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I have to agree on several of these: People who stop in the middle of a public walkway, aisle, or doorway without realizing they've just created a big roadblock--go brainstorm whether or not you're going to go to Brookstone somewhere else. Similarly, groups of people who walk abreast of each other, especially when they do this at a leisurely pace--the path is 10 feet wide, we don't need you and your idiot family taking up 8 feet of it while you fart yourselves along at a mile and a half pace. Also, people who let the door slam shut behind them without ever looking over their shoulder (in public)--you're in a crowded public place. There's a good chance somebody is behind you, so at least look back to make sure you're not doing this. It costs no extra time and hardly any more effort, for Christ's sake. Worse, I've had people right in front of me unexpectedly slink through closing doors like they're Indiana loving Jones escaping from the temple of doom, leaving me to catch a door right as it closes on my face. Stop walking while you're absorbed in your phone, too. I shouldn't have to hop out of the way or get run off into the bushes because you're so lost in your Facebook app that you've walked 1/4 mile without looking up once. On occasion, I find it cathartic to shoulder-check people who do this, and then pretend to be as surprised as them when they finally come back to reality. gently caress these people.
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rocket_man38 posted:Whenever you say something and someone goes "no really?" or "no poo poo?!" Just because people on tv say it does not mean you need to. No poo poo?
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Jul 5, 2013 20:53
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Leal posted:Taking a joke too far, or finding jokes too hilarious. I play games with my younger brother, kid is 12. Sometimes I'll say some sort of zinger that in all honestly wasn't too funny, but he'll laugh then ask me to say it again cause even though he spent the last 5 minutes laughing, he didn't hear exactly what I said. Or if he did hear what I say he'll just want me to repeat it again, or if whatever happened that made me say the joke happens again he'll basically beg me to say it again. Not even saying "No I wont say it cause you keep loving asking me to say it" will work, gently caress off it wasn't that funny. Just sounds like your little brother admires you.
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Geokinesis posted:I understand that it is hot (for England at least) so people will be sweating a fair bit. Aquatic Giraffe posted:This. If you're going to be in public with other people, clean yourself. I hate being in a crowd of people and stuck next to someone who doesn't use deodorant (or not enough). Even at the gym, this is obnoxious. It's one thing to regularly shower and wear deodorant and still push yourself really hard, but there are people who clearly walked through the door without any deodorant on, and now smell like a bag of smashed assholes. I shouldn't have to lose momentum during a workout set because your BO is waging an assault on my senses, and I shouldn't be trapped in it for 20-25 minutes because you picked a nearby treadmill/bike/elliptical. You loving stink. I don't care where you came from, this is the gym, it's a small place with lots of people who sweat. Wear deodorant.
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Jul 15, 2013 18:56
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I Might Be Adam posted:People with zero respect for public restrooms pisses me off. I understand treating a disgusting bathroom in a disgusting bar with little regard to cleanliness but when it's the restroom that you use every day at work, why would you make it disgusting? There is a guy on my floor at work that gets poo poo on the toilet seat. Every. Day. Without fail, by the afternoon, the toilet in the one stall has poo poo on the back of the seat. Come on, what is wrong with you? First off, getting poo poo on a toilet seat? That's not really easy to do. It requires remarkably bad technique. I know that. You know that. And this is a bathroom in a building you are in every day! I'd have to find out who is doing it. Keep tabs on who is going into the bathroom and make sure they don't leave any poo poo behind. I'm guessing it's some lardass who can barely fit his vile form on the seat. This is the sort of thing somebody needs to feel shame for. They need to be exposed to the world.
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Jul 19, 2013 08:37
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DrBouvenstein posted:I can't speak for the loaves, but that's not flour on the bottom of the pizza, that's cornmeal. It keeps the pizza dough from sticking to the oven. I know what you're talking about, but since he's talking about stonebaked pizzas, he could very well be talking about flour (which can be used in place of cornmeal).
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Jul 20, 2013 02:52
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DicktheCat posted:I have never been interested in having kids, and it's insulting that people think that, just because I'm a woman, that it's okay to say these things to me. If a man expresses that he doesn't want kids, no one squawks "YOU'LL CHANGE YOUR MIND!!" as a reflex. I'm a man and I get this all the time when the subject comes up--people never think you know what you're talking about. I don't think it has much to do with your gender.
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Jul 23, 2013 22:37
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Xander77 posted:"This fictional foreigner character has a name! How thoughtless of the creators! Couldn't they have come up with a different name, one that no one in that foreign culture would actually use?" I don't think I understand this one.
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Sagebrush posted:
Pretty sure Soapgish is just Narciss, a forums troll. Maybe you have a new pet peeve (forums trolls)?
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Yeah my wealthy family with two military pilots and a bush pilot and a couple of aluminum rowboats with outboard motors. I've literally never run out of gas in my car regardless of how much traffic I'm sitting in, because I just look at the gauge before I leave and go "hmm, should I fill up the tank before I head out?" and then if the car is so low that it would be running on fumes when I get home I fill it up first because I know how to operate a vehicle properly and am not a cheapass.
hambeet posted:Okay because this is on my list too: why can't you close your mouth? Does your sneezing action involve an involuntary opening of the mouth? Is it painful to try and hold it in? Have you never sneezed before? While stifling a sneeze won't cause your eyes to pop out of your head, it can cause damage your ear drums (something about eustachian tubes) and lead to sinus infections. So just cover your mouth.
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Jul 29, 2013 05:24
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You Are A Elf posted:I hate it when I type faster than a webpage loads and I'm left with half-finished or unintelligible search queries by the time I hit enter and end up with some bullshit I wasn't looking for. This mainly gets under my skin when I'm trying to type my PIN into the loving keypad at a register, and I have to type it in so slowly that the other customers in line don't even have to be paying close attention to figure out what my PIN is. "ONE"..."NINE"......"FIVE".... Sometimes the keypad is in a recess so you have some degree of privacy, but I've been to plenty of places where it's out in the open and seems to only take a single keystroke a second.
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), so again with the beepboopboopbeep but I typed it too fast again and the first two numbers didn't enter properly and now the machine is telling me to "please see cashier" and all I want is some gas and holy loving poo poo 
Xander77 posted:Everyday items that don't have the basic functionality I would assume all items of that sort would have. Most earphones don't have their own volume control.
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Xander77 posted:You are correct, that is what I wrote in the post you quoted. It's just...well, frankly, it's weird that you would think they'd all come with it, is all. Maybe getting upset that a mechanical pencil doesn't come with a built-in eraser or ham comes with no burger would make more sense. But yeah. Just really weird.
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Aug 10, 2013 07:50
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Khazar-khum posted:Why is it weird to think that an audio device might have volume control? I'm not saying it's weird to think that a pair of headphones has an audio control, I'm saying that it's weird to think that all headphones would have audio controls.
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Aug 10, 2013 18:26
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iTunes just reminded me of a pet peeve: lovely progress bars. Hey Apple, don't even bother giving me a progress bar for your lovely program if the thing is going to keep resetting towards the beginning of the bar, especially if you don't give me any idea how many more steps are required before we're finished. If it takes 30 seconds to work its way to the "finished" side of the bar, and then proceeds to sit there for 3 minutes while it does X, Y, and Z, and then it moves back to the beginning to do something else required for installation five or six more times, that's not a progress bar. The average person is only interested in two things when something is installing: How much TOTAL time is left, and whether or not the installer is frozen. Somehow they've designed a progress bar that fails on both accounts. 
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Aug 13, 2013 04:32
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If we're talking about road signs, I hate, hate, hate when a sign is posted on the side of the road and a goddamn tree is planted about 10 feet in front of it, completely obscuring the sign. Unless you drop down to 5-10 MPH, you're going to miss the street sign because there's like a 1/2 second window between being able to read the sign and passing the street.
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:Exchanges that go like this: Do these exchanges happen a lot? Maybe you're hosed in the head.
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It really bothers me when I'm pooping on the toilet, and then somebody knocks on the door and I have to let them know that the bathroom is occupied (even though the locked door should clue them in). Then they ask that I don't flush the toilet. It's like, "I get it, you're going to take pictures of it or do some sort of 'dominance poo' (where you poo on somebody else's poo) but do you really have to do that in a public bathroom?" QUICK EDIT: Also, I hate when the person you're taking a shower with tries to urinate on you.
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Gnack posted:I'm sorry, what? Sagebrush posted:e: wait, what? I just read the thing you posted again and what the hell? People ask you not to flush the toilet so they can poo on your poo? How often does this happen to you? What? You have never heard of this? It's more common in the U.S., I think. Go to a public restroom in a movie theater, sit in a stall for long enough and you'll probably have it happen to you. I mean, if they're polite, I'll honor their request--it's not like I've got anything to do with the poo once I "drop" it off, right? It's kind of like the bathroom version of bumming a smoke. QUICK EDIT: I just realized I said bumming a smoke. That's a funny pun, given the context.
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Austrian mook posted:I generally avoid public pooping, what the gently caress are you guys doing in there I know a lot of people who avoid public bathrooms, too. I don't really blame them. I've even seen people take out their phone and try to jump up and take pictures over the stall divider. Like, before the other person has even left the stall. I doubt they'd actually get a picture of anything, but they still try. I guess you could get lucky and catch them as they're standing up, but before they flush, but that's a really small window of time.
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Turtlicious posted:Are you in LA? Maybe it's a regional thing, because here in Los Angeles people try to get pictures of my poo all the time. It's really weird, I saw one guy go in with a ziploc, I think they use it for obscure fetish porn or something. Interesting! I've never seen Ziploc bags involved--just a lot of the aforementioned camera phones and "no-flush" requests. Like I said, it could very well be a regional thing. It doesn't seem like a lot of people are from America in here and people are probably more squeamish in other countries. Do they have "spotters" (that's what I call them, anyway) in LA? You can tell when somebody is "spotting" because they're just sort of lurking by the sinks, but they're generally watching the stalls.
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p.crestmont posted:Fuuck I wondered why they didn't use the empty stall next to me and just waited what the hell. There was a movie where the guy (Jason Bourne??) talked about how it was really easy to ambush a guy when they were using a urinal, so you had to check to make sure the bathroom was clear before you took a leak. It's the same idea with using a stall, because there's no way you're going to catch a guy with your pants around your ankles. They'll wait until they think you're in the middle of BM'ing and that's when they make their move. So be careful.
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Bismuth crystals. Hate them. They're all so blocky.
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:The manufacture date of my TV was June 2006, according to the sticker on the back, and it still has all of its original film on it. Actually, the monitor I'm using to type this post still has its crap on it, too, and I got it in March of '07. One of the first things I do when I get a desktop or laptop is remove a majority of the stickers that cover them (I keep the small OS and GPU stickers, usually). Laptops are especially bad, because the space where your palms rest is frequently covered with large advertisements for things that are irrelevant if you already own the laptop. Because it has an Nvidia card, it'll be a, "Gears of WAR 2 like it was meant to be played on NVIDIA!" with a big picture of a GoW character. Or, "Powerboost technology" with a chart of how the laptop performs thanks to the technology. I think it's so weird when people leave these stickers on their poo poo for years. Phyzzle posted:Toilets that "flush" by gently swirling your poop in a circle and leaving it there. It's a conspiracy to make it easier for them to get a look at your poo. 
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DarkHamsterlord posted:What is even the point of under 21 licenses, anyway? You renew your license every five birthdays (or you do in my state, at least. Dunno if that's a country-wide thing), so you're gonna end up with an under 21 license until you're 25. It's not like the cashier can just look at that and say "the license is vertical, this person can't buy alcohol" and then not bother to find the DOB, because the person could be 23 or something. You're only really going to end up with an "under 21" license until you're 25 if for some reason you got it right before you turned 21. The assumption is generally that people get their licenses when they're 16 or 17, then again when they're 20 or 21 and have to renew. DarkHamsterlord posted:In Virginia, it's not every five birthdays from when you get your license, it's always age 20, 25, 30, 35, etc. I'm 20 so I still have an under 21 license, but when I was a cashier I remember getting a lot of people who were between 21 and 25 with under 21 licenses, so I don't think we replace them at 21 here. Oh, I didn't realize that. Everywhere else I've been, it doesn't work that way. It's based off your specific license.
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And what's the deal with whole cashews? They're so much more expensive than cashew "pieces" and I can't think of a time when I needed whole cashews over pieces. Who pays like $2 more for a tin of them and thinks, "Yeah. This is what I need. Not those dumb, peasant pieces."
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JoeyJoJoJr Shabadoo posted:When people make obnoxiously loud bodily noises, particularly since it's perfectly possible to do them quietly. For example, burping Barney Gumble style, or letting out extremely loud farts. You are capable of doing these things quietly at work, social functions, etc, why the gently caress can't you do them quietly around me? Wait, so your pet peeve is people with no sense of humor but you also want people who find farting funny to go die in a fire? Hmmmm... New pet peeve: Discount cheese.
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JoeyJoJoJr Shabadoo posted:I don't understand what you're trying to say here. My pet peeve is people who make annoyingly loud body noises. I also do not like people who think farting is funny. Where does no sense of humor fit into there? I think you know what I'm saying, you stick in the mud. Sagebrush posted:Is this some sort of bizarre troll? Why on earth would you change your car's gauges to a different standard than the one the roads are measured in? You're telling me you've never wanted to pretend you're from Jolly Ol' England, and since they all drive on the wrong side, you sit in your passenger's seat and throw a leg over the center console and drive your car that way?
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Leal posted:Whenever I am put on hold or when people have those things where you call them and instead of the ring tone it plays a song and they sound so lovely. Its god drat 2013, why do these things sound like they're being played on a phone in the 90s being pushed against a speaker made in the 80s? I can use my phone right now and push it against my speakers and it'll be of better quality. It is me, I am the first worlder. I am genuinely curious why those songs are such an awful quality, and why "In the Arms of An Angel" is a universal standard in phone music.
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Coffee And Pie posted:I have Tom Jones' "It's Not Unusual" stuck in my head. I have a raspberry seed wedged into my molar. Why do they have to make these seeds so small?
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lidnsya posted:What is the point of closing the toilet lid if you don't have pets? Keeps the stink trapped in the bowl, rather than wafting into the rest of the house.
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Call Now posted:May I suggest flushing? Yeah but once everything goes down, the toilet just starts burping up fart gas--and nobody has time for that.
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WampaLord posted:E: VVV If there are employers disqualifying people for not listing that on their resume, that's a company you don't want to work for. For gently caress's sake, can't we just assume any person you want to hire knows how to operate a computer enough to use loving Office? I don't think you quite realize how many companies will disqualify an applicant for something as small as neglecting to mention proficiency in Office--especially if it's relevant to the position and especially in our current market. And no, you can't really just assume everybody knows how to operate a computer and use Microsoft Office, because a lot of people still do not.
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Sagebrush posted:Eh, when I was in college we had a "Office Computing 100" class that was meant for people who grew up on an ice farm in the Yukon or whatever and covered things like the mouse, keyboard, cursor, menus, etc. The final exam was to make a one-page flyer in Word. This was ca. 2005. How could he get a C- for not even doing an assignment that was worth 50% of his grade? No, no, this doesn't add up at all!
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Burning Sensation posted:People who use "X and I" incorrectly. Exactly. People are so afraid to use "me" in combination with any other subject. It's inseparable duo "Mac and Me", not soulless cash-grab "Mac and I"!
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:Languages that don't have a unique answer word to respond in the positive to a negative question. French gets it right with "si", but in English we either have to use the awkward sounding "right" or "correct", or use "yes" or "no" then explain what we mean by it. What's wrong with "affirmative"? Person 1: "You didn't eat your browns, did you?" Person 2: "Affirmative--I didn't eat my broooooowns, mom." What's so hard about that? EDIT: "Correctomundo" works here, too. Cream-of-Plenty has a new favorite as of 20:45 on Sep 15, 2013 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:And greasy as "grea-zy." Reese's Pieces: "Ree-sees Pee-sees"
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Lotish posted:Was at the gym today, and I have to admit that people just sitting on the machines shooting the poo poo instead of actually working out is starting to bug me. Fart and then lurk nearby. Not even the swolest of bros will squat on a machine if there's rancid rear end-gas harassing their peace of mind. When they retreat like frightened apes to the unmolested reaches of the gym, you can swoop in and claim your thigh machine or 5 pound weights.
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Austrian mook posted:Or we could make them out of Gourds which are basically only good for carving! People who use the word "gourd" when we already have the perfectly acceptable "punkin".
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Leal posted:Just everything people do while driving pisses me off. Seriously, gently caress everybody all the time for everything when it comes to driving: The person driving 5 miles under the speed limit in the #1 lane when there's 10-15 cars on their rear end. The person who can't figure out if they want to drive 60 or 75 miles an hour (so they just sort of float between the two speeds). The person who sits at a right turn and is too scared to actually turn right until they get a green light, even when there isn't a "no turn on red" sign, so you're stuck there behind them. Preoccupied drivers (cell phones, shaving, putting on make-up) who drive recklessly--I am going to get diagnosed with cancer one day and then spend my last days on a vigilante quest, hunting down and murdering preoccupied drivers. I think driving peeves are the only true pet peeves.
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