Can we discuss pet peeves here? (4 Viewers)

[jhib]

Which brings up another peeve. Why are remotes shaped like some girly vibrator? I want a practical, non-slidey remote. Those "ergonomic" things are hardly usable.

Our remote has a tiny solar cell on the non-button side. Seems silly to me.

Do most people’s remotes have a lot of exposure to direct sunlight?

Most of those can charge from lamp light. Of course, if you don't leave them in just the right spot, it's not all that handy.

I’ve said this here many times but I feel like this is the appropriate time and place to mention my pet peeve…..

remotes not having a locate button on the back of the TV that causes the remote to vibrate/make sound so it can be easily found.

This technology should’ve been implemented in the early 80s and still hasn’t to this day. Inexcusable.

Have this on my Onn Google TV streamer. Press a button on front of the device and it plays a sound on the remote. Or just say, "Hey Google, find my remote" and it does the same thing.

 

[Gally]

You have I69 south - northbound and beltway 8 west southbound(or northbound) and beltway 8 south westbound/eastbound, etc.

I have no idea what this means. hahahaha

It's really not that hard to come up with a simple highway naming structure.

 

[Osaurus]

Outrage over dumb ads

 

[the moops]

35W runs from north/south

I would be more annoyed that 35W (assuming West) runs North/South

I-35 runs (for the most part) north-south in most cities, but it splits into two (35W and 35E) as you approach the Minneapolis/St. Paul metroplex. 35W goes through Minneapolis and 35E takes you through St. Paul.

And everyone knows that odd number interstates run north/south and even ones east/west

 

[BeTheMatch]

35W runs from north/south

I would be more annoyed that 35W (assuming West) runs North/South

I-35 runs (for the most part) north-south in most cities, but it splits into two (35W and 35E) as you approach the Minneapolis/St. Paul metroplex. 35W goes through Minneapolis and 35E takes you through St. Paul.

And everyone knows that odd number interstates run north/south and even ones east/west

You've met people, right?

 

[TheBaylorKid]

35W runs from north/south

I would be more annoyed that 35W (assuming West) runs North/South

I-35 runs (for the most part) north-south in most cities, but it splits into two (35W and 35E) as you approach the Minneapolis/St. Paul metroplex. 35W goes through Minneapolis and 35E takes you through St. Paul.

And everyone knows that odd number interstates run north/south and even ones east/west

You've met people, right?

35 does this same split north and south of Dallas/Ft Worth. Back in the days of map quest and being 18 years old, I didn’t really process this split when planning my route. I still remember the existential crisis I had on north bound I 35 in Hillsboro Texas when I realized an odd numbered interstate suddenly presented me with an E and a W and I must choose at 70 miles per hour.

 

[Instinctive]

35W runs from north/south

I would be more annoyed that 35W (assuming West) runs North/South

Houston interstate labeling took a while to figure out moving from wyoming.

You have I69 south - northbound and beltway 8 west southbound(or northbound) and beltway 8 south westbound/eastbound, etc. The south, north, east, or west just refers to it's location from downtown houston and then you have to add the direction of traffic to determine which set of lanes people are talking about.

You should ask my wife about which direction she should go on the Dallas North Tollway. Can't explain it enough and still get a confused look about going south on the Dallas North Tollway. She's like "it goes North." And then I put my head in my hands and cry.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

35W runs from north/south

I would be more annoyed that 35W (assuming West) runs North/South

Houston interstate labeling took a while to figure out moving from wyoming.

You have I69 south - northbound and beltway 8 west southbound(or northbound) and beltway 8 south westbound/eastbound, etc. The south, north, east, or west just refers to it's location from downtown houston and then you have to add the direction of traffic to determine which set of lanes people are talking about.

You should ask my wife about which direction she should go on the Dallas North Tollway. Can't explain it enough and still get a confused look about going south on the Dallas North Tollway. She's like "it goes North." And then I put my head in my hands and cry.

All y'all need to experience Miami. There's NW 11th Street and a SW 11th Street. Not the same thing at all. None of the street labels make any sense at all.

Houston interstate labeling is even more fun when you include the names. What the hey is the East Tex Freeway? Or the Katy? Why does everything have extra names?

 

[belljr]

I am now somehow in 3 texts groups that have the same 7 people but the 8th person is different. It's golf groups but the old guys in charge somehow think this is better than one thread with 10 people smh

Now 2 people that are in both are asking questions in one thread that was literally answered in the other thread 1 day ago

It's maddening

 

[Terminalxylem]

I am now somehow in 3 texts groups that have the same 7 people but the 8th person is different. It's golf groups but the old guys in charge somehow think this is better than one thread with 10 people smh

Now 2 people that are in both are asking questions in one thread that was literally answered in the other thread 1 day ago

It's maddening

Why not create a new group, and ask everyone to consolidate messaging there?

 

[the moops]

All y'all need to experience Miami. There's NW 11th Street and a SW 11th Street. Not the same thing at all. None of the street labels make any sense at all.

I imagine these are E/W running streets? And maybe Aves run N/S? And NW 11th St is north and west of some major roads, and SW 11th is south and west of those same major roads? That makes total sense to me

 

[wlwiles]

I am now somehow in 3 texts groups that have the same 7 people but the 8th person is different. It's golf groups but the old guys in charge somehow think this is better than one thread with 10 people smh

Now 2 people that are in both are asking questions in one thread that was literally answered in the other thread 1 day ago

It's maddening

Text groups drive me crazy. I've got one with my 2 closest coworkers, another with our entire 6 person team, another with the team + the supervisor, yet another with team + supervisor + manager. So depending on what the topic is, we do or don't involve the boss(es), but often the team-only conversation needs to be escalated, so someone will take it to the "next level" text group but they have to screenshot the previous messages from the first group to clue the boss(es) in so they're not lost.

And before anyone says it, these are all Gen Z so when the Millenial of the group (me) suggests we do this over email instead I get called a Boomer

 

[Dennis Castro]

35W runs from north/south

I would be more annoyed that 35W (assuming West) runs North/South

Houston interstate labeling took a while to figure out moving from wyoming.

You have I69 south - northbound and beltway 8 west southbound(or northbound) and beltway 8 south westbound/eastbound, etc. The south, north, east, or west just refers to it's location from downtown houston and then you have to add the direction of traffic to determine which set of lanes people are talking about.

You should ask my wife about which direction she should go on the Dallas North Tollway. Can't explain it enough and still get a confused look about going south on the Dallas North Tollway. She's like "it goes North." And then I put my head in my hands and cry.

All y'all need to experience Miami. There's NW 11th Street and a SW 11th Street. Not the same thing at all. None of the street labels make any sense at all.

Houston interstate labeling is even more fun when you include the names. What the hey is the East Tex Freeway? Or the Katy? Why does everything have extra names?

Salt Lake City is fun too. For example, the address for Red Rock Brewery is 254 South 200 West. Good luck finding that.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

All y'all need to experience Miami. There's NW 11th Street and a SW 11th Street. Not the same thing at all. None of the street labels make any sense at all.

I imagine these are E/W running streets? And maybe Aves run N/S? And NW 11th St is north and west of some major roads, and SW 11th is south and west of those same major roads? That makes total sense to me

And if you don't know what or where the major roads are? It's just nuts. Chicago has streets running N/S and NYC has this sort of arrangement without this lunacy.

 

[shuke]

Salt Lake City is fun too. For example, the address for Red Rock Brewery is 254 South 200 West. Good luck finding that.

This is easy, and really the best way to name streets if you think about it. I lived in Warsaw, Indiana (hey @urbanhack !) for a spell, and their streets are like this. And it's genius. Imagine the very center of downtown is the zero point on a graph. The streets that are east of the vertical line are "xxx East", where the xxx is in units of 25, where 25 = a quarter a mile. So 500 East is the road parallel to the imaginary vertical that runs N/S and is a half mile from the center of town. 400 East? 4 Miles east. 275 West? 2.75 miles west. You get the point. Same thing with North/South.

So now, you have to differentiation from the part of 100 East that is north of the imaginary horizontal line, and the part that is south of it. So 254 South 200 West would be on 200 West, which is the road that runs north/south that is 2 miles west of town, and it's on the 200 block south of the centerline that runs east/west. I'd find this place in a heartbeat.

Like I said, genius.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

Like I said, genius.

This assumes local knowledge. It's for the birds.

 

[the moops]

All y'all need to experience Miami. There's NW 11th Street and a SW 11th Street. Not the same thing at all. None of the street labels make any sense at all.

I imagine these are E/W running streets? And maybe Aves run N/S? And NW 11th St is north and west of some major roads, and SW 11th is south and west of those same major roads? That makes total sense to me

And if you don't know what or where the major roads are? It's just nuts. Chicago has streets running N/S and NYC has this sort of arrangement without this lunacy.

You know that the major road is 11 blocks away. And the street number will tell you how many blocks away it is in the other direction.

Do I have this wrong? Seems to be a pretty common city grid type thing no?

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

All y'all need to experience Miami. There's NW 11th Street and a SW 11th Street. Not the same thing at all. None of the street labels make any sense at all.

I imagine these are E/W running streets? And maybe Aves run N/S? And NW 11th St is north and west of some major roads, and SW 11th is south and west of those same major roads? That makes total sense to me

And if you don't know what or where the major roads are? It's just nuts. Chicago has streets running N/S and NYC has this sort of arrangement without this lunacy.

You know that the major road is 11 blocks away. And the street number will tell you how many blocks away it is in the other direction.

Do I have this wrong? Seems to be a pretty common city grid type thing no?

Nope.

 

[zoobird]

I just turned 55. Was looking at booking a hotel just now and saw that they have senior rates for those 55+. Cool! My first senior discount...nightly price $319. Curious about how much my age is saving me, I check the room rate without the senior discount applied. $316. Hmmm.

Checked another hotel, owned by a different chain. $381 for seniors, $338 for the same room without senior "discount".

 

[Uruk-Hai]

I just turned 55. Was looking at booking a hotel just now and saw that they have senior rates for those 55+. Cool! My first senior discount...nightly price $319. Curious about how much my age is saving me, I check the room rate without the senior discount applied. $316. Hmmm.

Checked another hotel, owned by a different chain. $381 for seniors, $338 for the same room without senior "discount".

Do you have an AARP membership?

 

[zoobird]

I just turned 55. Was looking at booking a hotel just now and saw that they have senior rates for those 55+. Cool! My first senior discount...nightly price $319. Curious about how much my age is saving me, I check the room rate without the senior discount applied. $316. Hmmm.

Checked another hotel, owned by a different chain. $381 for seniors, $338 for the same room without senior "discount".

Do you have an AARP membership?

No. Should I?

 

[the moops]

All y'all need to experience Miami. There's NW 11th Street and a SW 11th Street. Not the same thing at all. None of the street labels make any sense at all.

I imagine these are E/W running streets? And maybe Aves run N/S? And NW 11th St is north and west of some major roads, and SW 11th is south and west of those same major roads? That makes total sense to me

And if you don't know what or where the major roads are? It's just nuts. Chicago has streets running N/S and NYC has this sort of arrangement without this lunacy.

You know that the major road is 11 blocks away. And the street number will tell you how many blocks away it is in the other direction.

Do I have this wrong? Seems to be a pretty common city grid type thing no?

Nope.

Really? It sure looks that way looking at a map. and according to the google

• Northeast (NE): Located north of Flagler Street and east of Miami Avenue.
• Northwest (NW): Located north of Flagler Street and west of Miami Avenue.
• Southeast (SE): Located south of Flagler Street and east of Miami Avenue.
• Southwest (SW): Located south of Flagler Street and west of Miami Avenue

 

[Instinctive]

I just turned 55. Was looking at booking a hotel just now and saw that they have senior rates for those 55+. Cool! My first senior discount...nightly price $319. Curious about how much my age is saving me, I check the room rate without the senior discount applied. $316. Hmmm.

Checked another hotel, owned by a different chain. $381 for seniors, $338 for the same room without senior "discount".

Do you have an AARP membership?

No. Should I?

Or were you already getting a different rate? Sometimes I get a rate from a conference or something and my firm's rate is better anyway so it looks like the rate is bad from conference, although if I had no rate it would have been better.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

All y'all need to experience Miami. There's NW 11th Street and a SW 11th Street. Not the same thing at all. None of the street labels make any sense at all.

I imagine these are E/W running streets? And maybe Aves run N/S? And NW 11th St is north and west of some major roads, and SW 11th is south and west of those same major roads? That makes total sense to me

And if you don't know what or where the major roads are? It's just nuts. Chicago has streets running N/S and NYC has this sort of arrangement without this lunacy.

You know that the major road is 11 blocks away. And the street number will tell you how many blocks away it is in the other direction.

Do I have this wrong? Seems to be a pretty common city grid type thing no?

Nope.

Really? It sure looks that way looking at a map. and according to the google

• Northeast (NE): Located north of Flagler Street and east of Miami Avenue.
• Northwest (NW): Located north of Flagler Street and west of Miami Avenue.
• Southeast (SE): Located south of Flagler Street and east of Miami Avenue.
• Southwest (SW): Located south of Flagler Street and west of Miami Avenue

The "nope" was for this part: Seems to be a pretty common city grid type thing no?

 

[ignatiusjreilly]

Applied for a job a couple weeks ago and got a response from them today. Glanced at the Gmail preview on my phone and saw, "Thank you for applying to XYZ Corp. We are excited that ..." and then it cut off.

Opened up the message and it said, "We are excited that you considered us, but we will not be moving forward with your candidacy."

Shades of the "very literal" doctor in Arrested Development whose initial statements are always misleading: "He's going to be all right."

 

[parasaurolophus]

We have a small knife block for paring knives. It is behind our coffee makers. My wife always grabs the middle knife first. I thought perhaps she had a preference for the knife that happened to be in the middle, but after rearranging a few times, she just always grabs the middle one.

It is harder to put away the middle knife. It is harder to grab too, to be honest, but that doesnt affect me.

 

[heckmanm]

I don’t like any of the euphemisms. Lost. Passed away etc

I don’t like any of the euphemisms. Lost. Passed away etc

Even croaked? I like that one.

Expired?

Shuffled off this mortal coil?

I don’t like any of the euphemisms. Lost. Passed away etc

I don’t like any of the euphemisms. Lost. Passed away etc

Even croaked? I like that one.

Expired?

Dirt nap? I'm partial to that one.

I’ll accept croaked, dirt nap, kicked the bucket. There may be others.

It’s the PC ones that I can’t stand.

Sometimes, joined the Choir Celestial is appropriate. I find the more elaborate they are, the better.

Shuffled off this mortal coil

THIS IS AN EX-PERSON!!

 

[DA RAIDERS]

I don’t like any of the euphemisms. Lost. Passed away etc

I don’t like any of the euphemisms. Lost. Passed away etc

Even croaked? I like that one.

Expired?

Shuffled off this mortal coil?

I don’t like any of the euphemisms. Lost. Passed away etc

I don’t like any of the euphemisms. Lost. Passed away etc

Even croaked? I like that one.

Expired?

Dirt nap? I'm partial to that one.

I’ll accept croaked, dirt nap, kicked the bucket. There may be others.

It’s the PC ones that I can’t stand.

Sometimes, joined the Choir Celestial is appropriate. I find the more elaborate they are, the better.

Shuffled off this mortal coil

THIS IS AN EX-PERSON!!

Mortal coil.

 

[heckmanm]

I don’t like any of the euphemisms. Lost. Passed away etc

I don’t like any of the euphemisms. Lost. Passed away etc

Even croaked? I like that one.

Expired?

Shuffled off this mortal coil?

I don’t like any of the euphemisms. Lost. Passed away etc

I don’t like any of the euphemisms. Lost. Passed away etc

Even croaked? I like that one.

Expired?

Dirt nap? I'm partial to that one.

I’ll accept croaked, dirt nap, kicked the bucket. There may be others.

It’s the PC ones that I can’t stand.

Sometimes, joined the Choir Celestial is appropriate. I find the more elaborate they are, the better.

Shuffled off this mortal coil

THIS IS AN EX-PERSON!!

Mortal coil.

I was tempted to just run thru the whole bit, but since "mortal coil" was already posted (and "choir celestial" which is close to "choir invisible") I decided not to go full Hipple

 

[ignatiusjreilly]

Politics-adjacent pet peeve. Whatever you think of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, it has a number of universally recognized shorthand names (Obamacare, the ACA) that make it easy to refer to it in conversation. "I'm getting my insurance through an Obamacare exchange." "My premiums went up because of the ACA." Easy to say, and everyone knows what you're referring to.

I'm currently organizing a webinar for work on how the budget recently signed by Trump will impact healthcare in my state, and I've realized there is no easy way to refer to the law. Even if you don't think "One Big Beautiful Bill Act"* is a silly name, it's inarguably a mouthful to say. But if you go around talking about "The OBBBA", you'll get a bunch of blank stares. (Even there, do you pronounce it "Oh-bee-bee-bee-yay", "OH-bah" or "AH-ba"?) Also, every time I go over the collateral for the event, I have to make sure they didn't leave out one of the three Bs in the acronym


* Nested pet peeve: A "bill" is legislation that has not yet been passed. An "act" or "law" is what it's called after it's passed and signed by the executive. So calling something a "Bill Act" somehow manages to be both redundant and paradoxical. It's redoxical! It's paradundant!

 

[parasaurolophus]

Email I sent

"I received invoice 12345 from you. It does not list our PO number on it like it usually does. We order the same quantity every time and have three open POs. I dont want to start lining records up out of sequence. Can you tell me which invoice number you have assigned to my PO 6789?"

Reply I got

"Can you send me a screenshot?"

The f?

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Email I sent

"I received invoice 12345 from you. It does not list our PO number on it like it usually does. We order the same quantity every time and have three open POs. I dont want to start lining records up out of sequence. Can you tell me which invoice number you have assigned to my PO 6789?"

Reply I got

"Can you send me a screenshot?"

The f?

Did they remember to use the new cover sheets for their TPS reports?

 

[Terminalxylem]

Politics-adjacent pet peeve. Whatever you think of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, it has a number of universally recognized shorthand names (Obamacare, the ACA) that make it easy to refer to it in conversation. "I'm getting my insurance through an Obamacare exchange." "My premiums went up because of the ACA." Easy to say, and everyone knows what you're referring to.

I'm currently organizing a webinar for work on how the budget recently signed by Trump will impact healthcare in my state, and I've realized there is no easy way to refer to the law. Even if you don't think "One Big Beautiful Bill Act"* is a silly name, it's inarguably a mouthful to say. But if you go around talking about "The OBBBA", you'll get a bunch of blank stares. (Even there, do you pronounce it "Oh-bee-bee-bee-yay", "OH-bah" or "AH-ba"?) Also, every time I go over the collateral for the event, I have to make sure they didn't leave out one of the three Bs in the acronym


* Nested pet peeve: A "bill" is legislation that has not yet been passed. An "act" or "law" is what it's called after it's passed and signed by the executive. So calling something a "Bill Act" somehow manages to be both redundant and paradoxical. It's redoxical! It's paradundant!

That’s a tough one…maybe the MAGA Carta?

 

[Yambag]

Politics-adjacent pet peeve. Whatever you think of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, it has a number of universally recognized shorthand names (Obamacare, the ACA) that make it easy to refer to it in conversation. "I'm getting my insurance through an Obamacare exchange." "My premiums went up because of the ACA." Easy to say, and everyone knows what you're referring to.

I'm currently organizing a webinar for work on how the budget recently signed by Trump will impact healthcare in my state, and I've realized there is no easy way to refer to the law. Even if you don't think "One Big Beautiful Bill Act"* is a silly name, it's inarguably a mouthful to say. But if you go around talking about "The OBBBA", you'll get a bunch of blank stares. (Even there, do you pronounce it "Oh-bee-bee-bee-yay", "OH-bah" or "AH-ba"?) Also, every time I go over the collateral for the event, I have to make sure they didn't leave out one of the three Bs in the acronym


* Nested pet peeve: A "bill" is legislation that has not yet been passed. An "act" or "law" is what it's called after it's passed and signed by the executive. So calling something a "Bill Act" somehow manages to be both redundant and paradoxical. It's redoxical! It's paradundant!

I also work for a company doing webinars on this topic. Some of the speakers I deal with are calling it the OB3 act, which I thought was the best option I have heard so far.

 

[New Binky the Doormat]

Email I sent

"I received invoice 12345 from you. It does not list our PO number on it like it usually does. We order the same quantity every time and have three open POs. I dont want to start lining records up out of sequence. Can you tell me which invoice number you have assigned to my PO 6789?"

Reply I got

"Can you send me a screenshot?"

The f?

perfect for sending an inappropriate yet similarly obtuse picture

 

[Dan Lambskin]

Calling dinner “supper”

Or have I posted that before?

 

[fatness]

Calling dinner “supper”

Or have I posted that before?

My grandparents had 3 meals a day:
breakfast
dinner
supper

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

Calling dinner “supper”

Or have I posted that before?

????

 

[Dan Lambskin]

Calling dinner “supper”

Or have I posted that before?

My grandparents had 3 meals a day:
breakfast
dinner
supper