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Can we discuss pet peeves here? (11 Viewers)

RG623 said:
Mrs. Rannous said:
RG623 said:
When having a sit down dinner, people who start eating before the rest of the group has been served. My FIL does this every time. For Christmas, we started with a pasta course. Served him his plate first, and he starts eating before the next person got their plate. There were 6 of us total, so it took all of 2 minutes for everyone else to get their portion. Really gets under my skin, especially when people don’t wait for the host/person who prepared the meal.
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Maybe serve him last?
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Fair. Just a basic courtesy that is lost on him.
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What is obvious courtesy to you may seem ridiculous to him. I lean more towards once the food is served go ahead and eat
 
the moops said:
RG623 said:
Mrs. Rannous said:
RG623 said:
When having a sit down dinner, people who start eating before the rest of the group has been served. My FIL does this every time. For Christmas, we started with a pasta course. Served him his plate first, and he starts eating before the next person got their plate. There were 6 of us total, so it took all of 2 minutes for everyone else to get their portion. Really gets under my skin, especially when people don’t wait for the host/person who prepared the meal.
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Maybe serve him last?
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Fair. Just a basic courtesy that is lost on him.
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What is obvious courtesy to you may seem ridiculous to him. I lean more towards once the food is served go ahead and eat
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That just means you were raised in a barn. If one of the meals is going to take a while, that person should tell the others not to wait. A home meal is not the middle school cafeteria.
 
Scoresman said:
I thought it was common dinner table courtesy to wait.
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To me, it is an old-fashioned norm that I normally follow because I know how upset some people get over it but I don't really agree with it. If I don't have my food yet, I think it is rude to force others to wait while their food gets cold and tell others to start right away.
 
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the moops said:
Scoresman said:
I thought it was common dinner table courtesy to wait.
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Seems like one those things that should go away. Let people enjoy their food at the temperature it was meant to be eaten at
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It sucks to be the host and by the time you sit down, people are close to finished or have already commented on the dishes you've made while you were not there. However, if it's something where each dish takes time to prepare, like making individual burritos or tacos or something, then I'd say people should start eating. But something like serving pasta? Yeah, you can wait two minutes while everyone is served.

Also, people who start eating right away also tend to be people who inhale their food without rest, so this would make it doubly true.
 
Scoresman said:
the moops said:
Scoresman said:
I thought it was common dinner table courtesy to wait.
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Seems like one those things that should go away. Let people enjoy their food at the temperature it was meant to be eaten at
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It sucks to be the host and by the time you sit down, people are close to finished or have already commented on the dishes you've made while you were not there. However, if it's something where each dish takes time to prepare, like making individual burritos or tacos or something, then I'd say people should start eating. But something like serving pasta? Yeah, you can wait two minutes while everyone is served.

Also, people who start eating right away also tend to be people who inhale their food without rest, so this would make it doubly true.
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Yup. If I know the serving time will result in someone’s served food getting cold, will tell them to dig in and not wait. But, if it’s just a matter of getting all people served and seated to enjoy the meal together (which I would argue is the whole point of the Xmas dinner), it’s not an unreasonable ask for someone to wait a couple minutes.
 
Scoresman said:
Every ******* website now with a popup asking you to accept their cookie policy. Is there a setting somewhere where I can just make these go away? Popup blockers don't block it.
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I think these are required by law (maybe in the EU if not here -- but if a site wants to be accessed from anywhere then it needs to comply with regulations from anywhere)
 
I know this one has to be in here but my god does it annoy me when a person has rising inflection or upspeak when they talk, especially when not asking a question. It's irritating and unnecessary.

I listen to podcasts and there's a commercial for another podcast called 'Your Greatest Fears' and the subjects in the advert all have this. That 20 second ad makes me want to punch a telephone pole. My biggest fear is being stuck next to a person who talks like this. Gawd.
 
Scoresman said:
Every ******* website now with a popup asking you to accept their cookie policy. Is there a setting somewhere where I can just make these go away? Popup blockers don't block it.
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I don't know about other browsers, but Brave does a good job blocking those if you choose to.

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Mrs. Rannous said:
jhib said:
This has probably been mentioned before, but another car one that's been driving me batty lately: people who can't make a simple turn without drifting in the opposite direction first.
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My dad used to call those haycart turns. He wasn't wrong.
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On this stretch of road just a couple days ago, I was in the middle lane with a line of vehicles ahead in the left lane, each making a left turn. The first three were all decent-sized trucks (not a semi, but a dump truck, a garbage truck, and a big pickup). All three made the turn while staying in their lane the whole time. The fourth was a little coupe with size and handling that apparently required drifting a third of the way over the dividing line on the right to make that same turn (it was right in front of me at that point, but I was ready for it). :rolleyes:
 
General Malaise said:
I know this one has to be in here but my god does it annoy me when a person has rising inflection or upspeak when they talk, especially when not asking a question. It's irritating and unnecessary.
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I hated this also and then started doing it. It's not a good habit. I think upspeak is best reserved for statements that are either controversial or unknown in fact to the speaker. It should indicate a kind of questioning tone about the whole endeavor of speaking that which was spoken.
 
General Malaise said:
I know this one has to be in here but my god does it annoy me when a person has rising inflection or upspeak when they talk, especially when not asking a question. It's irritating and unnecessary.

I listen to podcasts and there's a commercial for another podcast called 'Your Greatest Fears' and the subjects in the advert all have this. That 20 second ad makes me want to punch a telephone pole. My biggest fear is being stuck next to a person who talks like this. Gawd.
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In other words... Australians.
 
General Malaise said:
I know this one has to be in here but my god does it annoy me when a person has rising inflection or upspeak when they talk, especially when not asking a question. It's irritating and unnecessary.

I listen to podcasts and there's a commercial for another podcast called 'Your Greatest Fears' and the subjects in the advert all have this. That 20 second ad makes me want to punch a telephone pole. My biggest fear is being stuck next to a person who talks like this. Gawd.
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Im not sure if it’s the same thing but on national sports radio broadcast I hate the way Damon Amendolara pronounces his name, it’s like he pauses between every syllable
I’m Day Mon…Ah Men Do La Ra
 
Destination weddings. Sure, I'm really excited to burn several thousand dollars, use 3 days of vacation, and board my dogs just to fly to an island I have no interest in visiting and staying at an all-inclusive resort with middling food and watered-down booze. This has to be a scam where the betrothed get a free wedding/honeymoon on the back of us schmucks who are paying double the usual rate for our rooms, right?

In before the "Just Don't Go" responses. Sometimes it's not that simple.
 
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scorchy said:
Destination weddings. Sure, I'm really excited to burn several thousand dollars, use 3 days of vacation, and board my dogs just to fly to and island I have no interest in visiting and staying at an all-inclusive resort with middling food and watered-down booze. This has to be a scam where the betrothed get a free wedding/honeymoon on the back of us schmucks who are paying double the usual rate for our rooms, right?

In before the "Just Don't Go" responses. Sometimes it's not that simple.
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It's always that simple. The answer is "no". No explanation is ever required.
 
grateful zed said:
or "dont feed my dog people food!!!"

those critters are scavengers, FOR GODS SAKE !!!!
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That has no bearing on anything. Don't feed the dog people food. There are several things in it that can be toxic to dogs. And dogs haven't been wild animals for several millenia. They aren't even wolf-adjacent.
 
Every dog I’ve ever owned has been a walking garbage disposal

My 20 lb beagle dachshund mix ate 2 advent calendars and bucket of fudge this Christmas season. Barfed a lot but she was fine
 
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