What is your pet peeve of the day?

[Blue Collar Guy]

Christmas cards with a pre-printed signature and no personal message whatsoever. Why bother?

Yeah or that they used the work postage machine to save on the stamps.

 

[Blue Collar Guy]

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

+1

 

[Blue Collar Guy]

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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Well they must have heard you. I had to beg to get a wall calendar this year. I went to a late Mass at Christmas and they were all gone.

 

[Blue Collar Guy]

I don't think it's against "the rules" to make noise on a short flight, and they have relaxed the general rules about electronic devices. It was a young happy couple sharing music. I was tempted to pull out my phone and start playing some energetic classical music but I figured 3 jerks were worse than 2. It was a tiny plane, 3 per row total so it wasn't in my best interest to externalize my conflict.

The second leg of the flight featured a one year old with the scream of a Ringwraith; I really felt sorry for the parents, but then was frustrated because they did nothing at all to try to calm the child, didn't even check the diaper.


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There is no decorum on flights anymore.

 

[Blue Collar Guy]

My dog died in August and I really miss her! I miss my walking buddy and all around good friend. We are holding off on any new pets as we approach cutting loose and anticipating a year or two on the road. Great husband and lots of great peeps but there is nothing like a dog to make you feel like the most important and exciting and wonderful thing to have happened all day. Dogs like kids help us see through shear bliss glasses. I'm trying to develop my own bliss glasses but she was such a great reminder to live in the moment! I miss her so much. That is my pet peeve for today and the last several months.

OMG. I got misty eyed reading this post.

 

[Blue Collar Guy]

A movie theater chain in Texas will kick people out for texting or being on their phones during a movie. They run a PSA about it that's pretty good...although the language is pretty strong.

Sent from my mobile device so please excuse grammatical errors.

Nice, I was at a Broadway play, The star actress stopped, turned to the audience and singled out some loser that was distracting her. I was a bit confused I thought it was part of the play for a moment.

 

[Blue Collar Guy]

My pet peeve is stores with only a single stall bathroom. When the ADA laws first were passed, they converted many two-holers into a single large stall. I can see that as a practical necessity. But newer construction mens' bathrooms all seem to have a single stall. It's not a big deal until you need one and some homeless guy is camping in one, the single toilet is plugged and overflowing or simply occupied by long timer.

Hahahah. A homeless guy camped out, hahaha, I cant even type im crying.;

 

[Blue Collar Guy]

Another day, another pet peeve.

Waiting for repairmen to show up. Most places will say AM or PM, but beyond that, forget any communication. In the past, before cell phones, this was somewhat excusable, but now it would be easy for a guy to call and say I'm running early, or late or not coming at all - but it doesn't seem to be any better.

And so I sits and waits..........

They text to my landline they are coming. My landline doesnt get texts.

 

[Lagniappe]

People who feel a need to Skype in a public place, without headphones. I am sitting in a delta sky club, and have had to move three times due to these conversations. It's a crowded lounge, but somehow it is their own personal bubble. I know you want to say goodnight to your son, but I don't need to hear both sides of it. Or the lady watching a movie on her iPad - again with no headphones.

Clearly I am frustrated with my long airport delay.

 

[Meadbh]

Meadbh
We have been getting smoke now for several days on the coast. Luckily for us, it is south of us over the city and Fraser River. Funny how we love the smell of wood smoke when it is controlled. I understand Lake Country is now totally under control?

This feels like Alberta last year!

I didn't realize the smoke had reached Vancouver. Lake Country (Okanagan Centre fire) is 75% contained, 50 hectares.

The fires in Ashcroft and 100 Mile are huge and much destruction has occurred, but Fort McMurray 2016 was on an even larger scale (90,000 evacuations). They are helping, because they know what it's like.

 

[Blue Collar Guy]

People who feel a need to Skype in a public place, without headphones. I am sitting in a delta sky club, and have had to move three times due to these conversations. It's a crowded lounge, but somehow it is their own personal bubble. I know you want to say goodnight to your son, but I don't need to hear both sides of it. Or the lady watching a movie on her iPad - again with no headphones.

Clearly I am frustrated with my long airport delay.

I took part in 1 skype/facetime event, I got a bit dizzy and had a headache, not my thing.

 

[Rustward]

I got a few PM's from the grammar police. Some were people trying to be helpful so my posts were more clearer to readers. Those I appreciated, others wanted to dazzle me with their superior intellect, and were rude, and insulting. I saved them to remind me , who these condescending guys were. Maybe someday I will repost them so they can feel like the heel that they are.

The post you referenced was answered in this one: http://www.early-retirement.org/for...pet-peeve-of-the-day-71670-5.html#post1496055

I think we should all give those posters for whom English is not their native language a break, and I have no problem with trying to decipher broken English. I have been told that English is very difficult to learn.

In fact, my observation is that in many cases, English of someone who learned English as a second (or third or fourth) language is usually better than the English of many who grew up speaking English.

But for those who grew up speaking English, is it too much to expect them to not mess up the most common misuses of words -- then/than, your/you're, lose/loose . . . especially when it is pointed out to them?

When I am reading something that uses a "then" where there should be a "than" I usually have to stop and figure out what the person is trying to say.

If someone writes "A appears in the alphabet earlier then B." it does not make any sense. "Then B [B does what?]"

Now, if you make that mistake in that language that MRG was talking about in the post you referenced, it will not work, or worse, it may seem to work but will give the wrong results.

 

[Dash man]

Well they must have heard you. I had to beg to get a wall calendar this year. I went to a late Mass at Christmas and they were all gone.

If only I had that kind of power...junk mail would come to and end! But I guess the postal service would too.

 

[Marita40]

In terms of writing, I find the hardest forum entries to read are those by native speakers who just won't take the time to use proper punctuation. For example, they do not capitalize letters that should be capitalized, they use commas rather than periods, and the entire message is one big run-on sentence. It is impossible to know where a thought begins and ends. I don't know if this is fashionable or just pure laziness. I suspect the latter. One way or another people don't realize how writing makes an impression on others, whether writers like it or not. This is not the grammar police; it is effective human communication.

I'm on another forum (not this one) with a wide range of ages and every other sentence seems to open with "Welp" or ""I'm not going to lie to you, ..." I'm curious if these phrases are endemic to a certain age group today. I don't even know what "Welp" means.

 

[urn2bfree]

On the iPhone - the indicator that the phone is actually charging is the tiniest of tiny lightning bolts that they could have possibly used way up in the right hand corner.
Why can't there be a more obvious sign that the phone is actually receiving a charge

 

[GalaxyBoy]

Because Apple programmers have the eyes of twenty-somethings!

 

[Marita40]

The small, awkward hole where you pour the Rinse Aid in on the dishwasher door. It inevitably flows out and over the door, wasting a lot.
I have a Bosch so maybe it is just German engineering at its worst.

 

[ChiliPepr]

On the iPhone - the indicator that the phone is actually charging is the tiniest of tiny lightning bolts that they could have possibly used way up in the right hand corner.
Why can't there be a more obvious sign that the phone is actually receiving a charge

Well, my phone vibrates when I plug it in so I know it is charging. I make sure I get a vibration every time it is plugged in and I then know that a plugged in phone is charging.

 

[kcowan]

They text to my landline they are coming. My landline doesnt get texts.

Our landline carrier intercepts the text and phones us to dictate their translation. It is one of those good news/bad news features.

People who feel a need to Skype in a public place, without headphones. I am sitting in a delta sky club, and have had to move three times due to these conversations. It's a crowded lounge, but somehow it is their own personal bubble. I know you want to say goodnight to your son, but I don't need to hear both sides of it. Or the lady watching a movie on her iPad - again with no headphones.

Clearly I am frustrated with my long airport delay.

It must be ignorance because those people would all have earphones for their flight. Maybe Delta needs to hand them out earlier?

I didn't realize the smoke had reached Vancouver. Lake Country (Okanagan Centre fire) is 75% contained, 50 hectares.

The fires in Ashcroft and 100 Mile are huge and much destruction has occurred, but Fort McMurray 2016 was on an even larger scale (90,000 evacuations). They are helping, because they know what it's like.

The frustrating thing with the evacuation is that their return date is unknown. Lots of help from as far as Australia, including 2 water bombers.

The small, awkward hole where you pour the Rinse Aid in on the dishwasher door. It inevitably flows out and over the door, wasting a lot.
I have a Bosch so maybe it is just German engineering at its worst.

We replaced our Bosch clothes washer with a Samsung. Works a lot better.

The dishwasher remains a problem. So we use those all-in-one packets.

 

[Blue Collar Guy]

Our landline carrier intercepts the text and phones us to dictate their translation. It is one of those good news/bad news features.

One of our cars translates text message from phone, to the in car direction voice contraption. So one day before I went to a wedding , I knew someone else would be driving, we set up a text, message to say "Hey you putz, be careful with this car." After the wedding, I sent it, The voice had that computer alien accent, It was hysterical.

 

[Dash man]

The small, awkward hole where you pour the Rinse Aid in on the dishwasher door. It inevitably flows out and over the door, wasting a lot.
I have a Bosch so maybe it is just German engineering at its worst.

Our solution was a simple one. We stopped using a rinse aid.

 

[cooch96]

The small, awkward hole where you pour the Rinse Aid in on the dishwasher door. It inevitably flows out and over the door, wasting a lot.
I have a Bosch so maybe it is just German engineering at its worst.

My D/W is Korean and it's also difficult. I'm careful and slow and rarely waste more than a tsp. Maybe that is a lot.

 

[MRG]

Pet peeve is restaurants with too much business during tourist season.

We eat there once a week for most of the last year. Occasionally there's an issue and it's always resolved. I noticed in the spring the menu changed, some less expensive items replaced by overly large, much higher prices entrees.

I received a burger there yesterday that was way undercooked, perhaps it was cooked while partially frozen. I've never seen so much liquid on a plate, bottom bun was saturated and there was several ounces of liquid pooled on the plate.

Not nice fat or anything like you'd think a properly cooked burger. More like water with a little meat juice in it. When the waitress finally asked how it was I explained what was wrong, normally the manager comes out and either gets another entree or comps what your unhappy with. Nah, nothing.

Girl brings me the check for full price and a place for a tip! I gave her a tip about customer service. Told her that her six dollars tip was used to pay for half of the $12.00 inedible buger.

I gave a honest review on Yelp, the manager normally responds. While there I noticed several others who were saying the same things I was.

 

[gamboolman]

Ha these are great - have not read the entire list yet - so this may have been listed already...

We live overseas working the oil patch and are thus regularly on long international flights, with multiple legs to the journeys. And we fly domestic in country in multiple West African countries - arguably the most dangerous thing I have ever done in over 42 years of working the oilfields....but I digress.....

I see this behavior with passengers on the domestic and the international flights - and it never fails to get my goat....

When we land - as we are standing up to get out of the aisles and deplane - instead of allowing the folks in front of you to get out of their seat and get there luggage from the overhead and proceed off the plane in a orderly and efficient manner ..... The passengers will lots of times not let folks who are next in order get out into the aisle and will push and shove and cause human gridlock. This includes coming backwards in the aisle to get there bag. Totally cocks it up for everyone. It just is so stupid.

Handover heart this is true - I have seen passengers climbing over seats dragging luggage instead of going down the aisles.....

Please Lord, give me strength and grace to make it 2 more years until retirement. I hope and pray to never use or need my passport again.....

 

[Jerry1]

The small, awkward hole where you pour the Rinse Aid in on the dishwasher door. It inevitably flows out and over the door, wasting a lot.
I have a Bosch so maybe it is just German engineering at its worst.

I have the same thing. I've ended up using a small funnel and I've come to learn about how much to pour. Still, a pain for sure.