Can we discuss pet peeves here? (6 Viewers)

[BeTheMatch]

Mine's a Whirlpool.  The instruction booklet for the installation had many pages so that you would know not to plug it in to the toaster oven.  There really weren't any operation instructions.  Still easy to use, but somehow I doubt there's any way to turn off the wrinkle guard feature or the stupid buzzer.

I disconnected mine today. There's a little box for the buzzer if you take off the rear panel. Just pull a wire out... bingo!

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

I disconnected mine today. There's a little box for the buzzer if you take off the rear panel. Just pull a wire out... bingo!

Good to know.

Oh, Mr R!  I've got a job for you!

 

[Keerock]

Ridiculous.

I'm currently sitting at Denver airport and some chick is watching videos on her phone, sound completely up for the rest of everyone who's sitting in the area to hear.  Completely and totally oblivious to her surroundings.  It's a friggin' epidemic.  One of these days I'll actually say something to one of these jerks.    

Pr0n?

 

[nirad3]

Pr0n?

Haha, nope.  Oh and it's even an epidemic in Fargo, ND.  At the gate here headed home and some chick is watching her phone, sound completely up, totally oblivious.  

 

[General Malaise]

Mine's a Whirlpool.  The instruction booklet for the installation had many pages so that you would know not to plug it in to the toaster oven.  There really weren't any operation instructions.  Still easy to use, but somehow I doubt there's any way to turn off the wrinkle guard feature or the stupid buzzer.

Whirlpool is the suck.  We outfitted our house with all stainless steel Whirlpool appliances during the remodel.  This was 2015.  The dishwasher has already been replaced, the oven has had several issues with the door, the ice maker broke a year in on the fridge, the drawers in the fridge have broken.  Just crap appliances with horrific customer service.  Never again.

 

[General Malaise]

The chick got up from her seat and started to walk away from the area we were in... I thought to myself "great... finally".  And she ended up going behind the grouping of seats we were in to LAY DOWN and continue to watch her videos with the sound blasting.  I got one lady to lock eyes with me and we did a kind of  to each other.  I was THIS close to saying something, but I ended up just moving to another area.

Cell phones have made many of us lazy and oblivious/inconsiderate jerks.

Public service announcement to any of you reading this who have watched videos on your phone in the midst of others without headphones......... STOP IT.

It's awful, no doubt.  But barring a confrontation, why not just jam ear buds into your ears to block it out?  That's what I do at bars now when some dildo does this.  If a person hops on my train and is on the phone barking into it and sits anywhere near me, I just get up and relocate.  I cannot ####### stand listening to people scream into the phone.  And almost invariably, its like a one sided conversation where the other person doesn't even exist.  We have absolutely NO self awareness anymore.  No etiquette, no manners, no self awareness.  

 

[nirad3]

It's awful, no doubt.  But barring a confrontation, why not just jam ear buds into your ears to block it out?  That's what I do at bars now when some dildo does this.  If a person hops on my train and is on the phone barking into it and sits anywhere near me, I just get up and relocate.  I cannot ####### stand listening to people scream into the phone.  And almost invariably, its like a one sided conversation where the other person doesn't even exist.  We have absolutely NO self awareness anymore.  No etiquette, no manners, no self awareness.  

I should probably pack an extra pair of buds.  I only travel with my noise-cancelling over-the-ear headphones (for movies on the flight).  I would throw those on to deal with these turds but I'd be worried that I'd run out of batteries mid-flight.  

I simply cannot fathom how these people think they're not annoying people around them.  It's actually pretty sad.

 

[offdee]

I should probably pack an extra pair of buds.  I only travel with my noise-cancelling over-the-ear headphones (for movies on the flight).  I would throw those on to deal with these turds but I'd be worried that I'd run out of batteries mid-flight.  

I simply cannot fathom how these people think they're not annoying people around them.  It's actually pretty sad.

Just say to them "Maam/Sir, could you please put your earbuds in?"

Even if they don't have earbuds, they'll hopefully get the hint.

 

[nirad3]

Just say to them "Maam/Sir, could you please put your earbuds in?"

Even if they don't have earbuds, they'll hopefully get the hint.

If they lack the self-awareness to even do this, I seriously they doubt they would give two poops what I say.

 

[offdee]

If they lack the self-awareness to even do this, I seriously they doubt they would give two poops what I say.

Yeah, but it would make yourself feel better and you'd get a lot of virtual hi-fives from all the people around you who are annoyed as well.

 

[psychobillies]

I simply cannot fathom how these people think they're not annoying people around them.  It's actually pretty sad.

I think it's more that they find themselves fascinating, and they think they are doing you a favor by letting you listen.  Kind of like people who turn the music in their car up so that everyone in a 3 block radius gets to hear how cool they are.

 

[arrow1]

I was behind a lady at the grocery store checkout,  and she was holding phone like a slice of pizza with the speaker on barking into it.  When she got to the checker, she continued on blabbing and ignored the person checking her out.

 

[Binky The Doormat]

I was behind a lady at the grocery store checkout,  and she was holding phone like a slice of pizza with the speaker on barking into it.  When she got to the checker, she continued on blabbing and ignored the person checking her out.

doosher

 

[Osaurus]

went through this twice in the Miami airport just recently ...

btw ...the MIA airport could be the WORST airport and the most obnoxious people in an airport I have ever experienced ...

 Winner. 

 

[nirad3]

Yeah, but it would make yourself feel better and you'd get a lot of virtual hi-fives from all the people around you who are annoyed as well.

You're probably right but I'm not a pot-stirrer and with my luck, the person would be psycho and would start taking a video of me, going off on me for being a jerk and then posting it online somewhere.

 

[offdee]

You're probably right but I'm not a pot-stirrer and with my luck, the person would be psycho and would start taking a video of me, going off on me for being a jerk and then posting it online somewhere.

The beauty of that line though is you're not being a jerk at all.  And you have to literally say no other words. If she comes back at you being psycho I'm sure the others around you would speak up.  AND if she started going off on you, you know damn well everyone else around you would be filming HER being an idiot.

But, I get it. Easy to say when not in the moment.

 

[TwinTurbo]

Whirlpool is the suck.  We outfitted our house with all stainless steel Whirlpool appliances during the remodel.  This was 2015.  The dishwasher has already been replaced, the oven has had several issues with the door, the ice maker broke a year in on the fridge, the drawers in the fridge have broken.  Just crap appliances with horrific customer service.  Never again.

+1. Whirlpool is the worst. Same story. Entire kitchen of Whirlpool appliances. All of them have some issue and need to be replaced with very light usage. Zero quality.

 

[belljr]

I'm afraid to say anything about our whirlpools

 

[El Floppo]

yes to the playing the phone on speaker/video/phone mode out loud. so stupid and obviously wrong... I've been telling my kids the simple laws of humanity so much and for so long, 10yo floppinha wanted to turn it into an acronym.

generally, people are going out to be #######s; when somebody does something wrong its a factor of being: stupid, selfish, lazy, thoughtless/inconsiderate. of course- those are all hallmarks of being an #######, so

 

[El Floppo]

I mentioned this elsewhere...

I take Floppinha to school in the mornings by NYC public transportation- usually a city bus. 

lots of outloud phones in all manner (these are stupid and inconsiderate people).

but lately, we've had a person get on and sit near us a few times... the first time, I sat and dealt with it... the next two- I had to get us up and move.

cigarette stink.

city transportation often has homeless or people without the facilities (mental of physical) for regular bathing and overall cleanliness.. so I'm used to stink. and I'm used to smokers and occasional waft of the smell right after they've had a smoke.

but cigarette stink this bad? got me wondering whether this person- who by all reckoning looks like a normal person on their way to work at the morning rush with different outfits on each day- is aware at all that they reek enough to make us move? they have a 15' radius of putrid stink around them each day (regardless of their outfit). 

 

[nirad3]

I mentioned this elsewhere...

I take Floppinha to school in the mornings by NYC public transportation- usually a city bus. 

lots of outloud phones in all manner (these are stupid and inconsiderate people).

but lately, we've had a person get on and sit near us a few times... the first time, I sat and dealt with it... the next two- I had to get us up and move.

cigarette stink.

city transportation often has homeless or people without the facilities (mental of physical) for regular bathing and overall cleanliness.. so I'm used to stink. and I'm used to smokers and occasional waft of the smell right after they've had a smoke.

but cigarette stink this bad? got me wondering whether this person- who by all reckoning looks like a normal person on their way to work at the morning rush with different outfits on each day- is aware at all that they reek enough to make us move? they have a 15' radius of putrid stink around them each day (regardless of their outfit). 

I really think it depends on the smoker.  My wife smoked for like 20 years total and for the first 9-10 years of our marriage.  Not once did I ever notice the "smoke stank" on her.

I have a poker buddy who I hang out with from time to time and man, that guy REEKS of cigarette smoke anytime he comes back from a smoke break.  

 

[TwinTurbo]

Taxi or Uber drivers that don't turn on the AC. Its over 90 F in NYC bro.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

I would like to ban jeans/pants with artfully torn holes in them.  Knock it off, idiots.  That hasn't looked cool since 1985.

Stop it.

 

[offdee]

I would like to ban jeans/pants with artfully torn holes in them.  Knock it off, idiots.  That hasn't looked cool since 1985.

Stop it.

It's at the height of fashion right now.  And the reality is all of "1985" is back in :style: again.  Oversized clothes, grunge, tie dyed, neon, etc.

 

[belljr]

It's at the height of fashion right now.  And the reality is all of "1985" is back in :style: again.  Oversized clothes, grunge, tie dyed, neon, etc.

Sweet I'm back baby

 

[Dan Lambskin]

Maybe I mentioned these already but I have two, both kitchen sink related…

I hate it when I’m finished scrubbing a pan or pot that doesn’t go into the dishwasher and the wife sticks her hand under the water as I’m rinsing off the recently but no longer 100% clean and disinfected pan/pot. 

People who don’t do the dishes leaving egg shells, plastic, potato peelings, onion peels, snicker wrappers, paper towels, tea bags and everything else that belongs in the trash can in the sink. Clean up your #### so I don’t have to stick my hands into that slop and throw it away for you. 

wife does this…drives me crazy

My wife has a habit of telling door to door solicitors to come back when her husband is home. I’ve told her a thousand times, I don’t need a new roof, gutters, rodent killers, lawn fertilizer or anything else. If we decide we have a need, we’ll go looking for them. Drives me mad. 

yeah wife did this once, guy came back and was all pissed when I told him to go away.  “I drove over an hour…”

me:  

 

[Leroy Hoard]

I would like to ban jeans/pants with artfully torn holes in them.  Knock it off, idiots.  That hasn't looked cool since 1985.

Stop it.

I blame The Ramones.

https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.40b5e4a4efd9c1a97faeff0e9b3bd96c?

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

People who feed Seagulls at the beach. 

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

It's at the height of fashion right now.  And the reality is all of "1985" is back in :style: again.  Oversized clothes, grunge, tie dyed, neon, etc.

It was stupid then too.  The Ramones are pretty much cool no matter what.  Imitating them- not so much.

 

[Osaurus]

That jogger in Central Park who feeds the squirrels nuts and they follow him en masse like the Pied Piper of Nuttyville

 

[Keith R]

That jogger in Central Park who feeds the squirrels nuts and they follow him en masse like the Pied Piper of Nuttyville

That would probably be amusing the first time I saw it

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

That would probably be amusing the first time I saw it

It isnt. I just watched. Im with Osaurus on this one. 

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

he was holding phone like a slice of pizza with the speaker on barking into it.  

I hate everyone who does this. Every last one of them.

Its honestly a deal breaker for me. If I see you doing that in a fashion that suggests this isn't a one time thing - I judge you to be a moron. I know we're not supposed to judge but I judge them. MO-RON!. 

 

[El Floppo]

That jogger in Central Park who feeds the squirrels nuts and they follow him en masse like the Pied Piper of Nuttyville

tourists do love the squirrels though. it's a bizarre but strange thing...they act like they're seeing some exotic creature from myths and legends.

 

[Ron Swanson]

tourists do love the squirrels though. it's a bizarre but strange thing...they act like they're seeing some exotic creature from myths and legends.

Same thing with the porpoises here. People actually stop in the middle of the road to watch and video them.

 

[El Floppo]

Same thing with the porpoises here. People actually stop in the middle of the road to watch and video them.

yeah... well... a squirrel ain't saving your life if you're drowning in the Jackie O reservoir

 

[Leroy Hoard]

People who feed Seagulls at the beach. 

Pretty much like planning your day around feeding the rats.

 

[ChiefD]

tourists do love the squirrels though. it's a bizarre but strange thing...they act like they're seeing some exotic creature from myths and legends.

I have about 5 squirrels that routinely terrorize my yard. I would like nothing better than to murder them in cold blood and not feel guilty about it.

The problem is two of them are white squirrels, so if they went missing the neighborhood Karen's would launch a full investigation.

 

[Binky The Doormat]

I have about 5 squirrels that routinely terrorize my yard. I would like nothing better than to murder them in cold blood and not feel guilty about it.

The problem is two of them are white squirrels, so if they went missing the neighborhood Karen's would launch a full investigation.

yes.

I have a dryvit house and lots of old and very large trees.  

The squirrels like to chew holes in our house.  

I too wish to kill these vermin. 

 

[Leroy Hoard]

I once plunked a squirrel in the head with a quarter. Didn't want to do it, but it kept inching closer and closer in a semi menacing way. That squirrel never bothered me again.

 

[Mookie]

That one tiny rock that somehow gets into your tightly laced shoe, which forces you to engage in an internal dilemma over whether to remove it, hope it shifts to a new spot in your shoe that doesn't affect your gait, or just suck it up and be bothered until you get home and take off your shoes.  Eventually, it almost always leads to having to find a place to sit, untie, remove, and shake out your shoe before retying and resuming your busy day. 

 

[belljr]

I have about 5 squirrels that routinely terrorize my yard. I would like nothing better than to murder them in cold blood and not feel guilty about it.

The problem is two of them are white squirrels, so if they went missing the neighborhood Karen's would launch a full investigation.

Its why I have a red rider 200 shot bb gun

 

[nirad3]

Its why I have a red rider 200 shot bb gun

I don't recall whether it was a crow or a squirrel but I do remember shooting something from a decent distance in my buddy's backyard when we were 10 or 11 or so.  Vermin, all of 'em.

 

[Drunken knight]

I don't recall whether it was a crow or a squirrel but I do remember shooting something from a decent distance in my buddy's backyard when we were 10 or 11 or so.  Vermin, all of 'em.

womp rats?

 

[BeTheMatch]

I once plunked a squirrel in the head with a quarter. Didn't want to do it, but it kept inching closer and closer in a semi menacing way. That squirrel never bothered me again.

Felt you owed it to him.

 

[Binky The Doormat]

I once plunked a squirrel in the head with a quarter. Didn't want to do it, but it kept inching closer and closer in a semi menacing way. That squirrel never bothered me again.

Felt you owed it to him.

nice ...was really hoping @Judge Smails would drop this in ...

but you gave it enough time 

 

[zoobird]

Can't stand when restaurants deliberately create confusion about tips.  Yesterday noticed that a place we've been 8-10 times before included the tip in the original bill.  They didn't mention it to us and it doesn't say anywhere that they do that.  No idea if they've done it before and we've double tipped or this is a new thing.  

 

[DallasDMac]

Can't stand when restaurants deliberately create confusion about tips.  Yesterday noticed that a place we've been 8-10 times before included the tip in the original bill.  They didn't mention it to us and it doesn't say anywhere that they do that.  No idea if they've done it before and we've double tipped or this is a new thing.  

We ate at a restaurant Saturday night with a group of 11. I know tips are often included when in large groups, but this one tipped itself 25%! That's ludicrous and a bit presumptuous  about the quality of service they provided.

 

[facook]

The use of the word "seen."  For example:  people will say "I seen this cool car the other day."

People who pronounce an "L" at the end of "saw."  

"I sawl Joel Embiid at Wawa the other day."  Otherwise intelligent people sound like nincompoops.

 

[KarmaPolice]

I know I've ranted about this before, but it still grinds my gears that the middle lane is the slow lane now.   I #### you not, on the way to work on the interstate within the 5 mile drive there was 25-30 cars in the middle lane, 0 cars in the right lane and me and another driver passing them all easily going 77 or so.  I don't get it.