What is your pet peeve of the day?

[Amethyst]

When I lived in S. Fla, one of the ways you could tell a "native" was that they never seemed to park in their driveways (let alone keep vehicles in the garage if there was one); always either parked on the lawn, or partway up on the sidewalk. One guy told me it was to keep the white cement driveway "clean," which says a lot about how some people maintain their cars!

Amethyst

This one's a no-brainer: jackasses who think the sidewalks are part of their driveways..

 

[Walt34]

The incessant onslaught of advertising from all sources. I don''t watch TV anymore because of it so the advertisers, at least in my case, have reached the "tipping point" that I don't see any of their ads.

I used to subscribe to half a dozen or so magazines but when advertising exceeded content I began dropping them. There is one remaining radio station that I'll listen to in the car but it is new and hasn't built up a base of advertisers yet. When it does I'll turn the radio off.

May all marketers get lumps of coal next Thursday.

 

[HFWR]

I abhor marketing, commercials, and commercialism in general. But, having said that, get out there and shop! My portfolio needs you...


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[aja8888]

This one's a no-brainer: jackasses who think the sidewalks are part of their driveways. I walk through a couple of developments and the homes in the newer of the two (mine) all have two-vehicle garages and two- or four-vehicle driveways. Some owners use the garage for everything BUT vehicles, some owners have more vehicles than bedrooms, some owners keep a boat or other type of trailer (in violation of HOA rules), some owners seem to have company every night and some are apparently making a statement that they pay enough property tax to own the sidewalk, too.

Back home in "Wis-CAHN-sin," a lot of folks would be waking up with tickets under their wipers but, in Texas, the almighty Ford F-150 is supreme, even above the law.

I used to like J.J. Watt when he was a Badger but, as a Texan, he's a shill for every ad agency in town. And he's got all the "drug store cowboys" buying one of those stupid pickups!

So, here endeth my pet peeve. Don't EVEN get me started on dogs, especially those feral Chihuahuas that run in packs in the OTHER development (the one I walk through to count my blessings that I don't have to LIVE there).

Hey Tex, or should I call you a Cheeshead (kidding, of course)....

Welcome to Texas! It took me a long time to get here, but I got here as fast as I could! The heck with the snow and ice....(I still have relatives in Tomahawk...they like to visit between January and March (every year!)).

You have to love the pick up trucks, it's our history and so is having guns and many vehicles. Get used to it. Houston (or Katy) is not Madison.

We love boats too. Actually, most Texans like fun and we try to have a lot of it. Much better fishing here than in Lake Superior (if you can get through the ice).

J.J.Watt is for real and a good athlete and person. He is destined for Hollywood though, so enjoy him before it's over.

And if you don't like it here, Wisconsin is still taking applications....

 

[ls99]

All the so called free speech advocates who are offended by everything not matching their point of view.

 

[Dash man]

All the so called free speech advocates who are offended by everything not matching their point of view.

+1


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[samclem]

All the so called free speech advocates [-]who are offended by[/-] try to censor everything not matching their point of view.

My modification. And I'd add: Those who 'get offended' at the drop of a hat, and use it as a cudgel to prevent expression of ideas.

 

[ExFlyBoy5]

TV commercials...especially this time of year. I normally use a 10 minute pause delay at the beginning of a program, go do something else and then zip through them effortlessly.

The duration of the commercial breaks seems so much longer lately. I'm barely getting enough pause built up in 15 minutes to be commercial free.

And yes, they are blasting the volume on them again.
And repeating the same ones ad nauseum.

I swear I will never eat a Hershey's Kiss again. I'm afraid I might hear bells and reach for chocolate...think Pavlov's dogs.

Oh the commercials are horrible this year. How long is Toyotathon? 13 months? And all the Nissan commercials that run again and again and again. I know,I know, NOW is the best time to buy!!!

Sent from my mobile device so please excuse grammatical errors.

 

[Dash man]

Received another calendar in the mail today. Between realtors we haven't seen in years and various charities we've contributed to or participated in events with, we've received eight calendars for 2015. They all go to waste because we use our phone and computer calendars.


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[Texconsin]

Hey Tex, or should I call you a Cheeshead (kidding, of course)....

Welcome to Texas! It took me a long time to get here, but I got here as fast as I could! The heck with the snow and ice....(I still have relatives in Tomahawk...they like to visit between January and March (every year!)).

You have to love the pick up trucks, it's our history and so is having guns and many vehicles. Get used to it. Houston (or Katy) is not Madison.

We love boats too. Actually, most Texans like fun and we try to have a lot of it. Much better fishing here than in Lake Superior (if you can get through the ice).

J.J.Watt is for real and a good athlete and person. He is destined for Hollywood though, so enjoy him before it's over.

And if you don't like it here, Wisconsin is still taking applications....

I love Texas; this wasn't about my new home (of nearly 8 years), but about pet peeves; I gare-rone-tee it that I had some back in America's Dairyland!

But, NO kidding, I'm definitely a Cheesehead and a Native Cheesehead at that.

I remember opening day of fishing (May 5, 1979) on Lake Nokomis ("Lake of No Fish" in paleface lingo) near Tomahawk...we got up at 5, out on the lake by 5:30 and it was SNOWING by 6. We got off the lake, went into town for breakfast and there were 4 inches on the ground by the time we finished our Blue Plate Specials. Just 24 years old, it was the LAST time I bought a fishing license. PHOOEY! (I fear I'll catch a water moccasin or gator here...the good thing about winter is that the really bad actors are killed off.)

Can't see having a boat. At least, with a motorcycle, I can go from Point A to Point B. (My best friend - a Microsoft man - HAD a boat in Seattle, and Seattle is an awesome place to boat. He'd agree that the two best days in a boat owner's life is the day they buy their boat and the day they sell it.)

J.J. Watt is great, but so is pecan pie and I don't want EITHER, breakfast, lunch and supper.

Maybe someday, I'll do what my brother does...live in The Villages, Florida in the winter and Madison, Wisconsin in the summer.

But, don't worry; wherever I am, I'll still have pet peeves. I'm an ex-Army SSG and enlisted men (or NCO's) aren't happy if they aren't complaining about something!

 

[Texconsin]

One more...

MyPillow.com ads. I checked out a couple of reviews, including a particularly scathing one on YouTube. Buy your pillows on sale at Walmart or JCP and save a lot of money!

 

[aja8888]

Maybe someday, I'll do what my brother does...live in The Villages, Florida in the winter and Madison, Wisconsin in the summer.

A lot of us are ex GI's here, including me. There is at least one member here that live in the Villages in Florida 1/2 the year. Not a bad deal, if you can swing it.

 

[Tortoise]

I don't know if it's a pet peeve, but it's a peeve nonetheless. I caught a bad cold starting last Friday. I still had to get my sick body up and out the door on Saturday so that we could celebrate my mom's 90th birthday. My peeve is not the celebration, but it's the fact that I caught a cold the day before. Then today, I called the cancer center where I am currently undergoing radiation therapy. I wanted the day off from therapy because I am still felling pretty crummy, but my doctor's nurse said I still had to drag myself into the clinic to stay on schedule. I just had to wear a mask to keep my germs to myself. Seems like I can't get a break.

 

[easysurfer]

My pet peeve of the day is attempting to update a password after reading the password hints, such as "use special characters" but clicking on enter, the site says something like "special characters not allowed" .

 

[W2R]

My pet peeve for today is people who LOSE THEIR MINDS when they get behind the wheel during the holidays. They drive in erratic, screwy ways, for example suddenly making a 90 degree right turn from the left lane of an 8 lane divided street at a bazillion miles an hour in traffic.

Don't they realize that killing someone or themselves is not really what they want to do right before Christmas? Do they really want their loved ones to never have a happy Christmas again? How about the loved ones of anyone else that should happen to die in an accident with them?

Sheesh. I'd like to think they are all on drugs or alcohol, but sadly I suspect that a lot of them are just stupid.

Yeah, I'm staying home and out of the traffic more than usual this week.

 

[splitwdw]

Just got the most evil of holiday cards...........has sparkles on the outside and inside!

 

[John Galt III]

The incessant onslaught of advertising from all sources. I don''t watch TV anymore because of it so the advertisers, at least in my case, have reached the "tipping point" that I don't see any of their ads.

I used to subscribe to half a dozen or so magazines but when advertising exceeded content I began dropping them. There is one remaining radio station that I'll listen to in the car but it is new and hasn't built up a base of advertisers yet. When it does I'll turn the radio off.

May all marketers get lumps of coal next Thursday.

+1. It's just not worth watching TV anymore. Too many commercials. I now do a lot of book reading instead. Sometimes I'll watch a PBS show, partly because I like the content, but also because there are no ******* commercials ruining it.

 

[John Galt III]

Inadequate or non-existent labeling on products. Sometimes there is no list of ingredients at all, or just a website listed for "more information". Sometimes the label says it contains X but does not state how much X it contains. Or a useless category like "other ingredients", with none of the "other ingredients" named. Very annoying.

 

[6miths]

I'd have to go with plastic packaging that is nearly impossible to open without a sharp blade or scissors and often even difficult and dangerous with them. Also a problem to get things back in the packaging if product needs to be returned. Sure it's been mentioned many times before.

 

[Tom52]

+1. It's just not worth watching TV anymore. Too many commercials. I now do a lot of book reading instead. Sometimes I'll watch a PBS show, partly because I like the content, but also because there are no ******* commercials ruining it.

+1000 I was watching a show awhile back and the later in the show it got, the more commercials they ran. I started counting at the next commercial break and they ran a total of 21 commercials that lasted 7 minutes. But I notice that they end one show and immediately start the next with no commercial breaks. I guess they figure they want to get you hooked before you change the channel. Then once you are hooked they commercial you to death.

 

[TromboneAl]

The incessant onslaught of advertising from all sources. I don''t watch TV anymore because of it so the advertisers, at least in my case, have reached the "tipping point" that I don't see any of their ads.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way.

The TV solution is Tivo or some other recording system. The problem is that Tivo itself puts ads up with their displays.

One Tivo generation back, I could skip ahead 30 seconds at a time with a click of a button. I knew that, for example, the first break in the news would take eight clicks.

They still have that, but now it doesn't jump instantaneously. That is, it scrolls through the thirty seconds. So not it's useless. It's faster to fast-forward.

My guess is that they got pressure or kickbacks from advertisers who figured that if it wasn't instantaneous, you might see a flash of something interesting in the ad.

Maybe I'm too cynical.

 

[TromboneAl]

I get bummed every time I encounter glass on the side of the road. People throw beer bottles out of their car just for the heck of it, and I get flats because of that.

 

[Rustward]

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One Tivo generation back, I could skip ahead 30 seconds at a time with a click of a button. I knew that, for example, the first break in the news would take eight clicks.

They still have that, but now it doesn't jump instantaneously. That is, it scrolls through the thirty seconds. So not it's useless. It's faster to fast-forward.

My guess is that they got pressure or kickbacks from advertisers who figured that if it wasn't instantaneous, you might see a flash of something interesting in the ad.

We noticed that, also. What we have decided is that this gives us a few more seconds to count the clicks. Certain advertisements in certain shows require a certain number of 30 second clicks (skip-aheads) to get past the commercials. . . . and the number of clicks (30 second skip-aheads) required to get past the ad also varies by program, and even at which part of the program in which the ad occurs.

So if you are watching something for the first time, you can just experiment with the skip ahead, or do some ckicks and count them.
I like to watch Forensic Files, which has three commercials (at least in this market). The first commercial is typically 3 minutes (six clicks), second commercial takes 8 clicks (four minutes) and the third commercial is 3 minutes, requiring 6 clicks to bypass. Sometimes this changes by a click or two, and usually in the last commercial if at all, but not often.

Should I do something more productive with my life?

Years ago we purchased a VCR (I believe it was a Panasonic, but don't hold me to that) that had an automatic commercial skip function during payback. It did seem to kindof work, and I am not sure how it worked (maybe detecting increased volume, I dunno). Can't recall whatever happened to this unit, but I don't see any of them available now.

 

[daylatedollarshort]

People who ask us to remove our well behaved, friendly little dog from either the public side walk or from our own front yard because their aggressive dogs are trying to go after him and they are bothered by their dogs leash pulling and aggressive behavior.

If people can't control their own barking and snarling dogs, even on a leash, and keep them out of other people's yards, they shouldn't be walking them in public, especially without a muzzle. Most of the dog owners in our neighborhood are super nice and so are their dogs, so it really stands out when a household or two has a mean dog they can't control and feel it is okay to take it out in public.

 

[ProspectiveBum]

Daylate, is your dog on a leash or fenced, or is he or she roaming your front yard/neighborhood freely?