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Peeves from January-April 1999!!
--Added 04/19/99-------
- I Hate it when movies that are really really good, never end..you
know what I mean..you think it is over, and then all of a sudden, someone else
dies and then the credits come up..like in "I still know what you did last
summer", I thought it was over, then the bum came back and drug her under the
bed, just making you HAVE to go and see the next sequal which is guarenteed to
be coming out once you are no longer interested in seeing it. What are they
gonna call the next one? I Still KINDA know what you did the past TWO
summers??? I dont understand these people that make movies!!
Holly [Hollywv16@aol.com]
Thanks to Doktor Eisenbart [beldin@mindspring.com] for the next 3 peeves!
- I hate it when people think I'm some kind of weirdo
because I listen to heavy metal and country. I just happen to love both.
There's nothing wrong with a CD collection that includes KoRn, Clint Black,
Pantera, Diamond Rio, Guns 'n Roses, and Deana Carter! And guess what, folks?
Kiss was one of Garth Brooks' main influences! Yes, the biggest selling country
artist of all time (and biggest selling of ANY music type) is a heavy metal
fan!
- Next, I can't stand Tom Greene! He's that moron with his own show on MTV. All
he does is carry a camera around and do mean things to people. Someone is going
to kick his ass royally one of these days.
- Another one: I can't stand people who fart and destroy the ozone layer just to
keep from spontaneously combusting! I mean, come on! Stop being so selfish!
(South Park joke hehehehehehe)
--Added 04/16/99-------
Thanks to RAD-Cnsrv for the next 3 peeves
- Hangun Control Inc.
- Sarah Brady
- People that Missouri would be like the wild west if Missouri legalized
concealed carry permits - folks, states that have concealed carry have
lower crime rates - for instanceFlorida's crime rate went down 43% the first year they had it
Thanks again to my buddy Melissa T :-) for the next 8 peeves!
- I work at a university and it really amazes me how so many
students DO NOT READ OR FOLLOW DIRECTIONS! For example, I put a sign on
my door saying "Please go to Joe Schmoe Hall to get your student ID's and
parking permits." But not a day goes by when at least five students come in and
say "can I get my parking permit/student ID here?" ARGGH!
- When you bump into someone or step on their toe and say "excuse me" in
a polite manner and they STILL give you dirty looks -- hey, it was an
accident!
- People at work who pile stuff on my desk, like it's some kind of
trash pile.
- Idiots who walk around with big, ugly (live) snakes coiled around
their arms or other body parts. This is illegal here, but people do it anyway.
It's a shame that these people have such a low self-esteem that they have to
hide behind a nasty-looking reptile.
- Walking into an expensive clothing shop and having a snooty looking
"sales consultant" look you up and down, and then say "I'm sorry, I don't think
we have your size." Like a size 12 is really enormous!
- Telling someone you have a cold or flu and they say "stay away from
me!" Not only is this rude and insensitive, it's not like you have the plague
or something.
- People who think mice are cute. They're dangerous, nasty,
disease-carrying vermin!!
- People like Jonathan below who dislike "fat, ugly people". They have
a right to go to the beach, too -- just because you're over a certain
size/weight doesn't mean that you don't have the right to enjoy life. My brother is
very large (over 300 pounds) and it's really a disgrace what he has to put up
with -- and he HAS tried to lose weight, so he's not a fat, lazy slob, as some
might think. People come in all shapes and sizes; not everyone can look like
Calista Flockhart (and not everyone wants to). It's a shame that this person has
such a low opinion of himself.
NOTE: Because of my numerous peeves, some may think that I'm constantly
p**sed off. I'm not, I just get cranky sometimes, like now, when I don't feel
well and I had to come into work because I don't have any sick days left!
Thanks to "Another Disgruntled West Virginian" [Hollywv16@aol.com] for
the next 6 peeves!
- Yes, I can spell
- Yes, My IQ is higher than 5
- Yes, I wear shoes!!
- No, My mom is not my aunt!
- No, My brother is not my uncle!
- Why does everyone have to start with me as soon as I say I am from West
Virginia? We are normal! Depending on what your definition of "normal"
is..We eat at the same resturaunts as you, go to the same gas stations, and yes,
we know what a mall is! I do not know anyone with more than one first name
(Ex:Jim Bob, Billie Jo, Mary Sue).None of my friends that are girls have more hair
on their face than I have on my head, and I have septic, electric, and every
other "modern" thing, I mean think about it, I have a computer..right? Well, we
dont have electric, the pig stepped on the tin can knocking out the reception
to the t.v which caused the electric to go out, but my computer is hooked up to a
sun dial and I am here making this peeve from good old West Virginia!Yea
right!! Before people judge things, they should stop by a West virginia
web page and look at some of the beautiful things that this state has to offer...I
look out my back door, and a mountain is 100 ft away from my house, it is
beautiful, all the wild life, and I was raised in Maryland, on the shore,
near the Ocean, but I wouldnt give up my "Hick State" for nothing! I love it here!!
Thanks to Steve S. for the next 6 peeves!
- -People who do a second-rate version of my writing style.
I know I'm good, and imitation is the sincerest form of
flattery, but plagiarism is really the sign of a lack of
creative ability.
- Verbally cautious types who, when asked to estimate a numerical value,
will instead give a range of values, as if
their reputations will suffer irreparable damage if they guess wrong:"Oh,
that was about three or four weeks ago..."
"Five, six, seven thousand dollars, something like that..."
"Feels like about fifty or sixty degrees out there...". You're supposed
to be estimating! It doesn't matter if you're not exact!
- People who think Bill Clinton is a liberal. Let's run down the list:
NAFTA, GATT, dismantling of the welfare system,more drug busts than Bush, the
U.S. throwing its military weight around...yeah, he's a liberal, all right. He's a
dope-smokin', commie peacenik leading us down the garden
path to Socialism.
- Anti-smoking fanatics who apparently have such an underdeveloped
olfactory sense that they frequently confuse
the smell of cured tobacco smoke with that of farts, B.O.,
and other unpleasantries.
- Inconsiderate smokers who say things like "Ya mind if I smoke?
Doesn't matter, cause I'm gonna smoke anyway! Ha Ha
Ha!" Smokers (like myself) who try to show some consideration for
non-smokers are not exactly impressed.
- Humor-impaired folks who think that someone who posts a pet peeve
against people who post pet peeves couldn't possibly be joking. Unfortunately,
medical science has yet to invent a cure for irony deficiency.
- Two words: DEAD LINKS. Why is it there are som many invalid links
on the web? I assume people create web pages because they feel the need
to share their ideas and thoughts with others. Some sites are intended to
educate people. Well how well informed and stimulated are you by a dead link?
Not very I would imagine. If you do not have sufficient time or the interest
in keeping your page valid THEN PULL IT FROM THE NET. We the people of the
net are tired of you sorry ass pages.
Vecsus [Vecsus@aol.com]
--Added 04/15/99-------
- I am REALLY getting tired of people telling me I am not a good enough
Christian because of some of the music I listen to and because I
have ONE LINK to a SouthPark site on my page!
- I am also getting tired of people on my Ring of Conservative sites who
refuse to follow directions!! (no Rad, not you!)
- People with dirty nails, if their nails are not clean what else
isn't.
Carolyne Bell [carolynebell@hotmail.com]
--Added 04/14/99-------
- I get pissed off at smokers that whine about not being allowed to
light up whenever and wherever they want. Then they have the gall to
bitch about some "foreign guy" that smells a little funky. Last time I
checked BO did not give you cancer. Shut-up and get the PATCH.
Vecsus [Vecsus@aol.com]
- Taxes (of course!) The fact that my taxes get 100 times more
complicated because I do soemthing simple, like sell Tshirts!
- I HATE how smokers are treated like CRAP! Yeah, it's my fault I
smoke. But, I don't go into a restaurant & request to sit in the
"non-body odor" section, do I? And if, say, any ethnic group was offensive
to me, I really think if I requested them to leave, I'd be told, "If you
don't like them, go somewhere else!" Just a thought...
Libby
[tig_gurr@hotmail.com]
Thanks to Russell [toby1@ziggycom.net] for the next 13 peeves!
It's me, Russell-here's some more wonderful peeves!!
- Backstreet boys
- N'SYNC
- Slobedan Milosevic
- Bill Clinton
- silent, and or compromising republicans who aren't standing on their
pricipals.
- The fact that three of our men are being held by "slovo", yes I know
this happens in war, but I still hate it.
- The fact that the vietnam war and it's soldiers were protested but no
one's protesting this one-where are the 60's crowd?
- People who are complaining about those who smoke and those who have
SUV's. I don't smoke and don't like the smoke, but I don't go around
whining
about it and telling others they can't do it anywhere. I do like SUV's and
would like to own one someday, I think the only reason people and the
gov't are going after them is the same as the war on tobacco(still a legal
thing)-SUV's are popular and generate alot of money in sales. PEOPLE LIKE
THEM CALM DOWN!!
- COMPACT, SMALL UGLY CARS!!(this might be why there are alot of SUV's
on the roads)
- People who either speak, or write the lord's name in vain.
- Those who complain about christians who are doing what they believe
and think is right and just.
- People who DON'T work. You know the type. They're the ones lying
around for no good reason, laughing at those who are working, pulling
their
weight and the weight of others who are not toiling at all. The ones who
have
mastered the welfare system and are abusing it, thus the people who really
need it like the disabled who can't work, do not benefit from it thanks to
the unworking able. The ones who shout "I want my check" as if they have a
right to it, and walking to the mailbox to get it qualifies as work. This
is the zenith of shame-inducement.
- Once again, I'm reading this fine peeve page when, SHAZAM!!-I see it
again. Someone, who after they submitted peeves and said peeves were
posted,
the last peeve they posted says "People who post pet peeves: like anybody
else cares." Why do people send in peeves and them complain about peeve
pages and or pet peeves?!?
Thanks again to Michelle M. for the next 2 peeves!
- Ok, I have ranted about this before but feel the need to do so again.
BIG RANT AGAINST NON SMOKERS!!!!!!!! GET OFF MY BACK!!!!! I Dont litter, I
don't smoke in people's houses that dont smoke, I dont blow my smoke in
your faces, but I am getting really REALLY tired of being treated like
some kind of damned crimminal because I smoke. IT IS MY CHOICE OK???? If
I die from it it's MY fault..not the tobacco companies or any one elses.
If you people have such an almighty hang-up about smoking in resturants
then QUIT FREQUENTING THE ONES THAT ALLOW SMOKING!!!!!!!!!! USE YOUR DAMN
BRAINS!!!! There are a TON of NON-SMOKING places available to you people.
What absolutely KILLS me about this is you major bitchers out there keep
whining about us and all the while this nations death toll due to drinking
is still way up there. How many people are getting killed by smokers
behind the wheel? Dang get a new CAUSE already.....we have been taxed to
death, run out of most of the public places....it's time to STEP
OFF!!!!!!!!
- An IDIOT Judge that would allow a case where some smoker sues a
tobacco
company because they got cancer or whatever is just as ignorant as the
idiot
doing the suiing. It has been on cigarette packs since the 60's that
smoking
is harmful to one's health. Now unless you are completly illiterate, dont
own
Thanks to Scott [sctibbs@yahoo.com] for the next 6 peeves
New pet peeves from my new job!!
- People who run off with the forms I am supposed to
enter into the computer
- Inspectors who don't fill out the forms right.
Others...
- People who don't use turn signals
- People who pass on the right
- People from Michigan. :-)
- "This program has performed an illegal operation
and will be shut down"
--Added 04/12/99-------
Thanks to Steve S. [yt13004x4@aol.com] for the next 3 peeves
- I have not bought a new car in a couple of years, but last time I
checked, all the new ones came with ash trays! Next time you're at a
major intersection, just check out the pile up of "butts" on the curb.
- Oh, and stomping it out after you've thrown it out on the sidewalk does
not make it LESS disgusting.
- One last thing. 50 blasts of perfume and a box of Altoid mints does not
conceal the fact that you have had like 13 cigarettes before sitting next
to me on the bus!
Thanks to Brendt for the next 8 peeves
- Online forms that run all the paragraphs together.
- Drunken restaurant designers who place non-smoking and smoking
tables 6 inches apart, assuming that the smoke will recognize the
3-foot-high wall between them as a border not to be crossed.
- The drunken children of the afore-mentioned drunken restaurant
designers who get jobs as host or hostess of those restaurants who, when I ask to be
seated in "VERY non-smoking--as far from the smoking section as possible,"
proceed to seat me as NEAR to the smoking section as possible, then sigh loudly and
roll their eyes when I ask for a different table.
- My wife, who scolds me for pointing out their mistake in an impatient
tone. I learned "near" and "far" from Grover on Sesame Street when I was 1/4 their
age.
- Smokers who attempt to comparatively justify their habit by pointing out
how I eat. I'm not projectile-vomiting my chili cheese fries onto their plates.
- Smokers who invite me to engage in sexual relations with myself when I ask
them politely to smoke somewhere else.
- Barbara Bush, for not focusing more of her literacy efforts on
smokers, most of whom apparently can't read "No Smoking" signs. I mean, it is a literacy
problem, right? They're not just sub-infatile addicts, are they?
- The two polite smokers on the planet who keep me from making broad,
disparaging remarks about "all smokers".
- Getting email like this: "Do you have a log-on for those who would
like to receive your e-mail on TWA 800?" What??? Log on for TWA? People
want to get my email on TWA????
- When I ask the person (above) what they are talking about, they get
mad! Then I get mad and send a not too pleasant message, then I feel bad
and apologize, while I am still confused as to what on earth the person
was talking about in the first place!
- The fact that Lillian Axe is playing reunion shows but none are
anywhere near me :(
Thanks to Jonathan [fred_mercury9_5@hotmail.com] for the next 11
peeves
- White people who walk around wearing baggy jeans, big bulky
sweatshirts, backwards hats and more than 8 earrings and pretend that they
are "black" people (as in the harlem rapper sense, and no, I'm not a racist).
- Those same people who have their car stereos turned up so damn loud that
other people can hear heavily distorted bass from half way across the county.
- People who bitch at me for doing something yet don't even notice when ten
other people do the same thing.
- Man who typie typie in not write good English talkie talkie
(people who don't post messages is complete sentences and good, propery
English grammer. Minor spelling and/or grammer mistakes are fine, I have probably
made several in this paragraph, but no more caveman talk, please!)
- When I'm in the _middle_ (not the front) of a long line of people, and the
guy behind me says "Hey, hurry up already!"
- When fat, ugly people flaunt their bodies at the beach (I myself am a
fat ugly person, and I am kind enough to hide my body so other people don't have to
look at it).
- People who always so "No excuses" and "You have to take responsibility"
and "Oh, it's always someone ELSE'S fault, right?" It is very rare that a
situation is totally the result of one person's actions, and usually there
are many contributing factors. If someone takes the blame for something that
is not totally their fault, I see that person a filthy LIAR and no better
than the guy who blames stuff on everyone else.
- People who don't know when to shut up, like during a movie.
- People who fart in my car (or anywhere near a group of people in a
confined area) and say "Oh, sorry. I can't help it."
- Freshman and Sophomores in highschool who drink one beer and then
stumble around saying "Oh wow I'm sooooooooo druuuunk oh wow..aren't I cool...cuz
I'm so drunk."
- People that use the phrase "buckle-down" (I guess it means to "try
really hard" or something)
- people with huge overblown egos
"unknown"
- My pet peeve is when my husband says he will call me then
convenetly forgets and wish I could forget sometimes
Sherry
- SUV's, SUV's, SUV's! People who think they need to have SUV's.
Generation "Gimmee" . in SUV's. Soccer moms with stretched skin in SUV's.
The sense of utter entitlement of people who drive SUV's. SUV's perpetually in
my rear view mirror. Help me! Is this my country?
Natalie
trapped in SoCal
Thanks to Steve S. for the next 5 peeves
- Kids in libraries: Parents, I'm sorry to break the news
to you, but the library is not an auxiliary day care center. Take your
goddamn little brats outside when they
begin screeching and crying. Don't stand there with an
impassive look, as if no one else would mind trying to study or read while
your troll screams.
- Work-obsessed folks: You know the type. They're the ones
lying awake at night, worrying that someone, somewhere, is
not devoting his or her life to unceasing toil. The ones
who, without any knowledge of the structure or function of
the welfare system, see fit to pronounce on "bums" who take
a "handout" from the government. The ones who yell "Get a
job!", as if that were the zenith of shame-inducement.
- Evangelizing Christians: No, I don't want to come to your
stupid church and be "saved". I do want to be "saved" from
smug religionists.
- Apartment neighbors: Hey, crank that goddamn stereo up a
little louder! I love it! Blast that TV, and slam every
goddamn door in your place with maximum force! I don't need to
sleep--your
needs come first.
- People who post pet peeves: Like anybody else cares.
Thanks again to Melissa T for the next 6 peeves
- That virus that had my name -- I was so sick of hearing "oh, did
you cause that virus, ha ha." After the fiftieth time, it wasn't funny
anymore. And why was it named the "Melissa Virus"? Why not the "Hortense
Virus" or the "Gertrude Virus?" This is definitely going to be on the
agenda
at the Million Melissa March!
- People who ridicule women who like romance novels. No, I'm not
particularly fond of the genre, but I don't think that people who like
them or
stupid or airheads or anything. Some of them can actually be quite
well-written.
- My trashy neighbors who leave garbage cans full of beer cans, pizza
boxes,
etc. out all the time. There goes the neighborhood!
- People who talk about "the poor". Who do they mean? There's all
kinds of poor people: the working poor (people who work, but have jobs so lousy
they can barely make ends meet) "middle-class" people who would be poor if
they missed a paycheck, women who would be poor if their husbands divorced them
(like me), etc. In fact, probably everybody on this Board would be
considered "poor" by Bill Gates' standards.
- Also don't like the term "inner city". What, exactly, does this mean?
If there is an "inner city" is there an "outer city" or a "middle city" --
kinda like Middle Earth? This is just a way to stigmatize people by
saying they're "inner city" folks, which brings up all kinds of negative racially-charged
connotations.
- People who criticize Liddy Dole, the Bush family, and other
Republicans because they come from wealthy families. Now, Algore didn't exactly grow
up in the poorhouse. Nor did Ted ("the Chappaquidick Kid") Kennedy? How many
black or brown folks live in Hyannis Port (not including "the help"). And
what about Clinton's rich buddies, such as Steven Spielberg, one of the
wealthiest men in the country? I guess it's a "sin" to be rich if you're a
conservative, but okay if you're a liberal.
(Confidential to Jules: In past times, people used to hang on in the
kitchen because it was often the largest room in the house and the warmest, since
the cooking fires were located there -- maybe it's ancestral memory that
folks like to gather in there now).
Thanks again to Michelle M. for the next 2 peeves
- I hate the fact that Yahoo has a bajillion people using their site
and they are so overloaded that their pages dont update half the time.
It makes me wanna scream when people go "Smile!!!!" HELLO!!!!!!! I am not
a
smiley person OK??? Just because I dont walk around with a stupid grin
pasted
on my face 24-7 doesnt mean I am pissed etc. I just dont smile all the
time
and I HIGHLY resent some idiot telling me to "smile!!"
- Spam email.......I have no idea how people get my server addy email
but it
grosses me out to get email that invites me to some porno site GAG!!!!!!
--Added 04/06/99-------
Thanks to Scott [sctibbs@yahoo.com] for the next 6 peeves!
- People who drive 45 mph in a 65 mph zone!
- People who say the Los Angeles Lakers is the team to beat in the
West,
despite the fact that the Utah Jazz have soundly beaten L.A. the last 2
years
in the playoffs and are 2-time defending Western Conference Champions. To
be
the man, you have to beat the man!!
- People who say San Antonio Spurs center David Robinson is "soft". A
soft
player does not grab 1000 rebounds in the regular season.
- Businesses who refuse to hire me because I am OVER
qualified.
- S -- L -- O -- W coffee pots
- Webpages where the visited links are the same color as
the nonvisited links.
Thanks to Jules for the next 26 peeves! (one for every letter of the
alphabet!
- AMERICANS who discriminate non-Americans. For instance, several
colleges require you to have American citizenship in order to get a
scholar.
I'm Canadian, English is my first language, I've lived here for a while
and I
do well in school but never the less, my scholarship might be passed over
to a
dumb jock who doesn't know how to order a hamburger at McDonald's.
- BAD BREATH. I hate it when people with foul breath talk in your face.
Talk
about grossing me out!
- COMPUTERS. I don't understand why people rely on them so much because
they DO
flop out from time to time and you're not thinking for yourself. It seems
that
lately teachers are more concerned about how their students use their
calculators rather than the concepts of the subject. Now what is more
important knowing how to punch in some keys or learning what a fraction
actually is?
- DRIVERS that drive on the sidewalk.
- ENGLISH TEACHERS that deduct a mark off your paper because of one
little typo.
Come on! Like I'm sure you never make any errors on your papers
yourselves!
- FROWNS. Yeah, it's OKAY not to always wear a grin on your face and it
is
actually kind of silly when you have a constant phony ear-to-ear smile but
a
frown isn't good either because it puts other people down even though you
may
not be aware of it. Here's some personal advice: whenever you're having a
bad
day, put your mouth in a neutral horizontal line instead of an arching
frown.
A :| is A LOT better than a :(.
- GARLIC not listed on menu dishes. Some people go to work after lunch.
- HAUGHTY CUSTOMERS who treat sales people like dirt because of the job
title.
Not all the good people in this World are going to be doctors for several
legitiment (I don't know if I spelled it right) reasons so don't be so
prejudice.
- IDIOTS that think that those who make mistakes are idiots. We are
human, we
are not God, and we're suppose to make mistakes. If we never made any
foul
ups, we would never learn.
- JUNK-FOOD-ONLY GROCERY SHOPPING. The food that my Mom buys is 90%
junk and
she's got a chocolate drawer, a potato chips cupboard....Some people want
their
nutrients!
- KITCHENS that are used as hang-outs. There's a reason why dens,
family and
living rooms have been invented.
- LOUD LIBRARIES. If you want to talk, take your books and study in the
caf'.
- MOLD on food.
- NO CLOSINGS when there's freezing rain outside.
- OILY AND DANDRUFF HAIR. Ever heard of shampoo?
- POP-UP WINDOWS. They slow everything down.
- QUESTIONS THAT ARE TRUE OR FALSE. They are too debatable.
- RADIO STATIONS that play a golden-oldie at least nine times a week.
Hearing
an old song that is only played out of the blue makes it a classic because
you
only hear it rarely but playing it regularly can actually make it a
current hit
almost.
- SINGERS with nasal voices.
- TRUCKS and other large vehicles that block the view of the traffic
light.
- UNPLUGGED MUSIC.
- VIEWING only teeny-bopper shows on the tube lately such as Dawson's
Creek.
- WINE DRINKERS who drink at least a bottle of wine everyday.
This is NOT healthy. It's better to get totally blasted once in a while
then
drink everyday.
- X-RAYS taken on my teeth. I hate biting on that huge piece of plastic
that's
riding up towards my gums.
- YOUTHFULNESS that can only be celebrated by those under forty.
ATTENTION!
Not everybody turns old when they turn fifty. Some people don't age till
later
while some have it happen earlier in life. Look at Madonna, Harrison Ford
and
Denise Austin!
- ZOOS that keep their animals locked in wired cages and unmated. They
have
feelings too!
Thanks to Ellie for the next 3 peeves
- UGH!!!! I hate when people SHMACK (chew very loudly) thier gum! They
sound like a cow.
- I also hate when people have thier hands shoved down thier thorat in
order to
bite thier nails
- I also hate when teachers hate to admit they are wrong!
UGH!!!!!!!
Thanks to Jason Gilbert [jason_psu@hotmail.com] for the next 11
peeves
- People who circumisize their boys because it "looks normal." If
your kid is showing his penis to everyone asking if it looks normal...I
think
you have more important things to worry about.
- Girls who say abortion should remain legal because its a "choice."
Does that
mean if I choose to run over someone with my car that should be legal
also?
Come back to me when you have a good arguement.
- These 15 year old's how think they are pimps because they wear their
hats
backward, walk really slow, pronounce all r's as w's, and call everyone
they
see "be-atch."
- Vegetarians who are so self rightgous. It's called the food chain.
look it
up.
- Guys in movie theaters who get cell phone calls and proceed to talk
for 5
minutes, then they get pissed at me when I throw my popcorn and coke at
them.
Some people are so rude.
- Guys who constantly spit. I am a guy and I only spit when I have a
cold or
flu and evern then I FIND A DAMN BATHROOM!!!!
- People in line for the movies that who wait until they are at the
ticket
counter and say, "Hmmmmm I wonder which one we should see." Beside before
you
get there moron.
- Parents that brag about their kids "pooping in the potty" like its a
great
feat. Yeah I think your got the next Einstein there.
- When I go out to eat and people tell me my smoking is gonna kill me
then
they order a steak with french fries with bacon on the side and a beer.
Smoking
is healthy...it cleans out the lungs.
- People who live in a democracy and exspect us to tax the rich to death
and
give all the money to the poor. Thats called socialism. If you like it so
much
I would buy you a one way ticket to China.
- Alec Baldwin, Norman Lear, Richard Drefus, Davud Geffin, That chick
from
the Practice, Barbara Streisand, and Whopie Goldberg . Do I need a reason?
Thanks to "A disgruntled West Virginian" for the next 4 peeves
- Ignorant people who don't know that the state of West Virginia
actually exists. Yes folks, it's on the map.
- Once people find out you're from West Virginia, they ask you, "You
guys
wear shoes? Do you have indoor plumbing, electricity, and television?"
(For
all of you wondering about the shoes: when a West Virginian leaves the
state,
he/she recieves a pair of shoes. However, when we come back, we must turn
our
shoes in. It's the Foot Law.) :)
- No, not all West Virginians are related.
- I for one do not chew "backy", carry around a shotgun, or sleep with
my
relatives.
Thanks to DeathSteed@aol.com for the next 3 peeves
- 10,000 people using the network for porno, so when I try to get work
done, I get mad lag.
- People who don't understand that things are JUST A GAME, (ie
LaserTag, LARPs,
other high stress games.) and fight about it.
- People. All people. I hate when they talk to me, or do anything, cuz
it annoys me. Just leave me alone for 10 minutes!
Thanks to Melissa T again for the next 8 peeves!
- People who talk about how "sneaky" cats are. What do they do
that's "sneaky?" Cheat on their income tax? Switch price tags in stores?
Perjure themselves under oath than lie about it before millions of other
felines? (now, that would be CATastrophic)! They slink around like that
because they're solitary hunters that have to use stealth and caution --
not
like dogs, who hunt in packs.
- People who give their kids absurd and/or unpronounceable names, such
as
Semaj (James spelled backwards) Noelcleisha, Babe (like the pig) or Two
(like
the number). Then they get mad when you don't know if the kid's a boy or
a
girl! Stupid names like this should be considered a form of child abuse!
It
also annoys me when people misspell my name or call me something besides
my
name -- I've been called Muriel, Michelle, Margaret, and anything else
beginning with an "M", which is really annoying, since "Melissa" is a
fairly
common name (especially for women under 25 or so). In fact, there's so
many of
us I was thinking of organizing a Million Melissa March (we want a Melissa
in
the White House)! but I'm too busy organizing the Million Mark March for
my
husband (do you realize we've never had a president named Mark?)
- People at work who put everything on disk, don't back them up on the
hard
drive, then bug me about finding the lost information!
- "Sexy" clothes that are uncomfortable as hell (such as thong panties,
push-up bras, garter belts, stiletto heels, etc.). The people that design
these instruments of torture should be forced to wear them, non-stop, for
a
week!
- Pantyhose. They run all the time, they're not that comfortable, and
they're expensive (the drugstore kind runs in about two minutes after you
but
them on). Ever try wearing pantyhose in 90 degree weather? It's like you
stepped in the La Brea tar pits. I REALLY dislike "control top"
pantyhose --
I call them "torture tops!" They should be banned, or at least
classified as
a form of cruel and unusual punishment. Yeah, so I have a gut -- let the
fat
fall where it may!
- People who say others are "stupid" because they make spelling/grammar
mistakes on message boards, etc. Everybody makes speling misttakes sum
time --
doesnt meen your stoopid!!
- Victoria's Secret -- their clothing looks nice in the catalog, but
when you
actually receive it, you can tell it's poorly made. I'd rather see them
stop
spending all that money on "supermodels" and buy some good quality fabric.
- Stores with average looking clothing at above-average prices -- e.g.,
J.
Crew, The Gap, Banana Republic, etc.
Thanks to Branden McGee for the next 2 peeves
- People who think that bribes are necessary to get others to pitch in
and help out.
- People who act like total jerks, and when you get upset at them, they
look at
you with a puzzled look and ask "What's your problem?"
- My
biggest pet peeve is poor spelling, and it usually accompanies poor
thinking, as evidenced by
the spelling of your detractors in the hate mail. But, perhaps my worst
pet peeve of all is the
practice of forming of a plural by using an apostrophe. It will be a sad
day indeed when
Merriam-Webster enshrines this carelessness as newly correct
grammar!
Paul T
--Added 03/16/99-------
- My pet peeve is.........Lazy people who park in handicapped parking
spots. They are there for a reason!!! The reason being handicapped folks.
Laziness is not a handicapp, it is simply an annoyance. Get a life and be
fair. You wouldn't be so happy if someone took over something that was meant for
you would you?!!!! Well, then back off and let the people who really need
those spots have them. Quit being so pathetically lazy!!!
DeeDee
- People that get right up on your bumper when you're driving. Hey, am I
not going fast enough for you? I can go 15 miles per hour if you want me
to.
Scott [sctibbs@yahoo.com]
Thanks to L. Adams [lindor2000@hotmail.com] for the next 7 peeves
- Ultra-conservatives.
- Ultra-liberals.
- Collge GTAs who can't speak English, who are teaching the hardest
subjects
in the world, who get frustrated at YOU. (Isn't the core of teaching
COMMUNICATION?!
- People who make up stories to sound interesting, and when you ask them
a question about it they say, "I don't remeber," or they take a long time
to answer.
- How it takes 2 weeks to build a new McDonalds and 2 years to repave
the road in front of my house.
- People who stand too close to you when they are talking.
- People who get offended at everything. They aren't attacking YOU!
--Added 03/14/99-------
- People who think Brazil is a Spanish-speaking country. They
speak PORTUGUESE!!!
- Doktor Eisenbart
[beldin@mindspring.com]
- My pet peeve is people like Ian (peeves farther down) who think that
drugs are ok and people who speak out against them are liars. Smoking is bad, but marijuana is worse. Ever heard of "mental
addiction". I'll bet he smokes pot, there has to be a reason he's so brain
dead.
Jason L [Jaslan9358@aol.com]
--Added 03/11/99-------
Thanks to "Anon" for the next 9 peeves
- Neighbors who talk loudly, laugh, MAKES ALL KINDS OF NOISES,
plays the same music all throughout the night. Some people actually like
to sleep at night.
- People that stink.
- People with nasty breath.
- People who think they are the smartest.
- People who make hasty judgements about shy people, assuming they are
stuck up & or dumb.
- Trendy people.
- Rude & obnoxious sales people, that ignore you when you walk
into a store. You're working retail, get off the f****ing high horse.
- Women that act totally different in front of guys. Acting like brainless & silly schoolgirls.
- People that think that they own the right to listen to a certain
genre of music, just because they dig it. Then judge you for not dressing
the part. If only they knew how ridiculous they look.
- I can't stand it when a you go to a drive thru window like Wendy's
and the person at the window acts like it is a chore to do their job. It
is not my fault that they are unhappy doing what they are doing. People
should try and make the best out of whatever situation they are in. If your not
happy flipping burgers then get another job!!
- Courtney
[Courtney@f-a-s-t.neT]
Thanks again to Melissa T for the next 8 peeves!
- People who say "oh, smile baby," "smile, it's not that bad" or
some other such stupid thing when you're just walking down the street or
otherwise minding your own business. I guess they're just trying to be
nice, but this is irritating. Maybe I'm not smiling because a) I have a
migraine, a
toothache and cramps all at the same time; b) my cat was just run over
by a Mack truck; c) I just don't FEEL LIKE SMILING!
- Like Maureen, I agree that it's annoying to hear statements about
"white people". Which white people do you mean? Rich folks on Park Avenue? Po'
white folks in Appalachia? And she's right -- the British and Irish are
both white and have been at each others' throats for centuries!!
- Ditto for remarks about "Hispanics". There's black Hispanics, white
Hispanics, even some Spanish-speaking Asians (there are quite a few
Japanese, for example, in Brazil). There's Cubans, Mexicans, Filipinos,
etc., all who have different cultures and even different Spanish dialects
-- they're not a
separate race of people! And all Hispanics aren't poor and living in "el
barrio!"
- People that act like you're nuts if you don't worship The Big Wormy
Apple (New York City). Yeah, it's the center of the arts, fashion, the media,
etc., but I STILL hate it.
- White (and black) liberals who scream about how awful school vouchers
are but send their kids to the most exclusive private schools they can find.
For example, Norman Lear, founder of the ultra-liberal People For the
American Way
and a major voice against vouchers. Betcha HE didn't send his kid to P.S.
100!
- People who walk their mean dawgs (pit bulls, etc.) without a leash.
- Movies such as "Pretty Woman" that glamorize prostitution. This is a
terrible way to make a living -- prostitutes are often beaten, raped, and
even killed. Very few meet a rich guy who looks like Richard Gere and takes
them away from all that.
- People who talk about how abortion is a "private decision" but then
want public monies to pay for it.
Thanks to Doktor Eisenbart [beldin@mindspring.com] for the next 4
peeves!
- People like Maureen who think someone is racist for preferring the
company of their own kind. (btw: the rest of your peeves were great! this
one was just a little off base.)
- Also, people who misuse the word racism. Look it up. It means the
belief that one race is inherently superior to the others. Most people use it
interchangeably w/ prejudice and/or bigoted. That's WRONG, WRONG,
WRONG!!!!
- Black people who are more racist than Hitler, but think they can't
POSSIBLY be racist b/c they're black! (That means YOU, Louis Farrakhan! (did I spell
that right?))
- MTV! What a bunch of idiots! And they don't even PLAY MUSIC anymore!
It should be called BSTV.
--Added 03/10/99-------
- When people keep up their Christmas decorations up for a long time.
What do they not know that Christmas is over or are they to lazy to take
them
down.
- Vicki [howardv@excite.com]
- I hate having to pay big bucks for popcorn at the movies and then
finding out you've got the bottom of the barrel after you've sit down to
enjoy
the movie!!
- Fred
Thanks to Maureen for the next 25 peeves!
- Idiots like Ian who insist that pot doesn't do any harm so
therefore it must be ok-umm, has Ian ever researched the negative effects
of
marijuana?
- People who smoke ANYTHING at a concert where the ticket and venue have
stated it is not allowed. It is very inconsiderate to others with
respiratory
problems or allergies, and hey they paid their ticket as well!
- Cars that honk at me or creep up on me when i am crossing the street
because
they want me to run across so they don't lose one second
- People who are waiting for someone and honk the horn incessantly. Get
off
your ass and knock on the door!
- Girls who act all proud that they are sexually active like it is some
sort
of achievement
- Anyone who spits or coughs up bile on streets, and makes a loud
hacking
noise before they do it, too. I really wanna track THAT into my house!
- Men who piss on buildings and trees and behind open car doors without
even
*trying* to conceal what they are doing
- People who call me "intolerant" because I disagree with them
- Employers who are screw ups but expect you to be perfect
- Movie theatres that aren't dark enough, or has a screen the size of a
TV
- SPAM that starts with, "This isn't SPAM so nyah!:P" GRR!
- White people who say they are not racist but send their kids to
private
schools and live in predominantly white neighborhoods
- I hate how the term "white" is used to encompass hundreds of different
cultures, some of which HATE each other!
- When people write "your" when they should write "you're" You're = You
are
and your means belonging to you
- Websites that ask you to register and when you do you start receiving
SPAM!
(Thanks very much www.petz.com you bastards!)
- I hate the fact that the governmaent has hired many immigrants for
federal
jobs in the postal Service but they don't know jack about Geography. Train
them, at least!! How do you expect them to know where everything goes?
- I hate people who have been in the USA for years and still refuse to
learn
enough english to take a telephone message
- I hate when someone's accent is so thick I can't understand them and
they
get mad at ME!
- People who say they believe in "Freedom Of Speech" but then tell
Christians
they shouldn't speak at all
- Nudity in film, it is embarrassing!
- people who accuse me of having "something wrong with" my sexuality
just
because I don't enjoy looking at other women naked. I am heterosexual
thank you
and it's not my bag, baby. If you want nudity rent a porno!
- WebTV Networks who fired me because I commented to soemone that a girl
was
playing loud reggae music and did ot like it. They told me I was a racist!
(She
should have stayed in her own cube then, and BTW my own cubemate was a
black
guy and we got along fine! I just can't work with music on, and I dislike
reggae sheeesh! Talk about intolerance, WebTV!
- When I answer the phone with , "hello?" and the person on the other
end
says, "Who's This?"
- My landlord who never fixes jack shite, stole money from me by hooking
my
apartment up to the basement's electricity so I got to pay for the family
downstairs, who refused to fix my windows after vandals shot it with BB
guns,
who refuses to get an exterminator, who installed a tiny water tank so I
can't
even fill the bathtub halfway before the water gets cold AND WHO Raised
the
rent to 900 dollars last month!! AND SHE IS ON MEDICAID, gets food stamps,
and
has a bunch of sons and a husband who works!
- when i report people like my landlord to the authorities and they
always
say, "We can't do anything about it"
Thanks to Marc [kalah@connect.net] for the next 3 peeves
- People who summon the elevator to go down from the second floor.
- People who call you on the phone and then sing the song blaring on
their radio instead of talking to you.
- Drivers who cut in front of you to get one car length ahead in
traffic. They don't get anywhere faster. They just slow everyone else
down.
--Added 03/04/99-------
- i hate people who stand in line for their movie tickets and they
don't know what movie their watching and it holds up the line.
[saroeunc@hotmail.com]
- My car dying - again! At least it died on my street and not on the
highway!
- People who can't go a day without being rude or insulting someone.
--Added 03/01/99-------
- This is to the Dave that thinks older people whine about the younger
generation and think that a debt a gratitude is owed. Hey toughguy, you
need to grow up a little. Didn't your parents teach you to respect your
elders? If
they didn't, well no suprise, but maybe you shpuld think about what your
forefathers have done for you. Oh that's right, you probably slept
through history class. People like you give generation xers like myself a bad
name. Grow up and quit whining about how tough your own miserable existence is.
Dave [dsmith103@hotmail.com]
- The Left... err grlls copying off of RIGHTGuyz
"Rad" - Rightguyz
- People who excuse rape and say the woman "asked for it".
--Added 02/25/99-------
- When a crappy "singer" who relies on shock value to sell his music
such as, oh, Marilyn Manson, gets nominated for a grammy (or was it 2?),
yet excellent bands such as KoRn get completely left out. WTF? KoRn is
starting a rebirth for heavy metal! Manson is just a moronic SOB with no talent!
Doktor Eisenbart [beldin@mindspring.com]
- Completely totally CLUELESS IDIOTS like Dave below. Go see Saving
Private Ryan then come back and tell us that we young people dont owe
those guys a HUGE DEBT of gratitude!!!!!
Michelle
- People who will stand in line for 5 to 20 minutes, get to the
counter, wait for all their items to be rung up, THEN begin to write out
the check. The least you can do ahead of time is DATE it for god's sake!
Lisa in Athens
- People who insist upon digging through their purse, then their wallet,
then their pockets, then their partner's pockets for a penny when they have a
perfectly good nickle in their hand.
Lisa in Athens
Thanks to Kelley [gazelle_sunday@unforgettable.com] for the next 7
peeves!
- People who yell and scream at their children in public, and then
wonder why their kids are so miserable and whiny. The parents are the ones
embarrassing themselves, not the kids!
- Kids who completely disrespect their parents, but still expect thousands
of dollars worth of material items, as if they're just entitled to it simply
because they exist.
- College students who don't know how to flush a toilet.
- Kids who call in bomb threats to their schools (and don't understand why
it's not funny!).
- Webpage pop-up ads, javascripts, and background music. No offense, but
it's annoying and it crashes my computer!
- When I'm in class and some guy (it's always a guy) takes up half the time
rambling on and on in an attempt to sound oh-so-intellectual. Ooh, big
words! We're SO impressed!
- When people are too lazy to throw their garbage away in the dining hall,
leaving us dishwashers to deal with it.
- The people that benefit from the government most, never pay one
cent to taxes.
Nanette Winfield - Texas [nwinfield@pdq.net]
- Why have I not received one thank you note from not one welfare
receipient after all these years of support from my taxes.
Nanette Winfield - Texas [nwinfield@pdq.net]
Thanks to Melissa for the next 7 peeves!
- Guys who sit on the bus with their legs two feet apart so nobody
can sit next to them.
- Running for the bus and the SOB bus driver SEES you running and leaves
you anyway.
- Getting up late for work, throwing on any old thing, and getting to
your job and discovering that your clothes have stains/cat hairs on them.
- I have two cats and a dog and it irritates me when people come to
visit and say they don't like animals. Hey, you should have told me before and I
wouldn't have asked you over!
- When my dog (a chihuahua mix) jumps on the table and licks up crumbs.
- When my cat jumps on my lap when I'm trying to read a book or write
something.
- Cats/dogs that puke and you don't discover it until you step on it!!
- Girls who whine and bitch about being fat, and then eats at Taco
Bell every other day.
Dave [bodies@ksu.edu]
- Selfish old people who think the younger generation owes them a
debt of gratitude for serving in the war or doing manual hard labor,
thinking that they helped "shape" this country, when in actuallity they were
just working. Like anyone else today. Stop your whining!!!
Dave
[bodies@ksu.edu]
--Added 02/18/99-------
- When people wear black shoes with blue pants!
- Erin
Thanks to Wayne [coughtry@usa.net] for the next 3 peeves
- People drive to slow in the passing lane.
- Organizations that Go out of their way to indicate that they promote,
encourage, espouse Family Values...What are single people?..Problems for
Society.
--Added 02/16/99-------
- Ex-girlfriends who don't have the courtesy to say goodbye the last
time they see you
- RH
Thanks to Melanie [Melanie772@aol.com] for the next 5 peeves!
- People like "Jim C" (below) who post horrible things on webpages,
but won't send mail directly to the person in question, and won't post his
email address, the coward!!! And just because I think I am good looking doesn't
mean I am stuck up, I know there is a lot more to beauty than on the outside.
- Junk e-mail with a subject that sounds like you know the person, then you open
it, and you see more X's than you can count!!!
- People who don't believe in turn signals.
- Customer service reps who act like you are an interuption of their job, rather
than the purpose of it!
- People that are never in even a remotely good mood.
- When you have to share a computer with 50 other people at work and
someone constantly alters the settings or else adds some cute screen saver or
some other obnoxious crap that screws up the applications I use! Why can't
they just leave it alone? It isn't theirs to screw around with!
- Matt [lbftaylor@yahoo.com]
Thanks to Melissa T for the next 7 peeves
- Black people who throw around the "n" word all the time and then
are outraged when white people use it.
- Goofy guys who walk around with their pants hanging off their behinds
(like, I really want to see your butt crack and want kind of underwear you have
on).
- Disgusting, creepy perverts in their 20's, 30's, and even older who try to
pick up 13 year old girls.
- People who let their stupid dawgs crap all over the place and get mad if
you ask them (nicely) to clean it up.
- Nose pickers who flick their boogies or else wipe them on some hard surface
(bathroom walls seem to popular).
- People who call people "fat" when they're not "fat" at all (e.g., Kate
Winslet). Kate Winslet is GORGEOUS and has a curvy, womanly figure. Not
everyone wants to be a walking pencil like Calista Lockhart. Personally, I
don't think protruding collarbones and ribs are attractive.
- People who are always talking about how "ugly" someone else is when THEY
look like something that the cat dragged in (i.e., Don Imus, Joan Rivers, Howard Stern).
- People who use the net to be who or what there aren't. I have met so many
phonies on the net that I am sick and tired of the B.S. I have gone from being
a chaanel manager on the Undernet (IRC) to avoiding meeting people on the net
(IRC, ICQ, Iphone). If you want to get to know me then go to my site at
http://www.2scotts.com and see who I am.This is no peeve rather an opinion of
mine based on over 4 years of being on the net.
- Scott Hubick [hubicks@dlcwest.com]
- I am total peeved at people who send me via ICQ one of those "fvriend" pages.
If yolu are one of those people that forward those page maybe you should go to
the ultimate "Friend" page
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/8124/icq.html (LOL)
- Scott Hubick [hubicks@dlcwest.com]
- People who call themselves vegetarian but eat chicken, fish, and
deli meat in their sandwiches.
- Caprice
- Am I the only person who objects to companies pledging a percentage
of the cost of merchandise to some charity they prefer? Makes the company sound
altruistic but that's my money they're using, pal. Give me the 1% or 5% or
whatever and let me donate to charity of MY choice (and deduct it from MY
taxes)if you please.
- Wynne [wynne1@mediaone.net]
- Also, attention tailgaters, picture this: There are 30 cars in line ahead of
me and you insist on driving six feet from my back bumper. I can't go any
faster but I promise I will slow down to leave more room between my front bumper and the car ahead of me to
give me more time to react in an emergency.
- Wynne [wynne1@mediaone.net]
--Added 02/11/99-------
Thanks to Linde [mertlace@aol.com] for the next 8 peeves
- Many, many, many busy signals from attempting to go online with AOL.
I mean 20 or 30 times, buzz, buzz, buzz. Then when you write them they
apparently have a prefabricated answer and send you a survey--never
addressing the question. damn!
- Toothpaste sans a cap
- Friends who aren't happy for your accomplishments--only your
downfalls!
- Damn milk container wings that stick together forcing you to open the
wrong end and then hear someone tell you "why you opened the wrong end!"
- People that get vicious in their postings. come on people, this isn't
war here. just words--be passionate not murderous!
- The new stamps that self-stick--great for your tongue, however if one
should position them wrong, they are the postal equal of fly paper and bye
bye envelope and stamp.
- Those cheap air freshners (only bought because they were out of the
solids) with the holes and the solid or so they tell you jell. never get
an old one--the jell will slime out onto furniture, clothing, floors, YOU!
- That ad on tv that asks if the parent had made time or something to
that effect for their child. the ad has a basketball with a note and the
child says "Yo mom what's up?" why a black child? It just seems so
racist to me (and no I am not Black). I have never seen that ad done with
any other race of child--sends a bad message and reinforces negative
sterotypes--wonder if the Black community is as offended by it as
me?
--Added 02/08/99-------
- Idiot parents and teachers who lie to kids about drugs (i.e.
marijuana is addictive) and then expect that, when the kids get older and
smarter and realize that they've been lied to, the kids will still respect
them. Are you people blind? Can't you see that kids aren't sponges for
your obvious lies?
- Ian [ihatcher@class.unl.edu]
- People who are against marijauna legalization. You
know, smoking is more dangerous than pot, and it actually IS addictive. You'd
think that the products of the 60s would be more open-minded.
- Ian
[ihatcher@class.unl.edu]
- my pet peeve is when people in a movie doesn't do what you say.For
example,when someone is behind another in a movie you say look behind you
and he dosen't thats what my pet peeve is. If anyone has some advice
e-mail me, because i'm doing a report.Please!!!!
- Jeanette [
Daizy17607ahotmail.com]
Thanks to Doktor Eisenbart for the next 5 peeves
- people who don't wash their hands after using the bathroom. That is
SICK.
- gutless news shows that won't show the story about Jane Doe #5 (ahem,
NBC!).
- people who think society ows them something because they won't get a
job
- women who dress in a provacative manner (ie low cut blouses where you
can see their boobs, shorts/skirts so short you can see everything, anything
see-through, and anything so tight that their body is outlined perfectly),
and yet get mad when men look at them! Sheesh, what do you expect, when you
let us see you practically naked?
- socialist campus newspapers
- People who submit peeves with gross language and then whine
when I cut out the part that is disgusting. (referring to the male
chauvanist below). Most people would have just not posted the peeve - I
left most of it but just cut out some gross parts. I rarely do that but I
did in this case. Now people are asking
why I called him a chauvanist. Fine - here is the part I cut out from
the peeve (4 down from this one).
"The pain of looking in her mirror and seeing her wrinkled
face, hanging turkey wattles, gnarled hooked fingers, breasts like
withered leather bags, and sagging, cellulite-
pocked butt will be all the stronger. As she lays in her
stinking, urine soaked bed and croaks weakly for a sponge
bath to relieve her roach-infested bedsores, she will
endure the disgusted expression of her young, handsome
male nurse." - Jim G.
There. Now Jim and everyone should be happy that his whole peeve is
there.
- People who label others "Male Chauvinists" simply because
they point out a clearly annoying quality in some stuck
up women. I guess you can't say anything bad about a woman
without being branded a woman-hater.
Jim G.
- People who run "Pet Peeve" websites, ask for submissions
and then cut out parts of what you have to say. This is
the last time I view this website. Goodbye from the
"Male Chauvinist" who dared to say something bad about
a "Womyn". Womyn good, Men bad!
Jim G.
--Added 02/05/99-------
- Male chauvinists like the one who submitted the peeve right below
this, who then whine and wail when I remove some of the really gross stuff
from the peeve.
- Stuck-up girls like Melanie below, who think they're
all that. She's probably not as hot as she thinks, but
if she is, she's not satisfied with the blessing of being
born beautiful. She has to begrudge some poor old codger
the simple pleasure of admiring her beauty. It boosts her
ego to proclaim that she's so hot, and they're so ugly,
that they don't even have the right to look at her.
Meanwhile, if it was a handsome stud, or an ugly but super-
rich guy, it would be a different story. I can't wait until
she's old, stringy and dried-out, and nobody looks at her.
- Jim
G.
- Nothing is worse than walking into the bathroom at work and seeing a
big turd floating around in the toilet, and to see that no one has
bothered to replace the toilet paper and paper towels.
- Sam
- I HATE when you are on a diet, and you go to TASTE something that
isn't on your diet (taste - not gorge on - *taste*) - when you have barely
eaten ALL DAY and have been almost perfect for the past 2 weeks on your
diet, and people sneer and say "Gee - should you be eating that?
Don't complain later, etc" I HATE THAT!! Don't people know that
that is the MOST ANNOYING thiing to do to someone?!
Thanks to Melissa T for the next 10 peeves!
- People who hate cats because they're "lazy" -- I mean, what are
they supposed to do? Get a job? Join an aerobics class? They're CATS!
- People who hate dogs because "they bite" -- usually they don't attack
people unless they're doing something to 'em!
- Idiots who drive down the street in convertibles blaring obnoxious
music (rap, metal - sorry, Caroline) -- listen to that drivel at home!
- People who ask "when did you last have it?" when you lost something
-- if you knew where you last had it, it wouldn't be lost, now would it?
The next peeves relate to the joys of public transportation for those
of us who vehicularly challenged (too poor to buy a car)
- I hate it when you take the wrong bus or train (the 88 instead of the
58 for example) and are absolutely lost, then the bus or train driver gives
you some complex directions like: "Go east o' the sun and west o' the moon to
the Fountain of Eternal Fear, pay homage to the Beast of the East, climb the
Unscalable Mountain, and at the top you will find the 58 bus stop."
- People who do inappropriate or disgusting things on the bus like
masturbating, rolling joints, having sex (oral), having sex ("real") --
yes, these things DO happen.
- What about when you're waiting in the rain for a bus and a car comes
by and splashes you on purpose - that is SOOO funny!
- Creepy men who holler out stupid things while you're standing at the
bus stop.
- People who put their books, etc. on the seat next to them so no one
can sit down -- I mean, did your damn backpack pay for a seat????
- Sitting down on a crowded bus and then someone stands next to you so
that their crotch or butt is at the exact same level as your face.
- Litttle whiny cry-baby sissies who sit around watching Alley Mcbeal
and being sensitive
[porterbj@jmu.edu]
--Added 02/02/99-------
Thanks to Angie [muchattitude@mailexcite.com] for the next 8 peeves
- People who pick their nose while driving instead of while in the
privacy of a restroom.
- People who look at what they've picked from their nose.
- People that spit where others have to walk.
- People who make that "hock" sound before spitting.
- People who drive ragedy cars and talk on cell phones at the same time!
- People who find it necessary to let you know they have a friend who
is your race!
- Two-faced people.
- People who wear a belt and suspenders at the same time!
Thanks to Melanie [Melanie772@aol.com] for the next 3 peeves
- People in front of me in the Drive Thru at McDonald's who specify
their order "to go".
- People who think they are too good to drive the right way in parking
lots.
- Nasty, ratty, middle-aged men who stare when I walk by, as if they
have ever had a woman in their LIFE!!
Thanks to Michelle for the next 4 peeves
- People who shamelessly advertise their web sites.
- Scrollers in chat rooms....grow up.
- When you click on a link after a search and get that stupid URL not
found message.
- Men who pout when they dont get any....we women dont OWE you sex
buster.
- Well...snuck is actually considered a word. It was added to the new
dictionary this year
- Paige
--Added 02/01/99-------
- Angelfire.
- People who copy and paste their pet peeves from other people's peeve
pages (LOL) Duh!
- People who take any type of disagreeing comment and call it
harassment.
- People wail about things you do and then they do the exact same thing!
- Jealous people :)
- When people talk about nebulous unnamed kids as "little Johnny" or
"little Suzi." Where have people been for the last 20 years? Nobody names
their kids Johnny or Suzi anymore, for crying out loud. BTW, my web-site is
http://members.aol.com/shsnj/stevejones.html
-
Steve Jones [shsnj@excite.com]
- I cannot stand old boyfriends, who you were glad to get rid of in
the first place, that suddenly show up at your front door, wanting "to see
how you are doing after all these years." And how come the guys you really
liked disappear forever, never to be seen again? The other thing that really
bugs me
are people who try to incite a war over whether a dog is better than a
cat, or vice versa. Usually these kind of people have no life
anyway.
Lisa
- I hate when people start a whole long whine baby story with, "Don't
be offended, but...." and then continue to be totally offensive. And when
you
ARE offended, they click their tongue and say, "I TOLD you not to be
offended...." and can't believe you are anyway.
I also hate when people END a whine session with, "I'm not flaming
anyone..."
PEOPLE! Weak disclaimers at the end or beginning of your ranting isn't
gonna cut it! "Ma'am, please don't be offended, but your baby is butt ugly. I mean, I'm
not
trying to offend you but... ever think of diapering both ends?!?"
- Laurel [lemacd@ivillage.com]
- YOU KNOW WHAT MY PEEVE IS? LISTENING TO OTHER PEOPLE'S PEEVES!
- "Rudegirl"
Thanks to Melissa T for the next 4 peeves
- I can relate to the pet peeves about daycare centers because I used
to be a preschool teacher. I used to get irritated by:
a. Parents who bring in their kids as sick as dawg (fevers of 103,
dripping
green snot) and then get an attitude when you call them to pick the kid
up. Then you get sick and have to stay home, and of course in many day care
centers
the teachers have no benefits or sick days, so you lose money!
b. Parents who would bring their kids in wet or poopy.
c. News reporters/papers that talk about daycare horror stories -- these
are the exception; most daycare workers are dedicated individuals who make
about $7.00 an hour (and that's with a college degree!!)
d. Daycare centers too cheap to buy basic supplies and equipment, so the
teachers end up buying stuff themselves because they're sick of the
bathrooms smelling like pee and not having any materials to do craft projects with.
e. Politicians talking about tax breaks for parents with kids in day
care! I don't have a problem with this, but for godsakes, start paying daycare
providers a livable wage and giving them some basic benefits -- then there
wouldn't be a turnover rate of 35%!
f. Having to give kids prescription medicine -- hey, we're not nurses!
I don't have anything against unions, but I get sick of some of their
greedy leaders always complaining. During the UPS strike, I found out
that the drivers make about $21.00 an hour. Now why I am, a college graduate,
supposed to feel sorry for these semi-skilled workers making almost twice as much
as I am??
- I don't have anything against unions, but I get sick of some of their
greedy leaders always complaining. During the UPS strike, I found out
that the
drivers make about $21.00 an hour. Now why I am, a college graduate,
supposed
to feel sorry for these semi-skilled workers making almost twice as much
as I
am??
- People who sit on public transportation talking very LOUDLY about 1)
their illegal activities (drug use, stealing, etc.) 2) sexual exploits, etc.,
and other obnoxious things.
- Those stupid, waste-of-time shows they put on before they Superbowl --
they're just a way for John Madden to make even more money, as if he
doesn't have enough. Just show the damn game!
Thanks to Kit for the next 6 peeves
- People such as Mahogany (postings below) who complain about
people being stupid and are too stupid themselves to use the right word
such as 'their' when it should be 'they're'; or 'snuck' (no such word)when it
should be 'sneaked' and 'your' instead of the contraction 'you're' when the word
'are' is required for sense.
- Places of business with solid handicap parking across the front of
the store; all or almost all the spaces are always empty. It's just
ridiculously
out of control.
- Newer parking lots with the new, narrow, dinky parking spaces. Not
everybody drives a goddamned Dixie Cup.
- Anybody who spouts politically correct euphimisms. It's just
horsesh*t and it's nauseating.
- Uninformed voters. They're dangerous and should stay home.
- People who whiningly say, "Well, I have a right to my own opinion."
Not if you don't have a clue about the real subject matter or one single byte
of data in your empty head, you don't. Keep your stupid mouth shut and your
ears open.
--Added 01/25/99-------
- People who use DejaNews to post usenet messages, and fail to remove
even the most irrelevent portions of quoted text. How difficult is it to "click -
drag - delete"?
- Mike
Thanks to Kaylon for the next 4 peeves!
- People who have been warned to lock their car doors and who don't
that bitch and whine about their cd player being stolen out of their car.
- Customers who stare. I can't fill your presciption any faster while you're
staring at me like I'm in a zoo. 3. Customers who don't give me their new
insurance cards BEFORE I fill their presciptions. That means I have to go
back and redo it and other customers have to wait longer and STARE!
- How come if you happen to be nice to a male customer, he acts like you're coming on to
him?
- OLD men who come in to get prescriptions for Viagra. 5. People on
Medicaid (that get their prescriptions practically free) that come up to the
pharmacy drive-thru window in big, expensive family vans and new
cars.
--Added 01/24/99-------
- Men with long nails - Ewww!
- Maryann
- My pet peeve is people dumping their infants and toddlers into day
care and pretending that this is good for their kids just because their kids
haven't run away from home. yet. my absolute peeviest peeve is the
people who bring their kids to day care in 30K+ plus vehicles and lament
that they HAVE to work to get by - especially those people who come home
and gel hours before they pick up their kids at day care.
it's only the state of the nation at stake; day care produces higher
numbers of aggressive, stupid, antisocial kids. oh well.
-
jasto
http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/Garden/2010
- People who tell someone next to me the most boring inane story and
then when they are done, turn around and tell me the same d*** story
- [violete69@hotmail.com ]
- Democracies get me because the rich get richer and the poor are
left to fend for themslef.
- SS
- Oh yeah and junk mail of any description, uses too many tress to make
a pile of well you know in the bins.
- SS
- When "it's that time of the month" and I sneeze my tampon out.
- mahagony25 [mahagony24@aol.com]
- People who don't know their stupid.
- mahagony25
[mahagony24@aol.com]
- People who know their stupid and act it. example: I have a friend who
is so stupid she locked herself out the house, climbed in the window to
get her keys, clkimbed back out the window and inlocked the door, instead
of just coming out the door.
- mahagony25
[mahagony24@aol.com]
- Women who say they want to meet and date a nice guy, then hook up
with the first smooth-talking bullshit artist that tells them all the
right
lies.
- Steve
- The fact that human male castration is actually *illegal* in all 50
states. I can see why involuntary castration might be illegal, but
voluntary too??
- Steve
- That it's more important to be popular than it is to be right.
- Steve
- I can't stand runners that keep their feet moving while waiting for
a red light to change - forgodsake what are they trying to prove? I gauge
my
speed to "get" a red light so I can hang on to the nearest pole and hope
for a long cycle!
- evelyn [ee@ee-world.com]
- Oh, and yes, scuba divers that have no control, bopping up and down,
cling to you, kick like mad to get who knows where, and then want to surface in 25
minutes because they are out of air.
- evelyn [ee@ee-world.com]
- Not knowing if someone likes you for you or for the way you
look
- rozebuddd
--Added 01/21/99-------
- I really hate it when people lick their fingers to make it easier
for them to thumb through pieces of paper. That is really unsanitary;
besides, why do you think there is a such thing as "Tacky-Finger".
- Angie [muchattitude@mailexcite.com]
- This phone conversation really irritates me:
(Phone rings)
Me: "Hello"
Them: "Hello"
Me: "Hello"
Them: "Hello"
This goes on for a while and I finally yell, "Who would you like to speak
with?"
Them: "You"
Me: "Why didn't you just ask! in the first place!"
- Angie [muchattitude@mailexcite.com]
- I wish my roommate would quit sucking face with her boyfriend right in
front of me. It's disgusting.
- "CheezyPoof"
--Added 01/17/99-------
- My pet peeve, and I know it has happened to just about everybody:
Paper towel dispensers in public restrooms. Why are they installed at just
the right height, so that when you reach up to pull down the paper towel , the
water runs back down your arms?
- Dena
Thanks to Cheri for the next 4
peeves!
- You're in the middle of updating your web page and your computer
locks up (usually so bad you have to turn it off and back on again at the
power strip to reboot)and you lose all of the work you've done.(Guess what
happened to me SEVERAL times today?)
- Going to a web page that has an error or some kind of script that crashes
your browser. Which makes you lose everything in your system tray. Which means
you have to reboot to get it all back.
- Answering the phone and hearing a recorded voice saying, "Please hold for
important information." If it's that important, hire a human being to make
your phone calls!
- Calls like the ones above, only their computer isn't working right so when
you answer the phone you hear a couple of beeps and then it hangs up on
you.
Thanks to Melissa T for the next 3 peeves!
- Lousy calls by NFL officials, such as Seattle @ Jets, Bills @
Pats -- you football fans will know what I mean. Bring back the instant
replay!
- Rich sports team owners who want public monies to pay for stadiums --
if this isn't corporate welfare, I don't know what is. This is especially
annoying when the sports teams in question are lousy (e.g., Jeff Lurie,
owner of the 3-13 Philadelphia Eagles, the cheap Rooney family, owner of the 7-9
Pittsburgh Steelers). They should do what the Cook family did for their
(former) lousy team, the Washington Redskins -- pay for a stadium with
their OWN MONEY!
- People who hurt/kill animals. Here a sicko punk poured gasoline on a
kitten and set it on fire! The sad thing is, these psychos often
"graduate" to hurting people.
- US CAPITAL BELTWAY!!!!
- P. [pwooton@hotmail.com]
- All of those wacky activist people who yell insipid comments like
"meat is murder" or "save the whales". For one thing, if you threw an
activistin a cage with a large, preadatory annimal, I'm sure it would suffer no
great moral dilemma as to wether or not to eat said activist. (Although it would
desperately wish that activists bathed more frequently.) And, yes, we
SHOULD save the whales... but only until we can find the TARTAR SAUCE!!!
- Yo [yoistheman@hotmail.com]
--Added 01/13/99-------
- Medical personel that assume EVERYONE who says that Demerol is the
only thing that works for my migraine is an addict looking for a fix.
People I have had migraines for 20 years now...and I have tried EVERY new drug down
the pike...unfortunately demerol IS THE ONLY THING THAT WORKS!!
Tell you what....I'll trade you 1 year of my headaches and your snotty
attitudes to be headache free. While I realize that many people are in
fact addicts not all of us are so take the time to check it out!
Michelle
- People on welfare with acrylic nails, leather jackets and 20lbs of
gold.
Anonymous
- The drug seeker that comes into our ER with a "hangnail" who is
allergic to everything but morphine and needs it NOW!
Anonymous
- The person with no insurance who calls an ambulance because they had no
cab money for the same "hangnail" emergency.
Anonymous
- The patient who waits in the hallway instead of the exam room who
glares at staff as they walk by. They must think that we will come in
quicker that way, really it only annoys us.
Anonymous
--Added 01/10/99-------
- People who say and do rude, inconsiderate things- not because of any
actual beliefs or opinions they "happen" to have, but merely for the
sick, twisted pleasure they get from hurting people and stirring up
crap.....(for many examples of this type of person, one simply has to read Carolyn's
guest book.)
Matt [lbftaylor@yahoo.com]
- It's really annoying when people have to use obscene language and
make extremely rude comments to get their points across. (For example,
the emails about abortion in this site.)
Jackie
- I can't stand people who begin a sentence with, "To be honest with
you." Does that mean they haven't been honest with you all along? I also
hate rednecks in pickup trucks-they either drive too damn slow or they try
to run you off the road!
Kaylon
- Special thanks to the twit who mowed me down in K Mart last week
trying to get to the christmas wrapping at warp speed......I dont need my
feet or anything lady :o(
Michelle
- Special thanks to the idiot who keeps shutting down my system with your
handy dandy little program thanks so much I now have to spots on my hard
drive fried thanks to you..you ass.
Michelle
- Bitchy girlfriends who don't appreciate a man who works hard to give
them a living,takes in their child as his own and puts up with all the
crap her family gives him.
[scorpion_53061@yahoo.com]
--Added 01/04/99-------
- What really pee's off is when people ask who my favourite singer
is....I answer Van Morrison...they reply..."The guy who was in The
Doors"....I tell them NO - Van is not dead.
Scott Hubick
[hubicks@dlcwest.com]
- I get ticked off at people that have pages on free hosts (Geocities etc)
and ask you to click on the sponsers link to keep the page free...do people
like that think other surfers are that dumb.
Scott Hubick
[hubicks@dlcwest.com]
- PeOpLe WhO CaPiTaLiZe EvErY OtHeR LeTtEr In An AtTeMpT To LoOk LiKe
ThEy HaVe A PeRsOnAlItY!!! I mean come on, this crap is hard to read.
Matt [lbftaylor@yahoo.com]
--Added 01/02/99-------
Thanks to Sandy: the one hour "Photo Girl" [chynadxgrl@aol.com] for the
next 11 peeves!
- When there are a hundread rolls of film in my lab, 20 customers at
the counter, and my backup walks away!!!!!
- Listening to the same songs over and over again on the piped in music.
- Customers who whistle/ hum/ or sing along with the piped in music!
- Getting paid minimum wage to listen to customer's BS!
- Fourty year-old male customers who call me honey/ cutie/ etc.... If
you don't know me don't use a "term of endearment"
- Extremely rude people!!!!!
- People who think my photo counter is a customer service desk!
- When the next shift calls in sick and I am told by my manager that if
I cannot find someone to come in then I have to take those hours too!!!
(HELLO THAT'S YOUR JOB!!!)
- Customers who want me to ring in thier sales, even though the
registers are a few yards away. (can't stand to wait?)
- Customers who ask me questions about stuff that's in another
department on the other side of the store.
- AND FINALLY: NOT BEING ABLE TO QUIT BECAUSE MY TUITION CHECK IS
DUE!!!!!!!
- I really dislike guest books that are full of "neat site" or "Kewl
page". If people like the page then take a bit of effort to say so!
Signing a guestbook takes no effort. BTW, you really have "Kewl page" and a "neat site".
LOL
- Scott Hubick [hubicks@dlcwest.com]
- Tall, Blonde, Skinny
- Alice
- Stating the obvious
- Alice
- Windows crashing because I opened multiple applications. I even made a
banner in honor of this (below!)
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