Pet Peeves

I...um..noticed a few peeves about "gay" related topics. Just to let you know that by me saying something is gay, I did not mean people. I meant its just...weird, pointless, and yeah I did not mean to embarrass someone.

Oh yeah I got another peeve. When people send the same email like so many times. And I hate it when people say um...uh...(and all those substitute words for thinking. Ew, ew, ew, its a bad habit so stop it (the um at the beginning of this wasto express my embarrasment for mentioning "gay").

[Frivs]

lol, my friend and I were just talking about this the other day. We have decided our biggest pet peeve is stupid people. Not people with mental disabilities, people who don't use any common sense. We walk around our high school shaking our heads and muttering "stupid people" under our breaths *g*. Its amazing how stupid people can be

Oh! I thought of another, how about people that talk to you with bad breath. Your thinking, while htey are talking to you, "get away from, me! you stink..." and they just keep on talking to you as though they enjoy poisoning you with their tinky breath.

[Dee]

I remember when I was in seventh grade, I had this HUGE pet peeve about a fad a lot like the "gay" one... everybody was saying "Jewish"! They would say, "That's so Jewish!" whenever they were talking about something, and they could mean it like it was bad or good, it didn't really matter. I thought it was really dumb, and I got expecially peeved, because I have a lot of Polish and Israeli ancestors who were Jewish. almost every man on my dad's side of the family (except my dad and grandpa) were rabbis. I got so mad at these two guys who used over and over again after I asked them to stop aboutt 20 times. I yelled soooo loud. But it was worth it... the looks on their faces, to see meek little Ariel, nose in a book, yelling at the most popular idiots in school... it was such fun.

[Dragon Writer]

Oh, and about all the chat speak that everyone hates, let me just say that it may just be instinctive. I mean, after only a little while in chat, I've found myself saying brb instead of be right back. It's easy to slip into the habit.

i never like say anything like "thats so Jewish," its never carried around where i am. but yeah the "gay" one has. its rather funny. i have a nasty habit of sayng "gay" evening being in a place where gay people are accepted, its rather mean. i know that. just have to watch out who i tell this to because on of my teachers are.

[ShadowWizard]

My pet peeves.
1. I hate it when people who are really, really skinny, and don't have an ounce of fat on them, say that they are fat. I am fat. It make me feel bad because what does that make me? A beached whale?
I'll post more when I think of them.

[lostx in memory]

Pet peeves:
<LI> Fakers
<LI> Chat-speak
<LI> People who follow blindly when they know nothing of their cause.
<LI> Liars/cheaters
<LI> Bad spelling and grammar

[Kathy Li]

pet peeves: that the rest of the board world is so into wasting bandwidth that we have to continually point new folks to the Board FAQ.

lostx (and any other new members): please check out the Board FAQ and the Avatar guidelines. You're going to need to downsize the avatar a smidge--the largest we allow here is 100x100 pixels. Welcome aboard!

[Cress]

My pet peeve is people who believe whatever they hear without hearing facts to back it up. When someone hears about something and then they don't take the time to really look into the background of it and just base their opinion off something that doesn't have any substance.
Fashion is another. Why should we dress and act the way someone (who even decides what's in fashion) says? Why can't we just do what we feel like?

[Goddess Cookie]

My pet peeve is when someone chews gum reallllllllllllllllllllly loud and it just smacks and smacks and it gets annoying.

[Kathy Li]

Thanks, GC for reading the avatar guidelines!! You're aces!!

Ok, another pet peeve: folks who never turn their turn signals on, and folks who never turn their turn signals off... Well, that and having to do my taxes every year (sigh).

[AlidaART]

I can't stand people who just spout rhetoric. I'm a pretty political person (I'm your good ol' local democratic socialist), but I can deal with conservatives as long as they THINK. Think about what you say. Say what you say because you believe it, and you have a really good reason to believe it. Facts are nice too.

Another (relatedish) one is people who say careless things all the time/misuse the English language/lolerskaters. In the words of John Cleese:

Using the same twenty seven words interspersed with filler noises such as "like" and "you know" is an unacceptable and inefficient form of communication.

Indeed, good sir. Use good vocabulary, and use it to your advantage. I'm not a grammar Nazi, so much, but I like it when what I'm reading is

a) legible
b) has paragraph breaks
c) has good punctuation
d) is sensical
e) makes good use of the English language.

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Wow. I have a lot of pet peeves, huh?

(Oh--slightly more nitpicky: people who don't seem to get Away messages. GAH.)

[Angel_Star]

I find it terribly annoying when people use "gay" to describe everything. Oh, and hearing people make broad, general statements about things when they have no idea what they're talking about, such as "All the democrats I know are bad people." Of course, I asked just how many democrats she knew. It ended up being maybe two or three, because OF COURSE everyone at my perfect little Christian school is Republican. *snort* A majority are, but when somebody claims to be your friend, then say you're wrong for the political party you feel most inclined to, it gets really annoying. Especially when the person is annoying to begin with.

Sorry for the rant. Anyways, another peeve would have to be people trying to distract me when I'm trying to read. They just keep talking and talking and get mad when I don't reply.

Hm...oh! Extreme hypocrites who judge others for doing the same things that they do. I'm not saying that I'm not a hypocrite, 'cause I know for a fact that I am. It just bugs me to see it in others, mainly when it's to such an extreme that the person sees only faults in others and none in theirself. (Which makes me a hypocrite...meh) So I guess that also goes under conceitedness and pride and cockiness.

Whoa...another rant. Oopsie. Hehe...

[Cress]

Ok, I have just discovered my hugest pet peeve. When people sing but can't find the beat! ARG!!!!!!!! We had a girl singing a verse of a song in choir as a solo for our concert, and our director is an AMAZING pianist, and there were a bunch of breaks in the singing, so it was like sing three measures, piano one measure. She COULD NOT come in at the right point after the piano even though our director would look at her and nod at her and make her note REALLY obvious, and then she couldn't hear how fast he was taking it. CRAZY!
That could just be because I've had counting drilled into my brain for almost ten years now by my mother, various piano teachers and various taiko teachers.