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Unusual Pet Peeves
« on: November 05, 2014, 06:38:13 PM »
Pet Peeves. Once you have them it's hard to ignore them. Name any unusual pet peeves you may have. Here are mine:

  • Not using the revolving door to enter/exit an office building
  • Getting on an escalator and just standing there - unless you have a disability.

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Re: Unusual Pet Peeves
« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2014, 08:22:31 PM »
People holding the door for me when I'm 50 feet behind them and then getting impatient when I don't break into a run.

People telling me about their dreams

Anyone other than me coughing or clearing their throat.

People complaining :)

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Re: Unusual Pet Peeves
« Reply #2 on: November 05, 2014, 08:39:39 PM »
usually noises.  A squeak or a rattle can drive me insane in a short period of time.  Someone chewing ice or smacking their gum will send me over the edge.

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Re: Unusual Pet Peeves
« Reply #3 on: November 05, 2014, 08:43:24 PM »
When people say - "Between you and I".... It`s not that it bothers me because of incorrect grammar. But it gets on my nerves especially when people go out of their way to phrase a sentence that way, when it`s obvious they`re trying to sound intellectual.

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Re: Unusual Pet Peeves
« Reply #4 on: November 05, 2014, 09:18:28 PM »
People who winge about the fact that I get on the escalator at the station and just stand there. I left home at 5:30am and worked a 12 hour shift where I didn't sit down all day. I'll get off the train at 8:30pm and be home by 9, in time to throw something not too unhealthy down my throat and get up at 5 tomorrow and do it again. If I want to stand still for 20 seconds while the escalator takes me to the platform, fuck you. :P

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Re: Unusual Pet Peeves
« Reply #5 on: November 06, 2014, 12:40:30 AM »

People who winge about the fact that I get on the escalator at the station and just stand there. I left home at 5:30am and worked a 12 hour shift where I didn't sit down all day. I'll get off the train at 8:30pm and be home by 9, in time to throw something not too unhealthy down my throat and get up at 5 tomorrow and do it again. If I want to stand still for 20 seconds while the escalator takes me to the platform, fuck you. :P

@primm, that has never actually occurred to me.  I'll keep my tuts to a minimum from now on!

Unless said person is standing in the middle of the escalator so I can't get past. ;)

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Re: Unusual Pet Peeves
« Reply #6 on: November 06, 2014, 01:14:18 AM »
Overpowered subwoofers in vehicles....I hate those people

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Re: Unusual Pet Peeves
« Reply #7 on: November 06, 2014, 02:41:31 AM »

People who winge about the fact that I get on the escalator at the station and just stand there. I left home at 5:30am and worked a 12 hour shift where I didn't sit down all day. I'll get off the train at 8:30pm and be home by 9, in time to throw something not too unhealthy down my throat and get up at 5 tomorrow and do it again. If I want to stand still for 20 seconds while the escalator takes me to the platform, fuck you. :P

@primm, that has never actually occurred to me.  I'll keep my tuts to a minimum from now on!

Unless said person is standing in the middle of the escalator so I can't get past. ;)

God no! Always to the left.

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Re: Unusual Pet Peeves
« Reply #8 on: November 06, 2014, 03:00:28 AM »
I too hate when people tell me about the dream they had last night. It's a dream it doesn't make sense and chances are you are just making up half the details right on the spot as dreams are more jumbled thoughts than a coherent story.

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Re: Unusual Pet Peeves
« Reply #9 on: November 06, 2014, 08:01:06 AM »
I would imagine it's not an unusual pet peeve, but Harleys with open pipes. My god folks, no one wants to hear your blasted motor.

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Re: Unusual Pet Peeves
« Reply #10 on: November 06, 2014, 10:25:02 AM »
People who chew with their mouths open (maybe not unusual?).

The sound of a fork being pulled out between clenched teeth literally gives me shivers, not in a good way. Oddly enough, nails on a chalkboard doesn't bother me at all, so I can't use that as a comparison.

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Re: Unusual Pet Peeves
« Reply #11 on: November 06, 2014, 10:34:22 AM »
The sound of a fork being pulled out between clenched teeth literally gives me shivers, not in a good way. Oddly enough, nails on a chalkboard doesn't bother me at all, so I can't use that as a comparison.
I'm exactly the same as you in this respect. The thought of scraping a metal fork or spoon against a tooth gives me shivers too, but I'm not bothered by the chalkboard thing either. Maybe not that unusual after all?

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Re: Unusual Pet Peeves
« Reply #12 on: November 06, 2014, 11:05:30 AM »
I would imagine it's not an unusual pet peeve, but Harleys with open pipes. My god folks, no one wants to hear your blasted motor.

I'm not a biker and ... they bug me, too.  But, according to a friend, that's one of those "if you don't see me, I'll make sure you hear me" things.  They do it so you won't splat them with your car.

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Re: Unusual Pet Peeves
« Reply #13 on: November 06, 2014, 11:29:12 AM »
I may get facepunched for this, but I truly detest when adults use the following words to other adults:

Yummy/yum/yummers
Sammich/sammie
Delish
Tummy/tum-tum
Yucky
Icky
Hubby
Preggo/preggers

The food-related ones really drive me nuts.  Why must you talk like a five-year-old when discussing food?




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Re: Unusual Pet Peeves
« Reply #14 on: November 06, 2014, 11:36:26 AM »
People who come into the quiet car of the train (thanks NJ Transit) and
  • Read their newspaper, but snap open the paper
  • People who eat stuff from noisy bags
  • Play their music so loud that I can hear it from 5 feet away even though they are using earbuds


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Re: Unusual Pet Peeves
« Reply #15 on: November 06, 2014, 12:05:13 PM »
I would imagine it's not an unusual pet peeve, but Harleys with open pipes. My god folks, no one wants to hear your blasted motor.

I know, what a bunch of fags.

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Re: Unusual Pet Peeves
« Reply #16 on: November 06, 2014, 12:16:42 PM »
Cotton balls.


Ever since childhood I have hated the feeling of cotton balls.  I have an unreasonable fear that somehow they will get under my fingernails and pry my nails off of my hands.  They freak me the fuck out.

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Re: Unusual Pet Peeves
« Reply #17 on: November 06, 2014, 12:25:49 PM »
Cotton balls.


Ever since childhood I have hated the feeling of cotton balls.  I have an unreasonable fear that somehow they will get under my fingernails and pry my nails off of my hands.  They freak me the fuck out.

That's a phobia not a pet peeve

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Re: Unusual Pet Peeves
« Reply #19 on: November 06, 2014, 12:45:05 PM »
I may get facepunched for this, but I truly detest when adults use the following words to other adults:

Yummy/yum/yummers
Sammich/sammie
Delish
Tummy/tum-tum
Yucky
Icky
Hubby
Preggo/preggers

The food-related ones really drive me nuts.  Why must you talk like a five-year-old when discussing food?

Sorta the same realm, but saying Potty.  Argh that bothers me.

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Re: Unusual Pet Peeves
« Reply #20 on: November 06, 2014, 12:54:04 PM »
Cotton balls.


Ever since childhood I have hated the feeling of cotton balls.  I have an unreasonable fear that somehow they will get under my fingernails and pry my nails off of my hands.  They freak me the fuck out.

That's a phobia not a pet peeve

People who point out my mistakes.

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Re: Unusual Pet Peeves
« Reply #21 on: November 06, 2014, 01:33:08 PM »
Accounting adjustments to Retained Earnings.


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Re: Unusual Pet Peeves
« Reply #22 on: November 06, 2014, 01:39:29 PM »
I may get facepunched for this, but I truly detest when adults use the following words to other adults:

Yummy/yum/yummers
Sammich/sammie
Delish
Tummy/tum-tum
Yucky
Icky
Hubby
Preggo/preggers

The food-related ones really drive me nuts.  Why must you talk like a five-year-old when discussing food?

Sorta the same realm, but saying Potty.  Argh that bothers me.

Don't forget "making a tinkle." 

Maybe I should have just said "adults with the vocabulary of a delayed five-year-old." 

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Re: Unusual Pet Peeves
« Reply #23 on: November 06, 2014, 01:57:35 PM »
1) If someone leaves a sponge out that is wet without wringing it out
2) Not using q-tips right when I get out of the shower (I hate water in my ears)

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Re: Unusual Pet Peeves
« Reply #24 on: November 06, 2014, 02:39:31 PM »
I would imagine it's not an unusual pet peeve, but Harleys with open pipes. My god folks, no one wants to hear your blasted motor.

I'm not a biker and ... they bug me, too.  But, according to a friend, that's one of those "if you don't see me, I'll make sure you hear me" things.  They do it so you won't splat them with your car.

I'm a biker and straight pipes are stupid.  I had a very loud sport bike (bought it that way, I'd never pay to make something louder) and people would still ignore my existence and nearly run me off the road.  It's an excuse to have a bike so loud that everyone looks at them as they go by.  After all, the most important thing to any Harley owner is to make sure everyone knows they are a Harley owner.  Hence the insane amount of Harley clothing they own plus Harley stickers on every other vehicle.  Some even tattoo the logo on themselves so even when they're naked you know they are a Harley owner. 

Qoute from DW after hearing a friends straight piped bike for the first time...  "So you paid to make it sound broken?"  I almost died laughing. 

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Re: Unusual Pet Peeves
« Reply #25 on: November 06, 2014, 02:39:51 PM »
I may get facepunched for this, but I truly detest when adults use the following words to other adults:

Yummy/yum/yummers
Sammich/sammie
Delish
Tummy/tum-tum
Yucky
Icky
Hubby
Preggo/preggers

The food-related ones really drive me nuts.  Why must you talk like a five-year-old when discussing food?

Sorta the same realm, but saying Potty.  Argh that bothers me.

Don't forget "making a tinkle." 

Maybe I should have just said "adults with the vocabulary of a delayed five-year-old."

Quit being such a doo doo head.

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Re: Unusual Pet Peeves
« Reply #26 on: November 06, 2014, 07:04:47 PM »
Cotton balls.


Ever since childhood I have hated the feeling of cotton balls.  I have an unreasonable fear that somehow they will get under my fingernails and pry my nails off of my hands.  They freak me the fuck out.

That's a phobia not a pet peeve

I also have a thing about cotton.  Not a fear, it just gives me the heebie jeebies.   I am so happy that they stopped putting cotton in medicine bottles.  If I hadn't had a husband to pull out the cotton I wouldn't have been able to take an aspirin for about 20 years.

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Re: Unusual Pet Peeves
« Reply #27 on: November 06, 2014, 07:49:38 PM »
I may get facepunched for this, but I truly detest when adults use the following words to other adults:

Yummy/yum/yummers
Sammich/sammie
Delish
Tummy/tum-tum
Yucky
Icky
Hubby
Preggo/preggers

The food-related ones really drive me nuts.  Why must you talk like a five-year-old when discussing food?

Add to that choccie (chocolate), bikkie (biscuit) and breaky (breakfast) - but those might be Australia-specific. Drives me mental... just learn to fucking speak properly!

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Re: Unusual Pet Peeves
« Reply #28 on: November 06, 2014, 08:00:28 PM »
Huh. None of these childish diminutives grates on my nerves the way "veggies" does.

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Re: Unusual Pet Peeves
« Reply #29 on: November 07, 2014, 06:20:00 AM »
Paper dongles on sheets torn from spiral notebooks. I make a point of calling them "paper herpes" at the beginning of each semester to ensure students don't give them to me. So far that strategy has a 100% success rate.

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Re: Unusual Pet Peeves
« Reply #30 on: November 07, 2014, 01:35:12 PM »
Accounting adjustments to Retained Earnings.

This made me laugh...

My biggest is the sound of other people eating at the office.  Crunching loud nuts/chips or raw vegetables or apples...ARGH!

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Re: Unusual Pet Peeves
« Reply #31 on: November 07, 2014, 01:47:19 PM »
I may get facepunched for this, but I truly detest when adults use the following words to other adults:

Yummy/yum/yummers
Sammich/sammie
Delish
Tummy/tum-tum
Yucky
Icky
Hubby
Preggo/preggers

The food-related ones really drive me nuts.  Why must you talk like a five-year-old when discussing food?

Add to that choccie (chocolate), bikkie (biscuit) and breaky (breakfast) - but those might be Australia-specific. Drives me mental... just learn to fucking speak properly!

"Breaky" is here in the U.S. too although it's more often spelled as "brekky." 

Also "num-nums," "noms" and OM NOM NOM NOM.  The latter two are the direct fault of that idiotic I Can Haz Cheezburger site.  I once literally defriended someone on Facepunchbook because she kept insisting on referring to canned cat food as "gooshy fud."


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Re: Unusual Pet Peeves
« Reply #32 on: November 07, 2014, 01:53:29 PM »
My biggest is the sound of other people eating at the office.  Crunching loud nuts/chips or raw vegetables or apples...ARGH!

Sounds I can handle. I have headphones.  But the SMELLS when people decide to microwave their lunch (at 11 o'clock because they take lunch early, nevermind the rest of us that are sitting there hungry) drive me crazy!

And the worst part is, we have a breakroom, they don't have to use the microwave by the coffeemaker by the kitchnette by all the cubicles -- they could go in the break room which is separate but nooooooooo of course not, that would mean walking an extra 20 steps.

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Re: Unusual Pet Peeves
« Reply #33 on: November 07, 2014, 03:10:46 PM »
I may get facepunched for this, but I truly detest when adults use the following words to other adults:

Yummy/yum/yummers
Sammich/sammie
Delish
Tummy/tum-tum
Yucky
Icky
Hubby
Preggo/preggers

The food-related ones really drive me nuts.  Why must you talk like a five-year-old when discussing food?

You are not alone. These words squick me out! Except for Hubby. I don't really put that in the same category as baby-talk-food words.

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Re: Unusual Pet Peeves
« Reply #34 on: November 07, 2014, 03:15:57 PM »
Accounting adjustments to Retained Earnings.

Retained earnings...  Isn't that just a plug anyway?

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Re: Unusual Pet Peeves
« Reply #35 on: November 07, 2014, 03:40:20 PM »
Accounting adjustments to Retained Earnings.

Retained earnings...  Isn't that just a plug anyway?

Mine is consolidation errors.

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Re: Unusual Pet Peeves
« Reply #36 on: November 07, 2014, 04:03:23 PM »
Accounting adjustments to Retained Earnings.

Retained earnings...  Isn't that just a plug anyway?

Mine is consolidation errors.

You mean consolly boo-boos?

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« Reply #37 on: November 07, 2014, 05:19:27 PM »
Accounting adjustments to Retained Earnings.

Retained earnings...  Isn't that just a plug anyway?

I needed a trigger warning for that!!! *cry*

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Re: Unusual Pet Peeves
« Reply #38 on: November 08, 2014, 05:03:48 AM »
I may get facepunched for this, but I truly detest when adults use the following words to other adults:

Yummy/yum/yummers
Sammich/sammie
Delish
Tummy/tum-tum
Yucky
Icky
Hubby
Preggo/preggers

The food-related ones really drive me nuts.  Why must you talk like a five-year-old when discussing food?

Yes, I cannot stand this.
Also, people who complain all the time, people who are lazy, dirty dishes, a messy kitchen, people who brake to turn without using a turn signal, gossip, discussion of my or anybody else's weight loss or gain as if its an acceptable or appropriate topic of conversation.

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Re: Unusual Pet Peeves
« Reply #39 on: November 08, 2014, 08:40:35 AM »
Not sure if unusual or not...

- People chewing
- Small displacement 4 cylinder engines with "fart cans" on them (typical offender is young Honda owner)
- Harleys with loud pipes
- Jet engines
- The word "chops" as used in "business chops"

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Re: Unusual Pet Peeves
« Reply #40 on: November 10, 2014, 01:05:24 AM »
I may get facepunched for this, but I truly detest when adults use the following words to other adults:

Yummy/yum/yummers
Sammich/sammie
Delish
Tummy/tum-tum
Yucky
Icky
Hubby
Preggo/preggers

The food-related ones really drive me nuts.  Why must you talk like a five-year-old when discussing food?

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