Board 8 > What oddly specific pet peeves do you have?

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I cant stand when people post on Reddit trying to crowdsource names for their pets. Its not that hard to pick a name for your pet.

no this topic is definitely not a poorly disguised way for me to complain about this

If you're going to move into the left lane on the highway (i.e., the passing lane), FUCKING PASS AND GET OVER! Do not lollygag about it and go slower than you were when you zoomed up in the right lane.

I've accumulated a lot of driving pet peeves working as a mail carrier. The one that annoys me most is someone honking at me if I haven't done anything wrong. A close second is someone trying to pass me on the left as I'm turning right. You can wait the extra few seconds it takes me to complete the turn.

People that spell Usopp from One Piece as "Ussop"

Not sure if it counts as a pet peeve but since I just went grocery shopping today it's on my mind.

I really hate how often I'll see empty coffee cups sitting on the shelf at the grocery store. Lazy ass people can't even bother to walk to one of the multiple garbage cans in the store, or even just sit the cup in the cart/basket they're likely using until they leave since there's garbage cans right next to the exits.

Misspelling villain as villian. They're (usually) not Vaudevillians...

Also pharaoh as pharaoh, but at least phonetically I can see why people might misspell it.

A spelling pet peeve of mine is spelling it "woah" instead of "whoa"

Not me but my wife. I once asked her what was the most annoying thing I did and she told me she hates the way I mix my hot sauce with my Mac and cheese. The sound is gross to her. When I asked her if the sound of just mixing mac and cheese around in a bowl would annoy her, she said no because it would sound different.

The subways here have capacitive buttons you can use to get the doors to open at stops. People for some reason angrily mash them to try to get doors to open faster which obviously does nothing. But even worse is that you can activate the button at any time and it'll start blinking to indicate it'll open as soon as it can when the next station is reached. And people will still mash the button, often watching you press it early and pushing past you to pointlessly activate it more. YOU'VE PROBLABLY LIVED IN THIS CITY FOR YEARS HOW DO YOU NOT KNOW HOW THIS WORKS

My pet peeve involves foot traffic. I've always been on the larger side, but I walk fast, and it seriously irks me when I'm going down the sidewalk in my town and the SLOWEST person is meandering right up the middle of the sidewalk. Hug the buildings, and I risk getting smacked in the face by someone leaving it. Try to cut around the curbside? They will speed up juuuust enough that I'm going to wind up either having to step off the curb or have to duck under a small tree.

Similarly, a pet peeve with an IRL friend - he KNOWS I'm deaf in the right ear and yet he almost always will walk on the right hand side of me - and get pissed when I ask him to repeat himself.

LeonhartFour posted...

A spelling pet peeve of mine is spelling it "woah" instead of "whoa"

similar, ive gotten used to yea

but people that think ya is equivalent to yeah drive me nuts

People who slow down to check their phones or go into their pockets right in a doorway. Take literallly three steps forward or to the side and you'll avoid slowing me - and everyone else - down in a busy choke.

When people says "how it looks like" instead of "what it looks like."

Other common grammatical errors I look past, but that one in particular sounds really dumb to the point I don't know how people can consistently make that error.

Kotetsu534 posted...

People who slow down to check their phones or go into their pockets right in a doorway. Take literallly three steps forward or to the side and you'll avoid slowing me - and everyone else - down in a busy choke.

Something that I know will make me snap one day is when old people (it's always old people) get into the grocery store they just fucking stop, like they are overwhelmed by the choices, or they want to stop to check the paper for coupons, or wipe down their cart. They stop in the fucking doorway. It happens every other time I get to the supermarket.

ZenOfThunder posted...

Something that I know will make me snap one day is when old people (it's always old people) get into the grocery store they just fucking stop, like they are overwhelmed by the choices, or they want to stop to check the paper for coupons, or wipe down their cart. They stop in the fucking doorway. It happens every other time I get to the supermarket.

people do that at stores that have a gate so the only choice you are even able to make is whether to grab a basket or not (which they don't, they always have carts)

Fancy restaurants that serve a dime-sized portion of food on a giant plate (or at least giant by comparison). I've never even been to one of those places but even seeing photos of it irritates me. Also any restaurant with a dress code

catesdb posted...

similar, ive gotten used to yea

but people that think ya is equivalent to yeah drive me nuts

ya is not as bad since it at least shortens. woah is horrible.

using apostrophe-s to denote plural is an abomination

Misuse of "myself" which happens alarmingly often in professional contexts

Misspelling of very common easy words such as "loose" for "lose" and "bias" for "biased"

I have enough of these to fill the entire topic, but I'll start with the first thing I thought of:

Turning verbs into nouns, like "ask." No, it's not a tough ask, it's a tough request. Language evolves, sure, but could we try to stick to maintaining parts of speech?

It annoys me when people say "irregardless"

azuarc posted...

I have enough of these to fill the entire topic, but I'll start with the first thing I thought of:

Turning verbs into nouns, like "ask." No, it's not a tough ask, it's a tough request. Language evolves, sure, but could we try to stick to maintaining parts of speech?

why? it's useful/gainful and doesn't obfuscate meaning, which is all you can really ask for linguistic changes, and it's not like English has any consistent rules about differentiating verbs and nouns anyhow

Because "a tall ask" just sounds stupid.

Commercials where the woman narrating has some scratchy vocal fry. It grates on me and it really shouldn't.

azuarc posted...

Because "a tall ask" just sounds stupid.

Yes that does sound stupid, but doesn't that have more to do with "tall" than "ask" as a noun?

Ask has been used as a noun in the case of market ask/bid spread since before we were born. It's not that strange that decades later it might now be used for more general purposes than the specific use case from which it originated.

The destruction of "literally"

People watching tv or listening to music in public on their device with the sound on while the public location already has music playing.

Drives me bonkers.

junk_funk posted...

People watching tv or listening to music in public on their device with the sound on

could have just cut it off here tbh

Responding to the headline rather than the article. It happens on pretty much all social media, but I primarily see it on Reddit. People don't talk about articles, they instead talk about what they imagine the article contains.

It happens on pretty much every article, and it's all but guaranteed that this will happen if the headline dares to contain a question.

azuarc posted...

I have enough of these to fill the entire topic, but I'll start with the first thing I thought of:

Turning verbs into nouns, like "ask." No, it's not a tough ask, it's a tough request. Language evolves, sure, but could we try to stick to maintaining parts of speech?

no

junk_funk posted...

People watching tv or listening to music in public on their device with the sound on while the public location already has music playing.

Drives me bonkers.

We can also add people talking on speaker phone in public

People repeating a non-recent story to multiple groups
People talking about doing hard drugs or dealing them as a teenager in a boastful way
People putting too much gutteral oooohh uuuuhhhh aaahh into songs they sing to give it "soul" or whatever

I dunno maybe these aren't specific enough

When people say "chef's kiss", ugh. I can't even figure out why it bothers me, it's just an irrational annoyance.

Inconsiderate people in general also yeah. Standing in the middle of a walkway chatting with someone, so you have to awkwardly shimmy by them or loudly interrupt them to get by. People driving slow in the fast lane. People who think their music or video is so good that everyone around them wants to hear it too. Basically people who think they're more important than everyone else.

junk_funk posted...

People watching tv or listening to music in public on their device with the sound on while the public location already has music playing.

Drives me bonkers.

This only really got bad after everyone removed the headphone jack on phones. So I think phone manufacturers deserve half the blame here.

junk_funk posted...

People watching tv or listening to music in public on their device with the sound on while the public location already has music playing.

Drives me bonkers.

one time some ladies asked me to turn my music up while I was sitting on a park bench quietly since I forgot my headphones

the power of Paris Paloma

I like how this topic is about issues people have that are just your own personal problems, and everyone else has been able to post theirs without trouble, but mine has gotten responses from at least three people telling me I'm wrong.

Not knowing my alt account name

Being called bud or buddy. It just sounds so patronizing.

azuarc posted...

I like how this topic is about issues people have that are just your own personal problems, and everyone else has been able to post theirs without trouble, but mine has gotten responses from at least three people telling me I'm wrong.

yours has been the only one that's wrong

NFUN posted...

yours has been the only one that's wrong

Pet peeves aren't right or wrong, they're just things that annoy you

You can be annoyed by something that's technically correct

People walking slowly in front of me and spreading themselves out so it's impossible to pass the group of them

Ending posts with ", though." and I have no idea why

Honestly I have a few and I'll probably come back to this a few times

Leonhart4 posted...

Pet peeves aren't right or wrong, they're just things that annoy you

You can be annoyed by something that's technically correct

which is why it's notable he was wrong, though

Underleveled posted...

Being called bud or buddy. It just sounds so patronizing.

This reminded me of another one of mine: I hate when people use your name during conversations when it's completely unnecessary. I know they even encourage it in customer service and stuff but it annoys the crap out of me

"Hey Bob. How are you doing today, Bob? Would you like some coffee, Bob?" please stop saying my name I know you're talking to me

azuarc posted...

I like how this topic is about issues people have that are just your own personal problems, and everyone else has been able to post theirs without trouble, but mine has gotten responses from at least three people telling me I'm wrong.

I mean, the end of your first post posed a question. I was just answering it.

azuarc posted...

I like how this topic is about issues people have that are just your own personal problems, and everyone else has been able to post theirs without trouble, but mine has gotten responses from at least three people telling me I'm wrong.

I think part of it is the example you chose is a very common turn of phrase. An ask in particular is something I use in my vocabulary regularly - despite that Im sure there are many examples Id probably agree with you on

I hate people who don't properly put their shopping carts away in the parking lot.

Maniac64 posted...

I hate people who don't properly put their shopping carts away in the parking lot.

I wouldn't say this is "oddly specific." Absolutely fuck those people.

Maniac64 posted...

I hate people who don't properly put their shopping carts away in the parking lot.

It's super annoying when you're about to pull into a parking space and someone has left a shopping cart right in the middle of it

Massively oversized pickup trucks incapable of doing actual truck stuff being driven by idiots who don't really need a truck anyway.

Xeybozn posted...

Massively oversized pickup trucks incapable of doing actual truck stuff being driven by idiots who don't really need a truck anyway.

the world would be a better place if we all had the superior automobile, the Subaru forester

Subaru drivers do care about their families more than other people do, this is true