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Can we discuss pet peeves here? (6 Viewers)

Our local ice cream place switched over to some awful wooden spoons for cups/sundaes and paper straws for shakes.  Ruins the whole experience for me.

People put a lot of effort into getting just the right mouthfeel for ice cream, and then they sandpaper your tongue while you eat it.
I grew up buying these little vanilla ice cream cups that were great outside of those damn wooden spoons. I really thought that their switch to plastic was the best thing ever. Little did I know I would be subject to "the pullback".

 
I grew up buying these little vanilla ice cream cups that were great outside of those damn wooden spoons. I really thought that their switch to plastic was the best thing ever. Little did I know I would be subject to "the pullback".
Those are exactly what I referred to when complaining to my wife about them.  It's one thing for cheap bulk packs for kids and quite another when you're paying premium prices for the good stuff.  And those straws for a shake are at least just as bad, as they are rough and feel like they are drying out your tongue even as you are drinking.

 
Here's your 44 oz giant plastic cup, with giant plastic lid, and your sandwich sealed inside a large plastic container, with plastic cutlery wrapped in plastic, all contained inside of a plastic bag.....

And here's a paper straw that will melt in 10 seconds because too much plastic is a bad thing. 

 
Paper straws are annoying, but I don’t usually get fast food anymore, so I don’t deal with it much.

No, my beef is with country music. Full disclosure, I kinda liked it growing up, especially stuff from the 60s or thereabouts, but what has happened? If it’s not a song about the singer’s hometown, it’s about big trucks, beer and easy women, or it’s some of the most depressing music ever recorded! Are they all right? I mean, I get that breaking up is no fun, but do they have to make it sound like they’re practically on the edge of a cliff, about to fling themselves off? Also, I know the American South is a pretty big place, with quite a bit of variation in speech and mannerisms, but why do they all sound like each other?

 
Nashville and steel guitars.
I get that part(by the way, Nashville is a great city to visit), I was referring to everyone’s voices. I know for a fact that someone from Alabama does not sound the same as someone from West Virginia, but across the country genre now, they all sound alike from a vocal standpoint. Would it kill anyone to throw in some variety?

 
Seating at airports where the back of you chair is RIGHT up against the back of the chair of the person behind you.  Invariably whoever sits behind you doesn't realize your chairs are essentially connected and they are all fidgety and crap.  They are like this at John Wayne Airport in OC Cali.  I'm now at Sacramento's airport and I notice there's a good 5-6 inch gap between backs of seats.  Smart.

 
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Ok listen up car manufacturers.  Stop showing ads with a price that includes employee pricing, lease loyalty etc discounts.  Do you really need to advertise to your own employees?

We get to the dealer and instead of the $129/month rate or whatever, we are hit with $450.   Quit that already

 
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Ok listen up car manufacturers.  Stop showing ads with a price that includes employee pricing, lease loyalty etc discounts.  Do you really need to advertise to your own employees?

We get to the dealer and instead of the $129/month rate or whatever, we are hit with $450.   Quit that already
Annoying, but it did it’s job. Got you to actively engage. Then it’s on the salespeople to spin it properly for a sale. 

 
I'd like manufacturers to stop with the putting less stuff in the package rather than just raising the price.  It just happened with the toilet paper I bought last week.  The efforts to conceal this really piss me off.  Pretty soon, we'll be buying empty boxes.

 
I'd like manufacturers to stop with the putting less stuff in the package rather than just raising the price.  It just happened with the toilet paper I bought last week.  The efforts to conceal this really piss me off.  Pretty soon, we'll be buying empty boxes.
So true. If you have to buy breakfast cereal regularly, you know how thin the boxes have gotten since we were kids. Pringles have gotten smaller too.

 
Left turn arrows that happen before the straight green instead of after.  Nobody will ever convince me this is somehow better/more efficient.
This can b setup dependent. 

For example if you have a street that gets a lot of people turning left and it fills the left turn lane and spills into straight lane. If the green arrow didnt come first, you have one whole lane not moving. 

When the green arrow comes after the straight (and after flashing yellow) you have a weird period at end of straight green where this is indecision. People that want to turn left and are out in the middle of the intersection end up waiting because they arent sure if the traffic coming at them is stopping. Or they dont hesitate and get tboned by somebody coming straight that blows the red. 

 
I'd like manufacturers to stop with the putting less stuff in the package rather than just raising the price.  It just happened with the toilet paper I bought last week.  The efforts to conceal this really piss me off.  Pretty soon, we'll be buying empty boxes.
So does this guy 

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Another driving one that I wouldn't think would happen often enough to qualify as a true pet peeve, but has happened to me a couple times in just the last week at the same intersection.  And relates to the left turn lane discussion...

Two lanes split into three approaching a light, with the left of three being left turn only.  I'm in the left of the two lanes, planning on going straight through the green light, but the person in front of me is planning to turn left and the left turn arrow is red.  So they do that thing where they coast slowly along, hoping not to have to use their brakes much when they get to the intersection, taking their sweet time finally getting to the part where it branches off and then taking their sweet time actually moving into the left turn lane.  And of course, the light turns red for me just before I get there.

This also applies to the similar situation where there's a turn lane in the middle of two lanes on each side in a business area.  People often take forever to move into that lane when there's no opening coming up soon to make the turn and they figure they're going to have to wait anyway.

There are people behind you with different plans than you have, doofus!  You know we're living in a society!!!

 
Hotel websites.  They're awful.  All of them.  No real details or information.  They seem as though one person was assigned to create the website with no feedback from the entire rest of the company.

 
Going to a bar and they don't have prices listed for their drinks.  Now, it;'s not unusual for a place to not list cocktail pricing, I get that.  But lately I have seen that with beer too.  And not just since this last inflation hit.  List your darn beer prices. It's absurd to have to ask what a 16 OZ beer costs.

And, have the beer you say you have. Another annoyance.  I get myself all worked up for a beer and the waitress will tell me (we are out of that)....What makes it worse is when that happens multiple times!

 
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I think we've had this discussion before, perhaps even in this thread... and I may come across as being a poopoohead for even thinking this way, but it annoys me.

I absolutely despise these things.

There are two of them on my route to my parents, one of which is on their street and its a slow, narrow-ish suburban neighborhood street with hardly any traffic.  Gotta literally slow down to 10 MPH because invariably there is a car parked on the street right next to it so you have to take extra caution to go by so as to not hit the car or the stupid sign thingy.

Here's an idea:  have your stupid kids actually pay attention when playing in the street, or don't have them playing in the street at all if you're worried about someone driving by at 20 MPH.  There are parks and schoolyards nearby.

It's their world, we just happen to be living in it.  Sigh.  

 
nirad3 said:
I think we've had this discussion before, perhaps even in this thread... and I may come across as being a poopoohead for even thinking this way, but it annoys me.

I absolutely despise these things.

There are two of them on my route to my parents, one of which is on their street and its a slow, narrow-ish suburban neighborhood street with hardly any traffic.  Gotta literally slow down to 10 MPH because invariably there is a car parked on the street right next to it so you have to take extra caution to go by so as to not hit the car or the stupid sign thingy.

Here's an idea:  have your stupid kids actually pay attention when playing in the street, or don't have them playing in the street at all if you're worried about someone driving by at 20 MPH.  There are parks and schoolyards nearby.

It's their world, we just happen to be living in it.  Sigh.  
Because it's all about you.

 
Another driving one that I wouldn't think would happen often enough to qualify as a true pet peeve, but has happened to me a couple times in just the last week at the same intersection.  And relates to the left turn lane discussion...

Two lanes split into three approaching a light, with the left of three being left turn only.  I'm in the left of the two lanes, planning on going straight through the green light, but the person in front of me is planning to turn left and the left turn arrow is red.  So they do that thing where they coast slowly along, hoping not to have to use their brakes much when they get to the intersection, taking their sweet time finally getting to the part where it branches off and then taking their sweet time actually moving into the left turn lane.  And of course, the light turns red for me just before I get there.

This also applies to the similar situation where there's a turn lane in the middle of two lanes on each side in a business area.  People often take forever to move into that lane when there's no opening coming up soon to make the turn and they figure they're going to have to wait anyway.

There are people behind you with different plans than you have, doofus!  You know we're living in a society!!!
There’s an intersection here that has 2 left turn lanes, and not only does it regularly clog the lane leading up to it, but there are people who ride in the lane next to it and then suddenly jump into the lane and slow that lane down further, and that’s not the worst part. There are people who will use the third left lane(which is not a turn lane) to turn left. These people are terrorists and must be stopped.

 
And the hundreds of other people that have to avoid the stupid thing even when the kids are not even out on the street.

Nah, sorry, this is all about THEM.
I haven’t seen them actually in the street, but that sounds like those parents aren’t good at not impeding traffic. That said, I have a lot of kids in my neighborhood, and they’ll play in the street, since the yards aren’t that big, and we’re tucked away from major roads. For that reason, I tend to keep my head on a swivel and trying to anticipate any kids suddenly running into the street. They also don’t tend to pay attention to stuff like that, so I do it, because that’s an awful thing to mess up on.

 
When you google a telephone number for a local business, but the local number it shows you is redirected to a corporate location.  QUIT PUTTING MIDDLEMEN IN THE WAY OF EVERYTHING WE DO. 

Stayed in a hotel last week and after checking out I realized I'd left my AirPods on the nightstand. Quick google search for the HOTEL NAME in the town I was in, dialed the number, lady answers and I started in: 

Lady: Thank you for calling HOTEL NAME, it's a great day here blah blah blah.....
Me: yes, hi, I just checked out of room 322 about half an hour ago and I realized I left something in the room, is there anyway I could run back by and check, or maybe see if the cleaning crew could check for me?
Lady: Which hotel sir? 
Me:   *confused* The one you're standing in right now?!?
Lady: Sir I'm at the corporate reservation office, but I can connect you to the hotel if you tell me which city and state
Me:  but I dialed the local area code number for this hotel, not the 800 number
Lady: yes but it routes you to me
Me: so what is the number for the desk clerk at the hotel in CITY NAME
Lady:  Sir I'd be glad to connect you automatically
Me: Can you just give me the number so I can call myself and that way I'll have it for the future since I stay at this hotel often?
Lady: No sir I'm sorry but I'll be glad to connect you now. 
Me:  🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

 
Perhaps Ive complained about this before? I despise when people park in front of a store while the passenger goes in. Drop off? Sure. Sit in front of the store and wait? GTFO

Similarly, usually seen at Sam's Club...people who pull up to the store and load their groceries. Park in a parking spot like everyone else. Im not talking about a big item where an employee might be assisting, Im talking you normal cart of groceries. 

 
Women who wear strapless dresses and shirts….and all they do every 2 minutes is pull the top up from slipping down. 
 

newsflash: if you have a chest guys don’t think strapless looks good (we want them hoisted and cleavage not smashed and droopy). And you look very uncomfortable pulling it up all the time.

 
Women who wear strapless dresses and shirts….and all they do every 2 minutes is pull the top up from slipping down. 
 

newsflash: if you have a chest guys don’t think strapless looks good (we want them hoisted and cleavage not smashed and droopy). And you look very uncomfortable pulling it up all the time.
Oh, god, yes.  This drives me bananas.  Spend $3.99 and get something that actually fits.

 
Oh, god, yes.  This drives me bananas.  Spend $3.99 and get something that actually fits.
Why do women like and insist on wearing strapless things?  Do they think it makes their shoulders look more sexy or something?  Honest question for a woman. 
 

The worst is at weddings when the bridal party is forced to wear strapless gowns. Half of the women usually aren’t used to wearing dresses or being in front of a group of people ever. Now you put them in a strapless dress….you have 4 girls constantly pulling the top up every 25 seconds. It would in essence be like half the guys on the mens side pulling up their pants every 50 seconds cuz their pants are too big.  It’s just tacky and distracting. 

 
Why do women like and insist on wearing strapless things?  Do they think it makes their shoulders look more sexy or something?  Honest question for a woman. 
 

The worst is at weddings when the bridal party is forced to wear strapless gowns. Half of the women usually aren’t used to wearing dresses or being in front of a group of people ever. Now you put them in a strapless dress….you have 4 girls constantly pulling the top up every 25 seconds. It would in essence be like half the guys on the mens side pulling up their pants every 50 seconds cuz their pants are too big.  It’s just tacky and distracting. 
I have no idea.  A strapless top should have a proper support component, such as a long line bra or some sort of corseting.  One of the contestants on American Idol had a top that was amazing.  She boogied onstage, and it never budged.  Excellent.

 
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Ok what is the fascination with kids and cooking shows?   Is it really that interesting to watch these little brats cook?  I mean one show, maybe, to keep the soccer moms happy I guess....But this many?  I saw one with Gordon Ramsey for crying out loud.  Theres no way he really is interested in little kids cooking.  He can't be.  He's gotta be doing it for the money.

But I don't understand how something so utterly silly could be as popular as it is these days.

 
Ok what is the fascination with kids and cooking shows?   Is it really that interesting to watch these little brats cook?  I mean one show, maybe, to keep the soccer moms happy I guess....But this many?  I saw one with Gordon Ramsey for crying out loud.  Theres no way he really is interested in little kids cooking.  He can't be.  He's gotta be doing it for the money.

But I don't understand how something so utterly silly could be as popular as it is these days.
Same thing for all these dumb singing shows.   Dress up in ridiculous costumes and sing while annoying C-list actors guess who they are.    Just the dumbing of America.

 
Ok what is the fascination with kids and cooking shows?   Is it really that interesting to watch these little brats cook?  I mean one show, maybe, to keep the soccer moms happy I guess....But this many?  I saw one with Gordon Ramsey for crying out loud.  Theres no way he really is interested in little kids cooking.  He can't be.  He's gotta be doing it for the money.

But I don't understand how something so utterly silly could be as popular as it is these days.
For awhile there my daughter was interested in those shows, especially the baking ones.  Now (she's 11) she really doesn't give a crap nor does she watch TV at all.  All about the 'Tube or TikTok.  

Same thing for all these dumb singing shows.   Dress up in ridiculous costumes and sing while annoying C-list actors guess who they are.    Just the dumbing of America.
I heard that Masked Singer is FOX's #1 show behind the NFL.  Crazy.

 
For awhile there my daughter was interested in those shows, especially the baking ones.  Now (she's 11) she really doesn't give a crap nor does she watch TV at all.  All about the 'Tube or TikTok. 
I think he’s asking why do adults like watching these shows with kids cooking?  

 
I think he’s asking why do adults like watching these shows with kids cooking?  


Gotcha.  My kid liked the kid baking shows... me and the wife?  Not so much.   I barely even like the adult ones.  I used to watch Hells Kitchen religiously but stopped.  I can "stomach" (hee hee) that show on TruTV called Fast Foodies.  It's only 30 minutes and kind of interesting.

 
Same thing for all these dumb singing shows.   Dress up in ridiculous costumes and sing while annoying C-list actors guess who they are.    Just the dumbing of America.
I think you can actually sub "cooking" or "singing" with "reality" in general. I simply cannot fathom the popularity of the dreck that passes for entertainment in the form of "reality TV" in this country. I think your last statement likely sums it up.

 
Last night was the second time recently where my food was delivered by some ####### on a bike.  This needs to stop before it really becomes a thing.  Both times, delivery took twice as long as usual and food was semi cold.  I want to be able to choose my food be delivered in a car.  Gave terrible reviews each time.  

 
I think you can actually sub "cooking" or "singing" with "reality" in general. I simply cannot fathom the popularity of the dreck that passes for entertainment in the form of "reality TV" in this country. I think your last statement likely sums it up.
These shows are not just in this country. 

 
Going to a bar and they don't have prices listed for their drinks.  Now, it;'s not unusual for a place to not list cocktail pricing, I get that.  But lately I have seen that with beer too.  And not just since this last inflation hit.  List your darn beer prices. It's absurd to have to ask what a 16 OZ beer costs.

And, have the beer you say you have. Another annoyance.  I get myself all worked up for a beer and the waitress will tell me (we are out of that)....What makes it worse is when that happens multiple times!
This happened to me three times in one visit to a local place. I was pretty steamed. Never went back. They're closed now. Good riddance.

 
The background music of many recent documentaries is over the top irritating. They're just trying to make common crap sound more dramatic.

Narrator: And they crossed the street to the store

Background music guy: DUN DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNN!

 
Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Detectors.  Can't believe I don't hear more complaining about these.  I can't imagine a worse designed product.  In ~20 years, we've had the batteries in these die maybe 75-100 times...and it seems as though 90%+ of the time it's in the middle of the night.  I dread hearing the chirping battery indicator that makes it impossible to sleep and having to go get the ladder (and hope that we have extra batteries) while half asleep at 3am.  

Then, each type has slightly different sounds and lights that make it tough to know what it's indicating.  Does no light mean it's dead or everything is fine?  Is that noise just the unit malfunctioning and playing the test sound or are we about to die?  

 

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