What is your pet peeve of the day? -- 2021

[Koolau]

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Originally Posted by REWahoo My newest pet peeve is being wished a "Happy Memorial Day". I don't view a day set aside to honor those who gave their lives in service to our country as a "happy" day, which implies something to be celebrated. Whether you agree or not, get off my lawn...

I agree, and I don't think 90% of people over 40 even know what memorial day is about, roughly when it was instituted, and how it was originally designed to be celebrated.

Get off my lawn, too.

[Chuckanut]

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Originally Posted by Koolau I agree, and I don't think 90% of people over 40 even know what memorial day is about, roughly when it was instituted, and how it was originally designed to be celebrated. Get off my lawn, too.

The same reason as Christmas and Easter. To sell people stuff. Right?

[Koolau]

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Originally Posted by Chuckanut The same reason as Christmas and Easter. To sell people stuff. Right?

Sadly, yes.

I wish they still taught such things as national holidays in school.

[JoeWras]

I wish people a "Meaningful Memorial Day". I hope that's OK. It is what it means to me. Anyone remember it being called "Decoration Day?" That's what I grew up with.

I have an expired pet peeve regarding Memorial Day: ignoring it. When I moved to NC, I was astounded to find how many people ignored the holiday. Some school districts still had school on Memorial Day!

I discovered that this is due to the roots of the holiday being a tribute to fallen soldiers during the Civil War. Some states emphasized a different day that people called Confederate Memorial Day. I think in NC that was May 10.

Anyway, this pet peeve has thankfully expired!

It wasn't long after I arrived in NC in the 1980s, that this pretty much ended, and the National Holiday date was observed.

Basically, what I witnessed was the end of a backlash of the civil rights era where some people just wanted to be a pain.

[braumeister]

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Originally Posted by JoeWras I discovered that this is due to the roots of the holiday being a tribute to fallen soldiers during the Civil War.

Some background:
Memorial Day is an American holiday, observed on the last Monday of May, honoring the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. military.

And an interesting sidelight:
One of the Earliest Memorial Day Ceremonies Was Held by Freed African Americans

We should all take a moment today to reflect on the brave individuals who gave everything they had for our benefit.

[Dash man]

My pet peeve for today are those businesses that send out emails to celebrate our veterans on Memorial Day. They just use it for another marketing ploy without understanding what the day means.

[Sojourner]

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Originally Posted by FindingForward That's beyond obnoxious, but I'm not surprised. Most people don't stop to think (or care) what Memorial Day represents: a solemn day to remember those who sacrificed so much. Many idiots in my area set those things off regularly, no matter what holiday - or no holiday at all. They're probably the same morons revving up their illegally tricked out cars and muffler-less motorcycles I have to hear at all hours of the day and night. I genuinely fail to understand the fascination with earsplitting noise in this society. Even when I was a little kid, I always hated it.

+1000

Fireworks on Memorial Day weekend is one of my biggest yearly pet peeves. It's utterly mind boggling how little people know—or care—about what certain holidays actually represent. Today's prevailing attitude seems to be "Hey, it's a long weekend and I don't have to work, so let's get drunk and shoot off some fireworks! Yee haw!"

[Sojourner]

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Originally Posted by Dash man My pet peeve for today are those businesses that send out emails to celebrate our veterans on Memorial Day. They just use it for another marketing ploy without understanding what the day means.

Totally agree, but it gets even worse than that. A few days ago I saw a huge billboard while driving along the highway (one of those electronic kinds) with a fancy, patriotic looking graphic that said something like "We honor our fallen heroes on this Memorial Day weekend" etc. etc. And the advertiser was... an ambulance-chasing "personal injury" law firm! Nauseating.

[Kings over Queens]

We lifted glasses yesterday to toast at a bbq, and someone said "Happy Memorial Day." to wit, I responded, "remember those who have fallen."

[Kings over Queens]

My pet peeve today, well, it's actually a long standing one...cold cuts from the deli. Nobody know how to slice them, or layer them properly, nor how to seal the bag. The butcher treats a $9.99 per pound steak better than the deli guy treats a $9.99 per pound block of roast beef.

Drives. Me. CRAZY! To the point where I tell my wife not to buy them anymore.

[GhostofTomJoad]

Pet peeve: retired, enjoy sleeping late. But I can't even sleep past dawn. Presumably the SAME stoopid zebra dove is doing his VERY loud noise-making thing, way too blasted early, from a perch somewhere VERY near my window. Is this going to keep up all [mod edit] summer? It's impossible to locate the beast.

Wiki: "The species is known for its pleasant, soft, staccato cooing calls." Pleasant? No way.

[JoeWras]

We call it "bird o'clock" at our house.

"When did you get up?"

"Bird o'clock"

[Act2]

I like that - Bird o’clock.
But I usually get up at Trash Truck O’clock

[W2R]

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Originally Posted by GhostofTomJoad Pet peeve: retired, enjoy sleeping late. But I can't even sleep past dawn. Presumably the SAME stoopid zebra dove is doing his VERY loud noise-making thing, way too blasted early, from a perch somewhere VERY near my window.

In New Orleans we have many VERY large black birds, that most people call ravens due to their size. They might be gigantic crows. They sound a little more like the crows on this video than like ravens, but could be either one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ5iippq3rA

They are maybe 2 feet from beak to tip of tail. Anyway, they are very vocal.

I really don't mind listening to them, though. I guess they just seem like part of the family since they are always around, on the roof, by the chimney, all around the yard, always vocalizing loudly either together or back and forth to one another at any hour of the day or night. I know, they should bother me but I like having them around.

[Gumby]

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Originally Posted by Act2 I like that - Bird o’clock. But I usually get up at Trash Truck O’clock

R. Lee Ermey has nothing on the feline drill sergeants who roust us out at 0600 every morning.

[folivier]

Try putting up a garden owl near your window. Especially one with reflective eyes and the head that spins in the wind. Might work. It did for my garden.

[Venturer]

My pet peeve today is birds building their nest in the hollow of my 5th wheel camper. We have to store our camper in a storage lot and the last two years I have had to pull out all this mess wnen we go to get the camper. So far I've not pulled any eggs out with the nest but it is gross just cleaning it out.

[Irishgirlyc58]

My pet peeve of the moment is the media reporting about a study that says seeing and hearing birds helps with your mental well being.
Not if those blanking birds are chirping all day at your house and pooping all over. They are messy and destructive. I’m on round three of trying to evict them.
I don’t think evoking homicidal rage is good for my mental health. [emoji23]
Makes me wish I had learned to use a slingshot from my brother when I was a kid.

[pacergal]

We have a small bird bath in our yard, I love watching them in it.
I do not put out any bird feed, though.
If they get too noisy in the early am, I close the windows and turn on a fan. It helps.

[JoeWras]

I put up a strip of "bird spikes" on a ledge under my deck.

The Carolina Wrens said "Thanks, Joe! This will make the nest secure!" and built the darn nest right in the middle of the spikes.

Sometimes you just have to laugh and roll with it.