Pet Peeves

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Mushy food. Slimy food. Food with a slop-like texture, where you don't even need to bother opening your jaws - let alone chew. It would all just suck between your teeth.

Wet, rainy summers

I've started purposely walking into people in the street when they're not paying attention to what's going on around them, because they're looking at their phones

It peeves me why people can't put their phones away even in the safety of other people

Everyone wants to be right

I find this annoying too. Walking with one's phone out in public should be frowned upon.

It is just unnecessary to be scrolling the internet in public, oblivious to one's surroundings.

An important phone call is okay, but scrolling the internet in public, really?

There's a guy round our way who reads a book whilst walking down the street

Maybe it's some kind of coping mechanism

I'd be walking into lampposts if it was me

That sort of person is most likely to do something just like that... or bump into someone else, or force others to walk around them.

Maybe he's got eyes on top of his head like a frog

What really makes me laugh in this respect is when walking home of an evening I see guys in the bars, enjoying each others company (presumably…) but, instead of talking to each other, they are all intently staring at their phones, hoping for a message!

I know

There's definitely a case to be made for going out alone these days

Necroposting 12-year-old threads on outdated topics. All new members should really be reminded about this and to only bump old threads if they're still going to be of value today. Some threads (like this one) are timeless and fun, so it doesn't matter if bumped. But some thread topics died a natural death like a decade ago and wouldn't serve any value today. For example, a thread in 2010 asking advice on what college classes they should take, then 15 years later a newbie comes and bumps it responding with "I think you should take the classes, good luck!" - even though the OP of the thread hasn't posted in like over a decade and if he or she was still here they've probably graduated from college a long time ago and have most likely forgotten about it.

When you say something on a forum and someone has to be a smartass about it.

Like for example, when an OP is complaining about the subject of their thread changing on to an unrelated topic, and they give an example like "my topic is supposed to be about pineapples but you are all talking about kings, what gives?" and then someone responds like "pineapples and kings are kinda related, like if a king likes eating pineapples". Ugh, it just makes you sigh, and then they tell you to get a sense of humour - without respecting that sometimes it isn't the right time to tell a joke and it can just be seen as obnoxious.