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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).
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-When people change lanes without signaling.
-When people drive way to fast (specially motorcycles).
-When people choose to drive very loud vehicles just to get attention (and actually spread a wave of annoyance)
-When people put their annoying music on their mp3 / cellphone speaker so that everyone can ‘enjoy’ it too.
-When people wear those baggy jeans that are about to fall off and you have to pull up every 10 steps.
-When people stop in the middle of a crowded street to chat with their friends and everyone has to walk around them.
-When people bring young children to scary movies.
-When parents give red bull to their 6 year old daughter or son.
-When people start walking without looking where they are going.
-When other drives don’t want to let you change lanes after signaling.
-When people want to sell me crap I don’t need.
-When I click to open an new window in FireFox and it takes at least 10 seconds.
-When I press the volume button on my keyboard and it takes at least 10 seconds to actually change the volume and display the volume bar (even when the computer is not doing anything and has no other applications open, and it happens on XP, Vista and Win7 64bit (MS IntelliType).
-When it takes even a second for my Windows Mobile phone to respond to my input (I still don’t want an iPhone even because of this!)
-When people act like sheep and have no will or opinion of their own.
@Liam K: Arachnophobia is specifically a fear of spiders (arachnids).
The fear of insects is Entomophobia.
1. When a website re-sizes your browser window.
2. When occasionally my wireless router stops working due to a DNS conflict.
Horizontal scroll bars on web sites.
@Joji:
However. . . there’s only one Joji!
Good to see you again here.
(And all the other Mikes, too.)
People who constantly complain about Microsoft and its Operating Systems.
If it hadn’t been for Microsoft, I wouldn’t be able to sit here now and wr
@MikeR: Testify Brother!
My pet peeve is arrogant Mac users who think Macs are better just because they’re better. They most certainly are not better, and I think that Mac users should have to have a good reason for why they think Macs are better.
@Caleb: You have touched a nerve. I too hate that. I hate it very much. I especially get ticked off at Apple fanboys who try to convince me that Macs and PCs (sorry Samuel – just using the proper jargon) cost the same. No way in cyber-hell do Macs and PCs cost the same; you just can’t convince me that there is no “Mac tax”.
@Ashraf: correct or not it is our job to correct the masses!
@Samuel: ‘Tis may be true but Mac vs PC rolls off the tongue a lot better than Mac vs Windows =P.
@Ashraf: Ah, but to those Apple Fanboys (and microsoft ones too) its Apple vs. Microsoft!
Now you’ve got me really thinking…
Another Pet Peeve of mine is the way the younger generation speaks.
They sound like a bunch of morons.
Grammar doesn’t even have a place in their statements anymore, and you really can’t call it “slang,” since it’s not generated from any sort of socio-cultural dialect, so much as it’s just a terrible lack of education.
Don’t believe me? Go take a gander at Yahoo “Answers” and pay special attention to the “Questions” generated from the U.S., U.K., and Australia – in that order (see the little flags at the bottom of the question to see where the question originated).
Jeeem
Oh, and regarding my previous pet-peeve about braggart expats? Scots are right up there on the list too.
And yet another…
Those scrolling pieces of crap on the bottom of the television screen.
Who in their right minds thought of that? Nowadays you can hardly see the damn screen anymore for all the scrolling detritus.
I live in Thailand but cannot read Thai. So, I’m watching the news and on comes a news bulletin from CNN. On the bottom of the screen is a caption of what is happening, and it’s written in English, but I can’t read it because of all the scrolling Thai crap on the bottom of the screen…including SMS messages!
WTF? Why put freaking SMS messages on the screen? Who gives a rat’s ass about what morons are texting? Wasting their money sending SMS messages to the TV station so they’ll put it on their screen in real-time…not so anyone else can read it…I don’t think anybody really cares. But so the moronic idiot texting can see his or her own SMS!
Boy…now you’ve really got me going.
Oh, btw, I have written to the TV channels who add the scrolling crap and of course none of them e-mail me back. So, I sent a really crafty, insulting SMS into their stations to prove a point, and only one out of five of them censored it out.
That further proves my point…even the people in the television studio don’t read that crap!
-Jeeem-
I’m an Aussie who is usually reserved but i would like to be heard considering Ashraf started the ball rolling and JA (comment 10)made a comment about Aussies which i think is East against West motivated and maybe he dosen’t like the infidels ?
Australia is part Asia Pacific as is South East Asia and when are you going to get off being racist and enforcing your religion ?
THIS IS MY PET PEEVE FOR TODAY AND I THINK I’M BEING FAIR,WE MAY ALL LOOK THE SAME BUT WE ARE NOT !!
@MikeR: Ya, a guy, named “Mike” who I mentioned in my last comment doesn’t seem to like me… I don’t know why… :(
~Joji~
@MikeR:
re #56, now continued after recovering from Windows BSD:
ite this justified praise.
PS: there ya go, Samuel!
@MikeR: Eh, you can get BSOD (or what ever they are called) on Macs too, it’s just that since Apple as control over the hardware they don’t have to reley on crapy drivers (which are the most common cause of BSOD).
My pet peeve is people with pet peeves; especially those perfect people that complain about everything that those of us that are imperfect do and then five minutes later they are doing the exact thing they complained about someone else doing five minutes earlier.
@JonE:
Dead right!
Ashraf’s just hurtled past on the freeway and then pulled in ahead of me and slowed to a crawl because he’s ranting into his hands-free about people who overtake others and then pull in and slow to a crawl whilst ranting into their hands-free about people who overtake others and then
Seem to have gotten into an endless loop here.
@ Samuel: that’s about the most reassuring thing I’ve read on this comment thread. Macs are also fallible. Are you sure though? I used to know someone who owned a Mac and he was always superior to me. Well, that’s what he said, anyway.
@Jim Anderson: HEY! (in a friendly manner…or not)
@MikeR: They can and do my friend.
cellphone contracts. comcast.
My pet peeve is anything that has a label stuck on it that says “No user-serviceable parts inside.” That is like a red rag to bull to me and I usually open it just to see exactly what really is in there. Why can’t people just put normal screws or, even better, easy-to-open plastic clips just so that we can have a quick look. I’ll be the judge of whether I’m able to service it or not matey, if you can build it I can repair it, usually.
I am Back Again.
This one really pissed me off. Today a co-worker stole my work and claim it as his own. Luckly I had the proof that it was mine (backups and different versions). He got fired and I was very happy then, but for that three to four hours that I had to prove myself very angering.