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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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1. Anyone who doesn’t drive like me. (That covers Super Ashraf’s road rage pet peeves and everyone else’s.)
2. A woman who acts like a womanoid, instead of a woman. (I might get in trouble here, but we’ll see.)
3. People who try to impress me about themselves, their accomplishments, or their possessions. (“Well, I’m going surfing in Peru for 8 days, and when I get back, I’m going to fly my plane.”)
4. People who try to impress me with their intelligence, when they don’t have any.
5. Men who walk in public with a swagger, like they’re the head rooster in the hen house. (“I got the bod, I got the looks, I got it all!”)
I’ll sign off now, and will continue at a later time. I reside in Texas, in case anyone is wondering about my literary style.
Take care and be well,
Joe
@Ashraf: Well, I don’t particularly enjoy PCs either. I just think that arrogant apple fanboys need good reasoning behind their theories about macs.
@Dario: YEH! I agree! :)
1- People who pronounce the word “tour” to sound like “tore”. Just cause they heard 1 dummy on tv say it that way. It’s “two-er”, people! Tour= “two-er”! You’ll sound cooler if you say it right, NOT by parroting some doof.
2-People on GOTD comments who say “that said” or similar (“having said that” etc) just cause Ashraf says it & they think it sounds cool. Cause Ashraf is cool. It’s Ashraf’s thang, don’t be a copy-cat. :)
3-That stupid Stickr thing on websites. It gets in the way so much I wanna judo-chop it, ya know? Ever try to copy a few words from a site with Stickr on it? Major argh! the dang thing jumps in right where you needed to click!
4- On my desktop the right click menu is extremely slow to respond a lot of the time. That just is soooo irritating! Like it’s maybe gotta do something else more important than what I ask it to do. Does it when nothing else is running even. And no, I don’t have a huge list in right click menu. It’s just s-l-o-w. Like it’s whining that I’m asking too much of it. lol:)
5- Open source software that ya have to download more than file to get. Then figure out how to install it all correctly & have to read confusing “read me” files. If a software can’t be installed with only 1 file, nowdays I usually just won’t even try it at all. Cause not only is it frustrating, but hey, if they can’t put it all in one file, they probably don’t have a very good software there anyway. Amatuerish. It’s like buying shoes that you have to assemble at home.
I can only think of a few real fast here, so I’ll be back to add more. :) I’m sure I have a LOT more. lol :) Hey, Ashraf, thanks for asking! :)
@ everybody- Yeh! I truly honestly agree! Just reading them all made me feel so much better! Feels so great just to express it all, doesn’t it? :)
@Coldmile: Good eye mite!
I’m not prejudiced against Aussies. As a matter of fact, I much prefer them over American’s, of which I am a member.
Anyone I meet for the first time, I sum up. Everybody does that. I don’t particularly care where they’re from, just as long as I can understand them (one of my better friends, as a matter of fact, is a Scot with a stutter).
This forum is about Pet Peeves, and that’s precisely what I wrote about. I knew, from the moment I plugged in different nationalities, someone like you would get their fur ruffled.
A bit thin skinned aren’t ya mate?
Truth be told, I was only telling the facts from my perspective and experiences. Every Aussie I’ve met, including ones I would call my friends, are braggarts from the word go.
But, not as bad as Limey’s from my vantage point.
Americans? Oh god. Educational misfits. Illiterate morons.
I’m a writer. I’ve been freelancing for years and I just hate it when the English language is butchered. Hey, slang is slang, but butchering the language when you know better? Well, it’s a pet peeve of mine.
So, stop your damn whining and try and look at both sides of an equation before you start running your mouth.
-Jeeem-
@Skye-hook:#2… is not “Ashraf’s thang”. People have used that expression long before he was even born. ;)
I’m a bit behind and while going through the past few days feeds from dotTech I of course came across the feed about the CapsLock Warning; nice little program, by the way.
But it churned up one of my pet peeves. Now I understand the reason for having to register on dotTech to obtain CapsLock Warning, but why is it that sooner or later everyone want you to register on their site? I can’t buy a piece of hardware any more and register that piece of hardware without registering on their site. I have to come up with a new username and password and of course record that somewhere. I honestly can’t believe that I have over a hundred unique logins documented between my three password managers.
And that brings up another pet peeve; why is it when you register on a site that has a forum associated with it that you are not automatically registered on the forum. But no, you have to create yet another login to access their forum, and if it’s for a piece of software the login you created for the particular site doesn’t do you much good because more and more vendors are requiring you to use their forums to voice concerns, yet when you register on their site they do not automatically register you on their forum or any other sites that may be associated with their particular site.
So while I moan every time I have to take the time to create a new unique login for a particular site I get tight when I have to create yet another unique login for each and every site associated with that particular site.
Sorry Ashraf, or if I ruffled any ones feathers, but that’s the way I feel about it.
Just ran across one of my pet peeves and remembered this thread.
Software that brings up IE :( instead of my default browser Firefox :) when you link to the web through their software for whatever reason.
Who the he11 do developers think they are forcing IE on me?
I’LL decide what browser I want to use by setting the default and YOU honor my choice by using whatever I have my default set at!!
I’m headed over right now to the Advice Corner to ask if anyone knows of a way to force the use of a certain browser.
I’ve got other pet peeves, but it’ll have to wait till I have more time.
Taz
@Taz: I got bad news and good news…that bad news is that there isnt any proper way to fix that problem.
Normally programs ask Windows to open up a web page for them and then Windows uses your default browser. The problem is that these programs don’t ask Windows, they ask IE its self to open it up. So the only way to fix it would be to replace IE’s executable with a program that launches firefox.
1. “Buy one (or 2, etc.), get one free.” It’s a marketing gimmick and you’re going to pay for it one way or another. If it’s a service or a product, it’s being paid for with profits and profits come from customers.
@Skye-hook: Are you saying you have a problem with open source software? Open source software is a lot better than your proprietary software where the user has no control.
@Caleb: Not true for normal users, only true for geeks :D
My short complaint of the day,,, I hate the way that GAOTD cherry-picks the posts. Several times (well, a couple or three I remember), GAOTD didn’t allow posts warning people about trojans in the software of the day. I’m not the brightest bulb in the drawer, but its easy to recognize covert activities.
Thanks,
Mansion Trash
@JonE: You should only have to register with dotTech once; the forum and the blog share logins so if you register for one you are registered for the other automatically and with the same name.
Oh and no offense taken =).
(I personally don’t like having to register to download something either, but it is one of the necessary evils to try to build-up participation for dotTech; more participation means dotTech gets more recognition, which results in dotTech being able to bring you better goodies.)
@51 (Dario) & 69 (JonE): couldn’t agree more!
@Samuel: Well, having read many full license agreements, I think that open source is a ton better than proprietary.
@Caleb: Debatible.
@Samuel: I disagree.
Another pet peeve of mine is when many GOTD community members don’t read the download/installation instructions carefully, and then they blame any “glitches” or “errors” on the software program, developer, and/or GOTD.
People (especially grown-ups) should know better than to do that.
Okay, I’ll get off my high horse for now – till later, all….. :) LOL!
Inas
@Skye-hook: #1- AMEN!!! It’s pronounced “two-er”! Most the TV dummies where I live say “tore” and it drives me up a wall! I want to go to their studio and just start slapping the morons!
To continue on that thought line, adults that won’t pronounce words correctly tick me off.
I know a guy that pronounces ambulance as “am-blee-ance” and breakfast as “breh-fass.” Come on, he’s almost 50 yrs old! Isn’t that long enough to learn how to talk? (no, he doesn’t have any kind of handicap that affects his speech)
@Inas:
Oh, fiddlesticks! Since when did grown-ups ever post on GOTD?
Yah boo and sucks.
@MikeR: You got me there! LOL!
phoenix rising-Actually I don’t hate women,but this is a case of “if the shoe fits”-let me guess-you’re about five foot three and drive a Lincoln Navigator,and visit the mall about twice a week,talking on your cell phone all the way there!Almost had me for a moment as my Greek is a little rusty.
Another 2- I HATE how it often saves pages with a strange title that doesn’t clue u in on what the page really is, when I save a webpage using File & “save as” at top leftof Firefox. Sometimes it’s just a number, or often every single page of a many-paged site has the same exact title, so I have to number them myself & change that later to read it right. Crazy Browser never did that. But I love Firefox, so I’m stuck with that.
I also really HATE that I keep being forced to join/sign up with every site on the net! Many places keep making me sign up with a site just to get a service that should be totally no-strings attached. Like I even had to sign up at Twitter, which I hate. To get temporary tech support for a free software. Etc etc. No way am I going to be able to keep track of all those, & many you can’t later cancel without a BIG DEAL. Twitters’ new stupid side thing of TweetMeme won’t let me quit without cancelling Twitter, & if I cancel Twitter, they will never let me join again with my Skye-hook online name. Ok, that’s it for now.
Thanks for providing a vent for us, Ashraf. :)