Pet Peeves

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Tardiness has to be my #1 pet peeve. This includes me being late, or someone else being late. I don't understand why some people are constantly late. Do they not know how to tell time? If it's just once in a while that it's done, I can let it go, but not when people make a habit of it.

I hate word prolbems in math, bras, birkenstocks, ditsy airheads who are'nt smart like me , loud ppl, and really really stric uptight ppl who make alot of rules

The entire "pop-punk" and "garage rock revival" movement in music. Most far-right Republicans and some far-left Democrats. Singers who call themselves artists whose last single was written by someone with no association whatsoever to the singer. Ignorance.

Mostly stupid people. At work last week someone ran through the front door just to ask me what time we close. HELLO. IT'S A BUSINESS. 90% OF BUSINESS HAVE THE HOURS LISTED ON THE DOOR. YOU KNOW, THAT THING YOU JUST WALKED THROUGH?

1. Spelling errors such as "whinge"

2. "Loose" in place of "lose", "to" in place of "too" (or reverse), etc.

3. Smokers. Cigarette smoke makes my nose and eyes itch and the smell is terrible.

4. "hay i c ur online" and other netspeak (except for when it's done as a joke).

5. Screaming babies and children.

6. The way other students in my Spanish classes BUTCHER the pronunciations of vowels and words. "Whole-la, como tay l-yamas?" *smacks the offending person with a dead fish*

7. Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, and the Bush Administration (among others).

8. When one of my sisters runs towards me with open arms saying "HUG!"

You grammar nuts well love this story:
I have a friend who went through my year book and corrected all the your-you're mis-spellings. He drew a line from the incorrect spelling and wrote the proper one at the end of it. My yearbook is covered in grammar corrections.

I use netspeak except when talking to a friend who can't stand it. My computer's slow and I think slowly in social conversations. I can't keep up in conversations without abbreviating things.

I'm also annoyed/confused by the lose-loose thing. Why would someone add an extra "o"? WHY?!

Today's "Rock" music/mainstream music. The majority of it is complete and utter shi*! And the second something good is played, everyone mistakes for something bad and it's never played again.

i have to agree with aaronkt above. i like to be exactly on time or 5 minutes early, so ive kind of come to expect other people to do the same or it annoys me no end. i guess its kind of unfair on other people, but they should learn not to be late.

1) The WB network
2) boy bands
3) people whoput me down on me for being "too educated"
4) styrofoam anything
5) people who feel compelled to tell me their own theories of psychology and psychotherapy unsolicited
6) *most* country music
7) evangelists
8. too big SUV's
9) romance novels
10) racism/sexism and all other forms of discrimination
11) Mullets (hairstyle)
12) when the same commercial is played 2X in a row
13) traffic
14) people who ride bicycles on busy roads
15) Churches that think their little signs are clever when they are really stupid.


...and many more

They kind of follow in line with George Carlin and Dennis Leary

My biggest pet peave is when I take Chico for a Walk and there's a whole bunch of waste from some Fast Food resturaunt strewn all over the Sidewalk. My Dog loves to get into garbage.

Dog poo on the footpath (especially if I don't see it till I step in it)

Loud obnoxious screaming commercials on TV or radio.

Inane sitcoms like Friends, Dharma & Greg and similar.

People who act shallow and insincere and who are undependable.

Being interrupted when I'm talking.

Screaming kids and babies.

Being hurried.

They even had a song about the mullet here in Australia - "Mullet Head" by Chris Franklin. It didn't really have that much commercial success but he explained that the mullet came about when he only had enough money to pay the barber to cut about half his hair so he said cut the sides short and leave the back long.

Another pet peeve is people who say "I can't help you" when what they really mean is "I won't help you".