What is your pet peeve of the day?

[folivier]

I’m CDO, which is OCD, but in alphabetical order, as it should be...

Haha! Reminds me of Jerry Seinfeld having all of his cereal boxes alphabetized and Kramer messing up his organization.

 

[Nemo2]

I’m CDO, which is OCD, but in alphabetical order, as it should be...

+01....as it should be!

 

[Rianne]

Haha! Reminds me of Jerry Seinfeld having all of his cereal boxes alphabetized and Kramer messing up his organization.

This is not funny in our house. My messes are completely organized for a reason.

 

[Boho]

23andme says "You have 6 Relatives in Common™"

It's trademarked! Now I want to go around telling everyone "you have x relatives in common" just to spite their dumb trademark.

 

[Koolau]

I'm going through my latest book, and just found that in the same scene, I have someone wearing a tweed suit and then a three-piece brown suit. Twenty beta readers, and no one caught that.

Those errors are hard to avoid.

Heh, heh, I gave a presentation at my professional association's annual meeting. I had practiced the talk (with slides) in front of boss, boss's boss, etc. plus every PhD in every department at our site. The topic was THE hottest topic within the profession that year. At the meeting, it was SRO in the largest room the convention center had (except the main auditorium.)

I began my presentation where you could hear a pin drop among hundreds of people. About slide 32 (just a guess, heh, heh) and I realized the slide was totally wrong! No one had caught it back home. I just kept going and no one in the room questioned it in the double-long Q&A session afterward. These things do happen, so YMMV.

 

[Boho]

I had a similar thing with a part time volunteer job where three PHDs were collaborating on something and delegated the writing to a PHD who couldn't write. They'd been working on a large manual for months before I started and months with me and the research assistant was still trusting the bad writer (who I was working under) to write.

They need to lock PHD candidates in a room with no cell phone and watch them as they take a writing test. Give them 10 pages and tell them to write a one page summary and a three page summary. I don't even care what their PHD is in, if you have a PHD you should be able to write at least fairly well without help.

 

[Rianne]

When I see a block long line at a drive up window (usually Starbuck's) I'll park, go inside, get served and be back at my car within minutes. When I come out there are more cars in line, sitting there on cell phones, just waiting with their gas running. There are often more empty parking spaces than cars in line.

 

[Chuckanut]

I don't even care what their PHD is in, if you have a PHD you should be able to write at least fairly well without help.

Agreed.

Nobody can write better than a PHD.

 

[samclem]

Today's peeve: The "Smart Reply" function on my text messaging app.

This became active when I got a new phone and the default app for messaging was different. When a text is received, Google supplies some short replies I might want to send rather than write one from scratch. I've never used it, but I never bothered to turn it off. I have been the recipient of many of these messages from others. Often curt and vaguely or obviously inappropriate, I prefer to recognize the humanity of the other person by taking the 10 extra seconds to write my own words.

Today I got a group text from a friend with news of the death of a family member. It was a heartfelt and sad note.

Apparently, Google thought I might want to reply "That's great!," and as my klutzy thumb fumbled with the phone it hit that icon and that's the text I inadvertently sent to the group. One click, no "Send this?" confirmation, etc.

Lesson learned: I disabled the "Smart (?) Reply" "feature." It's gone now and I freed up some real estate on my screen.

 

[RunningBum]

Today's peeve: The "Smart Reply" function on my text messaging app.

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Lesson learned: I disabled the "Smart (?) Reply" "feature." It's gone now and I freed up some real estate on my screen.

A good peeve and a good fix! Thanks, I just turned it off on my phone.

 

[rk911]

Today's peeve: The "Smart Reply" function on my text messaging app.

This became active when I got a new phone and the default app for messaging was different. When a text is received, Google supplies some short replies I might want to send rather than write one from scratch. I've never used it, but I never bothered to turn it off. I have been the recipient of many of these messages from others. Often curt and vaguely or obviously inappropriate, I prefer to recognize the humanity of the other person by taking the 10 extra seconds to write my own words.

Today I got a group text from a friend with news of the death of a family member. It was a heartfelt and sad note.

Apparently, Google thought I might want to reply "That's great!," and as my klutzy thumb fumbled with the phone it hit that icon and that's the text I inadvertently sent to the group. One click, no "Send this?" confirmation, etc.

Lesson learned: I disabled the "Smart (?) Reply" "feature." It's gone now and I freed up some real estate on my screen.

sounds less useful than suto-correct and that's pretty useless.

 

[travelover]

sounds less useful than suto-correct and that's pretty useless.

You've proved your point.

 

[rk911]

lmao!

 

[Rianne]

Today's peeve: The "Smart Reply" function on my text messaging app.

Today I got a group text from a friend with news of the death of a family member. It was a heartfelt and sad note.

Lesson learned: I disabled the "Smart (?) Reply" "feature." It's gone now and I freed up some real estate on my screen.

Excellent post. I actually informed my family of my DM passing with a long text. Some members were offended, but there are 16 people in my immediate family and wanted to let them know immediately.
I get irritated by the "smart reply" feature. I always have to double check the stupid thing it puts in there.

 

[samclem]

I get irritated by the "smart reply" feature. I always have to double check the stupid thing it puts in there.

I just wonder about the quality of Google's artificial intelligence. If an incoming text has the words/phrases "sad to tell you" , "passed away" , "will be missed" in it, is it likely the recipient is going to want to reply "That's great!"


"Thanks for calling our customer support line. Please listen to all choices as our menu options have changed. Press '1' for a list of ways that technology has not improved our lives . . . ."

 

[misanman]

I just wonder about the quality of Google's artificial intelligence. If an incoming text has the words/phrases "sad to tell you" , "passed away" , "will be missed" in it, is it likely the recipient is going to want to reply "That's great!"

Maybe "us" versus the "machines" is closer than we think and the AI is actually thinking for itself!

 

[Andre1969]

I remember when I found the IMDB in I think 1996 it was like "Wow, somebody was reading my mind!" My personal submissions to the goofs or trivia sections usually concern: Anachronisms. A character supposedly in 1951 signing a song that wasn't recorded till 1959. Hey, one of my degrees is in History. And in military themed movies I'm all over which officers should and shouldn't have scrambled eggs on their hats. And the Air Force doesn't have corporals

One thing I have a bad habit of noticing these days, is continuity errors in time of day. For instance, watch an old episode of "CHiPs", and it's common to see Ponch and John riding around and in one scene it'll be foggy or cloudy, the next it will be bright and sunny, the next it will actually be drizzling, etc.

Or, a movie or tv show that's supposed to be taking place in the winter, up north somewhere like NYC or Vermont, but there's still too much green in the foliage.

 

[GalaxyBoy]

People who have no clue as to how to walk in parking lots. Today, an employee(!) at Kroger was pushing a single mini cart back to the storefront and was in the very middle of the aisle, shuffling along as if he had all day, oblivious to the line of cars behind him.

 

[CardsFan]

People who have no clue as to how to walk in parking lots. Today, an employee(!) at Kroger was pushing a single mini cart back to the storefront and was in the very middle of the aisle, shuffling along as if he had all day, oblivious to the line of cars behind him.

Or how to drive. I was in a supermarket lot today and in 30 seconds saw 3 cars zig-zagging through the lot as if the lanes and spots did not exist. Sorry, if I am driving in a lane, I am not expecting you to cruise across 4 parking spots to cut me off.

 

[travelover]

People who have no clue as to how to walk in parking lots. Today, an employee(!) at Kroger was pushing a single mini cart back to the storefront and was in the very middle of the aisle, shuffling along as if he had all day, oblivious to the line of cars behind him.

You don't have a horn?

 

[6miths]

Lately pages here haven't been loading properly.

 

[tmm99]

I was on a plane, starting to watch a movie with my ear buds and a flight attendant came passing out earbuds so I asked for a pair and she said something to the effect of “I see that you already have your own. Why do you need another one? It’s environmentally friendly to just use what you already have. “ I can’t exactly remember what I said in response (I wasn’t rude.) but after I said it, I grabbed the package of earbuds she was holding and opened it as quickly as possible so she couldn’t give it to anybody else, like what a kid with a package of candies might do. After our first flight was diverted to another city and we had to spend a night in a hotel with just four hours of sleep, I was already very annoyed and I could have said a lot of things back to her but my brain was too tired to. With this particular flight with the annoying attendant, we sat on tarmac for two hours waiting for an OK from the destination airport and while doing that, the pilot’s working hours exceeded the limit and the flight was cancelled. I at least got a free pair of earbuds from this experience and the sound is really good.

I almost forgot to mention - this was with Air Canada.

 

[tmm99]

This isn’t exactly a pet peeve either but I am just annoyed in general by people who are hired to serve other people acting like they are doing us a favor by working and treating us like crap(self-righteous smartasses talking in condescending tones)/bullying us like we’re little children who need to be put in our place. After two failed attempts to leave Denver due to weather conditions in Chicago and Toronto, United found seats for us on a flight that was about to take off. They called the gate and asked them to hold the flight as long as possible. but they basically told us to run as fast as we could. (Denver Intl airport is rather big and we had to get on a short train ride to get to our gate). When we were going through security, we said we needed to hurry as the plane was supposed to leave in 15 minutes. The other passengers were very understandable and gave us room to get through before them, but the security lady working there said to me “You should have given yourself enough time.” I told her it was not my fault that United tried to fit us with a tight timeline. Then she nods as if my answer was satisfactory for her and that she decided not to lecture me any further. I was annoyed enough to say something else but I was too much in a hurry.

 

[blueskyk]

Signed up for Global Entry which involves a background check. The website states the approval process can take 2 to 6 months and may require an in person interview.

“Status updates on your application will appear on this website, including your notice to schedule/confirm an interview. Check back regularly.”

Really? You can’t send me an email with status updates?

 

[Chuckanut]

I was on a plane, starting to watch a movie with my ear buds and a flight attendant came passing out earbuds so I asked for a pair and she said something to the effect of “I see that you already have your own. Why do you need another one? It’s environmentally friendly to just use what you already have. “

I think that is called 'virtue signaling' these days.

And, yes, the virtual signalers make a great pet peeve.