can understand mentioning what you used to do for work, but why not just be brief and leave out all the braggadocio?
There certainly is something to be said for modesty!
Jeeem
People who seem to think the words then, and than are interchangeable ………. it drives me nuts!
(if English isn’t your native tongue, that’s different)
Do they know what they’re saying when they make a statement like…… “I’d rather watch a movie then shoot myself in the foot”.
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I’m driving on the freeway, using cruise control to maintain the speed limit. I’m in the left lane, and see someone coming up behind me moving faster than I am, so (using my blinker so Ashraf doesn’t get upset) I pull over into the right lane to let them pass. There is a slower moving vehicle in front of me now, but it’s ok, I’ll be able to get back in the left lane when this faster moving car passes me…………. but as they are passing me, they slow down so I’m now boxed in. Why do people do this?? Better yet, why do I continue to get out of the way so they can do it to me?
Driving – those “grinders” who come up and stay on your rear bumper when you’re in the outer lane and doing at least the speed limit. I like to flip on my lights during the day – the tail lights look like I’m braking!
Endless mail offers from service providers to “bundle” my internet/phone/TV. These are from the same providers I’ve ignored for years…
Junk mail. I have to save it all to put in the recycling bin every week. What a waste, especially around election time.
My “peeves” have lead me to the following conclusions:
1) Honking your horn at lousy drivers will not make them better drivers.
2) Stupid people just do not know that they are stupid.
From those two conclusions you may envision exactly what peeves me the most.
@tejas: Know what you mean. Also, the pervasive use of “ones”, as in “the ones over there?”, instead of regular demonstratives – these, that, those, this.
My pet peeves are mostly realted to miss information…like Mac vs. PC, THE MAC IS A PC!
Pardon me while I whine in an unseemly manner just for a moment…
What bugs me as a researcher and an entrepreneur is having to get money from people who wouldn’t have invented what I do, don’t really understand it, couldn’t carry through the work I’m doing to make it manifest, yet think they are superior to me solely because (often through no work of their own) they have money.
I mean, with no more than access to their money, I am committing to make them more money, and they’ve already committed to risk it in some way — so could they please just evaluate the risk, without trying to make me and my people feel small? This sort of thing might fly with first time entrepreneurs under 30, but I have a good record and I’m 50 now — if they think somehow this makes them look smart, more cautious, or it’s just how they’re supposed to act…well, it’s obvious why they’re investing instead of doing something cool.
Oh, and writing patents. Wedging my brain into the narrow band required for writing patent documents make my head hurt (and it’s most of what I’m doing this month…or procrastinating from…)
Oh, and procrastinators. Procrastinators bug me, *especially* if they’re me…! :)
*thanks I feel better now…*
Clueless bit***s yapping on a cell phone while operating SUV’s that are entirely too large for them,cutting me off, presumably on their way to the mall to renew their undeserved drivers licenses-Yeah,they got that license there, (not motor vehicle)and the renewal is half off today.I’m from Jersey-let me tell you about road rage!
@David Roper: Sorry… haha. Bad habit
Whenever I perceive the sound of two pieces of styrofoam rubbed against each other, or that anything has any physical interaction with a styrofoam and produce sound, I want to kill someone!!!
This is extremely inconvenient for me, unfortunately, as now most of the mail packages come with at least some cubic of styrofoam with it… Which explained why I am always pissed off when receiving mail order!
My pet peeves are people who are hypocrites, and reality-show starlets (like Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian) who will do and say anything (in the absence of values) to become famous and rich.
We used to be able to post images (screenshots) in this forum and can’t now.
You don’t review every GOTD offer.
When I learn how to use a program, it’s updated.
@GaryKC: We can post things in the forums. But we’ve never been able to put them in the comments.
@Michael N Hart: Firefox 3.6.3 with Vista… I have had no problems.
If it persists,… you can always do a Download/replace/repair & see if that fixes it.
(OR:) Save your bookmarks, then you can Remove it (all, don’t save your preferences.) & re-install. That might help/Fix it.
After typing in a sentence, find the Caps lock button is ON.
After clicking on SEND after typing a long letter, the letter vanishes in an envelope and does not get sent!
@chuck: My pet peeve is misogynists who feel it is somehow acceptable to call women “b****es”, irrespective of their petty irritations.