Pet Peeves

Post by **Kvetch** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 4:27 pm

Thought so: we've got them here now (only discovered in the last few weeks. people keep posting them to my dad, and he makes me take photos. believe me, I hate them more than you do.)

ChoChiyo · Post by **ChoChiyo** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 4:41 pm

Which of the following do you find the most hateful about them?

they stink
they bite
they will crawl into your pop can or your can of peanuts, and if you bite into one. ... OH GAWD! Their taste is VILE.
their nasty orange colored waste products stain the curtains and walls.
if you squish them on the wall, their nasty orange colored bodily fluids stain the wall.
if you squish lots of them between your finger and thumb, even if you are shielded from their actual body fluids by a tissue, their acidic body fluids create a burn that feels like a sunburn that lingers for days
your window sills, light fixtures, and other accessible locations are always filled with their nasty little carcasses after they croak.
somehow, the vortex of the toilet is often unable to suck them into oblivion, and their squashed or drowned bodies float there disgustingly for days.

Post by **Kvetch** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 4:55 pm

actually, it is the difficulty of making their colours come through on the pictures (see here - oops - have just noticed it says 'new page 1') The larvae are the hardest to get: compare

(expert)

and me:

and that's after half an hour with an editing program

oh, must credit: top photo is Â© Antoon Loomans, Plant Protection Service Wageningen, The Netherlands

MidasKnight · Post by **MidasKnight** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 5:17 pm

I'm thinking that I would notice the beetles before I got into the tub.

I'm also thinking I'd notice if I picked one up out of a peanut can before I put it in my mouth and if not then certainly I'd notice before I bit down on one.

... and they say I'm gross ...

Hunter B · Post by **Hunter B** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 5:57 pm

CHO: Hmmm, we call those lady bugs in California. This is our asian beetle:

ChoChiyo · Post by **ChoChiyo** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 6:42 pm

MidasKnight wrote:I'm thinking that I would notice the beetles before I got into the tub.

They were not in there when I got in.

I'm also thinking I'd notice if I picked one up out of a peanut can before I put it in my mouth and if not then certainly I'd notice before I bit down on one.

You assume I eat peanuts with the lights on. And that I examine each one before I put it in my mouth. (I don't). Don't you ever watch tv with the lights out while eating handfuls of popcorn or peanuts or other snacky item? Do you examine each morsel?

... and they say I'm gross ...

Well, yeah, and twisted and disgusting and sordid and silly and a little bit moldy--but is this really the place to discuss all of that?????

(I love to tease you.)

mrdude · Post by **mrdude** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 9:27 pm

Hunter Berwick wrote:CHO: Hmmm, we call those lady bugs in California.

Actually the bettles she's talking about are a specific species of lady bug, that come from asia. They're a bit different than your common ladybug, if you read on the site they are a serious nucence. They it more than our native ladybugs, thus they starve them to death. Also they will eat other insects besides aphids when their food source runs out and many of these insects are usful to use for polonation purposes and the like. Also because they don't belong in the U.S. or britan they have no natural preditors there and are able to spread at an extreamly pace. They apperaed in america and britan accidently most like being blown across the ocean.

Hunter B · Post by **Hunter B** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 10:01 pm

Sorry, my mind jumping ahead of reason again.

MidasKnight · Post by **MidasKnight** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 10:50 am

All women love to tease me.

ChoChiyo · Post by **ChoChiyo** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 12:57 pm

MidasKnight wrote:All women love to tease me.

It's good to see you are resigned to your fate.

MidasKnight · Post by **MidasKnight** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 6:28 pm

Then again, just seeing a women is a tease to me.

Hunter B · Post by **Hunter B** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 6:33 pm

*snicker* Depends on the woman, doesn't it? *snicker*

violetblue · Post by **violetblue** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 1:56 pm

I have a pet peeve, it just happened me today over lunch.

Guys, when you meet or talk to a woman you don't know, don't call her "honey," "sweetheart," or "gal." Or any combination thereof, including but not limited to any others women on this board could come up with.

I am a bit old-fashioned about some things, and while it may seem harmless to some, it denotes a degree of familiarity I am not comfortable with. And no, I didn't just crawl out of 19th century Victorian England, but I'm a lady, damnit.

felonius · Post by **felonius** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 2:33 pm

I'm not on the subway as much as I used to be - but I despised it when I'd be on the train during a busy time, it would pull into my station, the doors would open, but the $#%$^& people on the platform would start boarding without letting anyone get off first, even though waiting for just a second would be in their own best interest.

The most annoying part is that they don't even realize they're doing something wrong and slowing everyone else down.

A small thing, though, I suppose. I have a very positive view of humanity most of the time. Honest.

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:31 am

violetblue wrote:I have a pet peeve, it just happened me today over lunch.

Guys, when you meet or talk to a woman you don't know, don't call her "honey," "sweetheart," or "gal." Or any combination thereof, including but not limited to any others women on this board could come up with.

I am a bit old-fashioned about some things, and while it may seem harmless to some, it denotes a degree of familiarity I am not comfortable with. And no, I didn't just crawl out of 19th century Victorian England, but I'm a lady, damnit.

Now that we know VB's true nature, I would not dare call her "sweetheart". I wonder what happened to the last unfortunate guy who ventured to call her that. She said it was over lunch... A lady, she says... hmmm... well, I can see her delicately, Victorian-like, removing the last gram of the brain from the skull of the still-living body without even wrinkling her superb attire. Maybe seasoning it with honey?

Post by **PolarisDiB** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 3:35 pm

Ahhh, pet peeves... off the top of my head:

1) "Do you work here?"

Sometimes this question is okay, like when I'm walking around and stuff.

But when I just helped three people right in front of you, have stocked a bunch of stuff, and am wearing the full work attire, I mean c'mon!

2) "Can you help me?" "I'm on break." "Oh.... can you help me anyway?"

No.

But to keep this from just being retail-related ranting:

3) Go in the RIGHT-SIDE door! Right-side! Right! I know it's an arbitrary designation, but foot traffic would be so much easier if people kept to the RIGHT like they're supposed to!
3a) And what architect managed to get this design through with right-hand doors that only lead outward and left-hand doors that only lead inward?

4) "You MUST read this book/watch this movie/listen to this CD."
If I don't, I will die. It's a proven fact.
4a) "EVERYONE must see/read/listen to [enter currently huge social document or New Age self-help book that helps make people feel like they're changing the world by consuming 'alternative' media rather than normal stuff here]" E.g.: An Inconvenient Truth (I already know the arguments, stop asking me to waste plastic!); The Secret (I bet I already know it)
4b) *GASP* "OMGWTFBBQ! YOU HAVEN'T SEEN/READ/LISTENED TO [enter some publication of some sort that hasn't anything to do with anything here]. How can you call yourself a cinephile/bibliophile/audiophile?"

The thing is, I know people get passionate with their interests, and I often say the same things as these above, but I get way too much of it from way too many people and it makes me feel more like I'm supposed to be obligated to my interests rather than enjoying them. And I can't really believe that my life is going to be incomplete if I wait a few days to see "300" or put off reading the new Chuck Pahluniuk book or whatever.

4c) "What? You DON'T like [enter current way overly hyped modern 'classic' or unfortunately aged and no longer relevant historic classic here]?"

Unfortunately, sometimes people actually have tastes different from strangely accepted norms.

5) "You think too much"

No, I think precisely as much as I like to.

6) Honking horns.

Very few times have I been in a situation where honking a horn was necessary, and most of the time it involves a misunderstanding like someone whose car died or something. The rest of the times I've noticed people honking horns, I've always noticed that their time would better be spent braking or steering. Seriously, if you have time to honk you have time to avoid the accident, so focus on that first.

7) Rapper's names and rap group titles. "Do you have the new Kiizzin' Da Lad Ee's CD?" ".... Uhhhh.... how do you spell it?" "Sheeet, I don't know."
7a) "I don't speak The King's English" Sounds great. You do realize English was the language of the lower classes, right?

Uh, well, I can go on forever, so I'll leave it at that for now. I haven't even gotten into movie theatres and coffee bars!

--PolarisDiB

tollbaby · Post by **tollbaby** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 4:06 pm

dude, I didn't realize you frequented Customerssuck

What's your handle over there?

blueworld · Post by **blueworld** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 5:51 pm

One of my wierd pet peeves is that I have an irrational obsession with the homophone discrete/discreet.

Discrete
1: constituting a separate entity : individually distinct <several>
2 a: consisting of distinct or unconnected elements : noncontinuous b: taking on or having a finite or countably infinite number of values <discrete> <a>

Discreet
1: having or showing discernment or good judgment in conduct and especially in speech : prudent; especially : capable of preserving prudent silence
2: unpretentious, modest <the>
3: unobtrusive, unnoticeable <followed>

Slightly related meanings, but not the same at all!!!

I've noticed the wrong word used in published books, newspaper articles, and advertisements -- and I usually have to stop reading and cool off for a while.

physik · Post by **physik** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 8:56 am

When people use the statement

"I COULD CARE LESS."

What you really should be saying is...

"I COULDN'T CARE LESS!"

Ugh. People butcher the English language.

tollbaby · Post by **tollbaby** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 9:04 am

physik wrote:When people use the statement

"I COULD CARE LESS."

What you really should be saying is...

"I COULDN'T CARE LESS!"

Ugh. People butcher the English language.

Actually, it depends on your intent

I sometimes say "I *could* care less....." with emphasis on the COULD, clearly intending the "... but I don't"

Just an additional shot of sarcasm for my preferred customers

physik · Post by **physik** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 10:05 am

tollbaby wrote: Actually, it depends on your intent I sometimes say "I *could* care less....." with emphasis on the COULD, clearly intending the "... but I don't" Just an additional shot of sarcasm for my preferred customers

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 4:36 pm

blueworld wrote:One of my wierd pet peeves is that I have an irrational obsession with the homophone discrete/discreet.

Discrete
1: constituting a separate entity : individually distinct <several>
2 a: consisting of distinct or unconnected elements : noncontinuous b: taking on or having a finite or countably infinite number of values <discrete> <a>

Discreet
1: having or showing discernment or good judgment in conduct and especially in speech : prudent; especially : capable of preserving prudent silence
2: unpretentious, modest <the>
3: unobtrusive, unnoticeable <followed>

Slightly related meanings, but not the same at all!!! I've noticed the wrong word used in published books, newspaper articles, and advertisements -- and I usually have to stop reading and cool off for a while.

I fully agree with you, in english.
In french, however, both meanings are rendered by the same word: "discret", feminine "discrÃ¨te".
My daughter keeps joking about my working on "Ã©quations trÃ¨s discrÃ¨tes" (actually: discrete, as in: not continuous; but jokingly: discreet, as in: nobody knows about them, except a small circle of about 100 individuals throughout the whole world, among them 50 in Japan)

mccormack44 · Post by **mccormack44** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 10:17 pm

Most pet peeves are outwardly directed, but right now I'm peeved at myself AND it is one of my all-time pet peeves: those times when the person who got in your way was yourself!

I'm all packed (including the van) except for those very last minute items like this computer, and was preparing to leave very early tomorrow morning. WRONG. When I started to call the drugstore this morning to get my test strips and nasal spray so that diabetes and allergies wouldn't attack unawares, I found that I had let both prescriptions expire. This can be handled by fax between the drugstore and the clinic, but the prescription renewals didn't arrive today. The drugstore will go ahead with the refills early tomorrow, even if the clinic's fax is delayed, but their early is MUCH later than the early I had planned for.

The trip will still be OK, but I'm so mad at me, I can hardly see straight!

Sue

tollbaby · Post by **tollbaby** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 7:25 am

Sue, don't beat yourself up over that. The unexpected is what makes life so much fun

The plus side is that you'll have your medication BEFORE the retreat, so you won't have to worry about allergies or diabetes. Karma being a b*tch would have been the pharmacy's refusing to honor your prescriptions and their fax machine breaking down.

Delayed, but you still have a lot to look forward to (I'll admit, I'm insanely envious - I've always wanted to go on a stitching retreat!)

My aunt's always said "Don't sweat the small stuff, and baby, it's all small stuff!"

She most definitely lived by that philosophy during the last few months of her husband's life. EVERYTHING other than spending time with him became secondary, and my parents actually got pretty pissed off at her for ditching them a few times, but you know what? When you know you only have a few months left with the love of your life, you don't need negativity and wasted opportunities pulling you down

I wanna be her when I grow up. IF I grow up.

Child of Light · Post by **Child of Light** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 10:54 am

House cleaners that move your stuff to clean, and then don't move it back, SO YOU CAN'T FIND ANYTHING! Seriously, how hard is it to put something back where it was originally after cleaning under something.