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What are everyone's pet peeves .. i know this is the similar to the i hate it when ... thread, but theres a difference ...

so ill start

- when someone has a single hair on their back .. i always pick it off .. whether i know them or not ... so if someone comes up to you at a competition and pulls hair off your back, it might just be me ...

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I am the guy all my friends to when they have computer problems, and i JUST HATE IT when they say things like this:


[22:05:26] Me: what type of cable did you use? a lil rectangle one, or a big one with lots of pins?
[22:05:43] friend: from the scanner to what?
[22:05:49] Me: your computer
...
[22:10:44] Me: it should have come with some software
[22:10:53] Me: like, a CD or something
[22:10:57] Me: have you installed that?
[22:11:09] friend: yea
[22:11:15] Me: ok
[22:11:38] friend: well i dunno this thing poped up
[22:11:41] friend: and i dunno what to do with it
[22:11:45] Me: oh
[22:11:49] Me: well what is "this thing"
[22:11:51] Me: and what does it say?
[22:12:00] friend: the found new hardware thing
[22:12:15] Me: ok
[22:12:21] Me: well, just let winblowz do its thing
[22:12:42] friend: but itd msking me choosing something but idunno what to choose
[22:12:52] Me: well, what does it say?
[22:13:08] friend: a lot of stuff
[22:13:13] friend: look at it
[22:13:24] Me: like what?
[22:13:36] Me: (how am i looking?)
[22:13:40] friend: haha i dunno
[22:13:48] friend: how do u look at it
[22:13:51] friend: like u did last time
[22:13:55] friend: would it show
[22:14:02] friend: you u did what u did last time
[22:14:08] Me: oh, ya
[22:14:08] Me: ok
(I proceded to use vnc to finish the installation for her)

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Another thing I hate is windows. Also people who think its better than Linux. One of my programming minnions was trying to tell me how much better notepad was then vim. Need I say anymore?

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My pet peeves are people who dont appreciate Windows and its greatness and people who like to post in every thread of a particular Forum in a matter of seconds or minutes....

My real pet peeves are people that don't follow rules and people that have no common sense.

:)

[EDIT]: TAs that can't speak english.

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Kyle hit the head right on the nail. The PC is the greatest thing that came to Windows.


My pet peeve is when you IM somebody and they dont answer but you know they're actually there.

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its not my fault i have no life... *bursts in to tears*
But, really, if you see all this, you must be doing just as much posting as i have ;)

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Wow...Mike I adore you...

My pet peeve is favoritism blinding good judgment such as when casting a theatre piece or choosing directors for the student directed plays' night.

Also, people that join robotics just because it will look good on a college ap...only to quit the team 2 months later (after they got accepted to the program they were going after)

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My pet peeve is people who loudly express their opinions without ever having thought about it, and then insisting that they are absolutely right, and everyone else is wrong.

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Seconded, Jeff.

Also, I have come to hate the noises that people make when they eat. Which is not to say that I don't make the exact same noises, but they just don't annoy me as much.

People who want to talk when I just want some peace and quiet.

Terrible teachers, terrible students, people who irrationally hate things (except when I do it, myself) and people who think reading is uncool (because it's the coolest thing since The Ramones, honestly).

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coconuts......ew.......

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... reality TV shows, and how the boy/girl always picks the person that pretty much all of America doesn't want them to.

(I just got bored and watched 'Average Joe' - normally I don't watch TV - and was appalled at this girl turning down someone who is smart, funny, and has a great sense of humor to someone who has the personality of a pet rock.)

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People who talk on their cell phones in the stalls in public bathrooms. First of all, it's disgusting, since there are lots of germs in there (think people, someone just handled that same door handle leaving the stall after completing their business that you just handled to lock the door, and now you're going to hold the phone up to your mouth? Talk about a potty mouth...). And second, it's just rude. Rude, rude, rude. I need to get a miniature tape recorder and record some really loud "bad time in the bathroom" noises (groans, moans, phltttt type noises, I'm sure you can find some on the Net...) and play it the next time I hear someone chatting away while doing what you don't normally talk about in polite company...

Heidi

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now excuse me, I have an important phone call to make, I think I'll head for the can...

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:confused: Am I the only one who has never heard someone talking on their cell in a bathroom??

My pet peeve is when people say, "Oh man, that's so gay." "You really think that? You're gay." I hate that - homosexuality isn't stupid ... why use the word "gay" as a synonym for such? (if you want me to go more into detail as to why I hate it, PM me and I'll rant to you ;)) That and intelligent people who just act stupid for attention. Argh.

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No, you aren't alone, I never heard that before either.

By definenition I think of the word "gay" as meaning "happy", created by some French dude(tte) in 1895.

I got to many p.p.'s to list, but here's a few:

1. The constant "like" in a sentence. Example: "Like, did you like, watch like, this funny movie? It was like, so like, awsome, like it was like the best movie I've like ever like watched!" (It's happened to me before)

2. When people don't know how to actually chew food, and they eat like a hungry dog. Yes, chew the food, but don't chomp down on it, open your mouth as much as you can, and close your mouth again making annoying noises....it's just not right.

3. Smoking. I hate it with a passion. Yes, I do hate it...and I'm aware of what "hate" means. I have just always hated the thought of how someone could waste their life away just for a short high. (This can also be drugs & alchohol...since I hate that stuff to).

4. When people don't listen to a word you say. Isn't it just lovely when people don't care what you have to say?

5. Stupidity. "To many people are to stupid to much of the time." - a quote from a kid in my Psych. class. 'nuff said.

6. Lastly, constant down-talking. Yes, you're down, we all are. I don't want to sound mean, and I like to talk people through their problems....but if you are constantly down-talking yourself, go see a psych(ologist/iatrist). I also don't like others putting down others. It's childish, and just stupid. The way you are/look/feel (emotions) are a part of you...it's cool to be like that.

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1) Stop and Go traffic

2) Cold with out snow

3) Semi trucks in the left lane

4) Red Mutant Inguans (I'm not gonna say don't ask, but I'm warning you if you do I can't be held responsible for the fact that I'd have to tell you the whole story)

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PEOPLE WHO CAN'T OR WON'T PRONOUNCE PORSCHE CORRECTLY

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Umm.... yeah, well it's even worse when you are in the bathroom at a stall and somone calls you...

Yeah, very bad!!!

I hit the ignore button!! lol

So, what is the correct way to pronounce it?

Like the work "Porch" but with and "sh" instead of a "ch" sound, or do you go all fancy pants on it and add the "uh" sound at the end???

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It bugs me when someones necklace clasp is the in the front and when toast is buttered on the wrong side .. that drives me absolutely insane !!

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... when i get somebody really mad.. cause i was playing around too much...

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When someone has a problem with you but tells everyone else except for you....urgggg, the world would be so much simpler if everyone was just blunt and told people what they were thinking.

And when you're talking and people lip what your saying while your saying it, I dont think they realize they are doing it but it still bugs. DRIVES ME CRAZY! :ahh:

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LOL, diddo

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... when my dad starts arguing with me...

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There's a "right" side to butter your toast on? :confused: I must've missed the memo on that one. :yikes: :D

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Nobody ever told me about the "right" side of toast either. I can understand a bagel but toast?! :ahh:

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When people argue and know they are wrong, but argue because they can't admit that they are wrong...

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Porsha..Portia there is an "ah" sound at then end. We have a mentor who works at a Porsche speed shop and he races Porsches, the first thing he did was teach us how to pronounce Porsche.
(he is a friend of the Porche family...so it really gets to him!)

As for my pp...it like has to be like people downtalking you because like they like are jealous.

(erase all the likes...that was for you, Raven Riter)

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okay .. the buttering of the toast is like this .. when it comes out of a toasteroven (which is what we have .. not an actual toaster) the "right" side to be buttered is the one that was face up in the toasteroven ( the other side has lines on it ) .. and it drives me crazy when the side with the lines on it ( the "wrong" side ) is buttered ...

is it just me that this bugs ??

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How about expressing your opinion to someone who has their own set in stone and is completely unwilling to change it or truly discuss it? That drives me nuts, especially when they don't say it. I agree, be completely blunt.

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When somebody tries to insult me by calling me a geek...It makes me so mad that they think of geeks so lowly.

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lol, a geek? I didn't know they still use that word as an insult, POWER TO THE GEEKS/NERDS/LOSERS, with out us they wouldn't be cool....LOL, or at least THINK they are cool, because they wouldn't have anything to compare themselves to. LOL, we are here for the good of everyone.

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1. the general public (i work at universal studios hollywood... with the general public... i have no hope for the world)

2. people who dont know how to merge on the freeway correctly.... i dont understand what is so difficult!

3. psych teacher last semester... so shes teaching in a huge aud that would hold bout 100 student but shes like i dont want to teach that many kids so i get dropped from the class!!! :mad: its not like 500 classes were scratched from the schedule this last semester... oh wait...YES THERE WAS!!!

4. cracking ur neck... one day its just going to fall off!

5. slow cars in the left lane... i swear the call that the fast lane for a reason... get over!!!

thats all i can think of for now... im all excited now and feel like hitting someone/thing! grrrrrr....!!! :mad:

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A relatively new pet peeve: when squirrels ransack my office. So, for the second time this year, a squirrel got into our department over the weekend. Last time wasn't so bad... this time it went wild, and not a single office was spared! All of the papers on my desk were either scattered or splattered with droppings and sometimes both... my boxes of teas were all on the floor along with framed pictures that were next to them. My blinds were half way torn off of the wall and my potted plant was minus a lot of dirt. So we followed the droppings down the hall and saw scattered and splattered papers in every office, lamps knocked over, droppings, cups and mugs on the floor, more droppings, one co-worker lost a bag of peanuts to the little beast and every potted plant was trampled and torn. And finally, in the last office in the department, from the hanging plant, the nasty rodent peered down at us fearfully...

It's now in there with some live traps (our janitor tried to catch it first and ended up with scratches all over his face) and I've finally cleaned up all the droppings from my office... I think...

Heidi

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squirrel photo

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Pet Peeves in robotics... seeing as this IS a robotics forum...
Ok, we have a LOT of parents helping out this year, so we have a constant flow of food coming in. My pet peeve is FREE LOADERS. ARGH!!!! People, especially |\|008s who just come in, eat OUR food, and leave. GAR. Then those of us who have actually been WORKING don't have any good food because the dang |\|008s have eaten it all! GRRRR...
Then my next pet peeve is when couples come into robotics, and just knoodle the whole time! (knoodle = hug, kiss, exclude themselves from everything else, etc etc etc). That's why we give the "robotics friendly relationships" talk at the begining of the year. Hehehe... I have been deemed the Destroyer of PDA: AKA: the Anti-Cupid *evil grin*

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I have two:

The first is ,freshmen, they must think that it is a proper greeting to slam someone into a wall or some thing. Just yesterday I had to get two of them to stop fighting at our meeting and apaerently they were friends, whats with that!

The second is the parents in the robotics club. They just started this year and its supposed to help us but I think they just get in the way. They also take our money for "dues." I realize their trying to help but seems to me they just get in the way.

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Roommates that talk on the phone, and are so annoying - you are motivated to disconnect the phone line from the phones. My pet peeve: the roommate being so technically declined that they don't know why the phones won't work!

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My pet peeve is as my friends call stupid but any way it is when your walking somewhere and it's a small area and the person in front of you stops and starts talking and will not move no mater how many times you ask them nicely.

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My pet peeve is when ppl read over my shoulder,also when you start a conversation with someone else and someone comes and is like this convo. is stupid,I'm leaving,especially when they weren't in the convo. in the first place!

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I think I hate it more than anything when people have no motivation...also I hate it when people are overly cynical...then I REALLY hate it when people are overly cynical AND unmotivated. GRRRRRRRR!

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hmm.. pet peeves.. i'm not really a pet peeve kind of person- although i can be a tinsy bit of a perfectionist at times... :D but.. i do have to say that i find people who just continuously talk for no reason to be a bit annoying... acutally quite a bit annoying at times.

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It sure seems like I've been pet-peeving a lot lately, but this one is personal... Spiders. They’ve broken our agreement for the last time. I have no shame in admitting I do not like bugs… and have sent many to an early grave. But I always thought spiders and I had an agreement… they don’t invade my personal space and I don’t squash them. Live and let live. I abide by the agreement, even going as far as to have someone “rescue” spiders and set them free outside if I feel they are getting too close to my personal space. But over the years, spiders have broken the agreement, time and time again. Once, a tickling sensation woke me up and I peered blearily around just in time to see a big old spider go scurrying across my arm. Another time, a spider made me do the streak… I had been relaxing in a nice bubble bath, eyes closed, when I felt just the slightest motion of air in front of my face… and I opened my eyes to see two evil looking black eyes and way too many furry legs dangling in front of me… okay, so I did keep some dignity, it wasn’t a complete streak, I grabbed a towel before shrieking my way out of the bathroom… Now, that’s the main problem. Spiders make me shriek like a girly-girl. And it’s this shrieking that has made me finally call off the agreement. This morning, while talking someone on the phone about county codes and mold/mildew contamination, I absentmindedly toyed with my staple remover, flipping it over and over between my fingers. I looked down and there, sitting quite proudly on my hand was a spider as big as a quarter (well, it wasn’t quite that big, but it’s a well known fact that a spider on you is actually 5 times bigger than it was when it was still an inch away). Simultaneously, the staple remover and the spider went flying across the room as my shrieking hit new levels and I jerked away from my desk, pulling my phone to the floor with a resounding crash and knocking my cup of water over. The person I was talking to has never called me back, most likely because my shriek pierced his eardrum, or maybe he thinks my shriek indicates I’m a little over enthusiastic about mold… I may never know… but I do know this: spiders are going to be dying, oh yes, their little legs kicking all the way, whenever I see them… that is, if I don’t have to get too close to them…


Heidi

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What a tangled web we weave when first we spider fricassee…

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i hate spiders too .. i am so extremely afraid of them to the point that i start to scream and cry whenever i see one in my house and its moving. depending on where it is and what time of day//night it is, i can deal with stationary ones.

my agreement with spiders is similar to yours .. i wont kill spiders in their natural environment .. and they shouldnt come inside (meaning home, school, etc.) if they come inside, they dont live ... i cant kill them because i am too scared but i scream and cry (im serious here) until someone in my house does kill them

/edit: okay ... so spiders wouldnt really classify as a pet peeve for me ... im just really really scared of them (anyone who has been to my house and seen me when i see a spider can vouch on this one)

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i can't stand it when you are explaining something to a bunch of people and the not two minutes after you're done explaining it, one person asks you to explain something...and it's what you just finished explaining.

i also can't stand it when people eat with their mouths open. yuck! i don't wanna see what's in there so close it!

aaand... i really get annoyed with people who tell jokes that put down people of another race/sex/hair colour..etc...and then get offended when a joke about their race/sex/etc is made. i mean...if you can't take a joke about yourself, then don't joke about others. i mean..it *is* just a joke after all.

and i despise it when people tell you their beliefs (on politics, religion, or whatnot) but then can't back-up why their point of view is good. if you're going to state your opinion...make it educated, or else you're gonna be proven wrong by those who *do* know what they're talking about.

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Most of the things that Kiwi_queen said I agree with. In fact alot of the things that other people have said I agree with. But they're not really that annoying to me. I am what most people would consider annoying.

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I agree. It's really not that hard to have your other half be a member of the team and still be a productive member yourself. I should know. 814 is actually very much made up of couples. Only one of them is "knoodle" like, but still...it's annoying...

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double standards


... nuff said

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Aww... But it looks so cute!! lol


Agreed!!