The Official Pet Peeve Thread

[BadgerSpoon]

I love that word…It’s really an all-occasion insult.

Amen…somedays, I just don’t feel like being nice, so as my mother told me, I just don’t say anything at all.

bwahaha! If that was true, you’d be in convent somewhere, having taken a vow of silence.

[BadgerSpoon]

Hmm… addictive, leads to warped sense of reality, and precipitates an intergalactic nucular warfare? Yeah, that’s Poofy alright.

He who controls me controls the universe!

I also make the eyes turn blue when consumed.

[BadgerSpoon]

The issue is that the mass production cost of a CD/DVD turned out to be so ridiculously cheap. It makes no economic sense to protect it, when you can make another one for less than a penny.

Protecting the disc itself isn’t quite as important as protecting what’s on it…

[deathbytray]

Hehe. Assface.

[BadgerSpoon]

You dreamed it…just like me and the Magic Garlic Peeler…

I told you, it really does exist.

E-Z-Rol Garlic Peeler

It’s just stupid to pay money for it.

[BadgerSpoon]

Addictive: No

Sure. You can quit whenever you like. Keep telling yourself that. :rolleyes:

Warped Sense of Reality: Yes. (His, not mine)

Says you!

Likely to Precipitate intergalactic nucular warfare: Only if he can do it from his desk chair.

From the couch or bed would also be acceptable.

Oh, and I hereby move we start calling him Poofy Spice.

I hereby move that you keep your bright ideas to yourself.

[BadgerSpoon]

Hehe. Assface.

That poor little thing.

[Pike]

That poor little thing.

What are you talking about? It’s obviously the next Hitchcock.

[frakkintalos]

I took this picture with my phone (pardon the blur) at a department store (name withheld to protect the stupid). There were dozens of these signs, which appeared to be professionally manufactured, if not proofread.

I’ve got a problem with the peep-hole.

[BadgerSpoon]

What are you talking about? It’s obviously the next Hitchcock.

Maybe it’s a reincarnation of the last one.

[BadgerSpoon]

I’ve got a problem with the peep-hole.

Feeling paranoid?

[Casilda]

(I don’t know what offends me more, that this GOP group is so blatantly racist, or that they suck so badly at being racists.)

Also, this can’t be the work of one racist person. Someone surely came up with the idea, they must’ve talked about it, and some did the photoshopping. Then they sent it to be printed somewhere, and the printers must’ve seen it. The fact is, this was a group effort. And no one, during this process, came out said, “hold on, fellow Republicans, this is really fucked up, we shouldn’t be doing this.”

This leads to me to believe that this group that printed this, they are all kinda racists. Maybe not all out-and-out klansmen, but there must be a predominant culture of quietly snickering prejudice in that group. No way this could happen in a group of mostly decent people with one super racist fucktard. No, this was a group effort.

And if you want to be really depressed about racism against Obama in the race… one of my favorite blogs has a series calling things out… as it should be, but sometimes it’s too depressing for words.

Also, what about the woman (McCain supporter) who made up the story that a black man had robbed her at an ATM and ‘branded’ her with a black B on her face? How screwed up is that??? (I just heard on NPR about 10 minutes ago that she admits she made it all up… uf)

Though the feelings these incidents evoke are much stronger than just a pet peeve…

[frakkintalos]

Feeling paranoid?

No. Not really. It’s just that peep-holes distort your view. I want to be represented truthfully.

[Apollymy]

Hehe. Assface.

Awww! Baby!

Addictive: No

Warped Sense of Reality: Yes. (His, not mine)

Likely to Precipitate intergalactic nucular warfare: Only if he can do it from his desk chair.

Oh, and I hereby move we start calling him Poofy Spice.

I second it!

[Cymbeline]

Ooh, there’s another big one: the “Insert” key. It converts your computer to “overtype” mode, which I’ve never needed and rarely wanted. And unlike NumLock and Caps Lock, there’s no indicator light to warn you. And I’ve never been able to find a reliable way to disable it without completely reprogramming the keyboard or physically removing the key itself.

At the risk of zipping back to what was said an hour ago, I TOTALLY second this. Insert has to be the stupidest key imagined. How exactly are you supposed to EVER need this? I like to call it the “Oh CRAP, I screwed up trying to delete something and now I’m fraked because I just typed over my ENTIRE PARAGRAPH!!! Ahhhhhhhh!!!” key.

Does anyone actually use this key? Do you go over to the place where you want to correct something and press “insert” then type the correction carefully watching the screen till you get to the end of what you wanted to delete and replace, realize what you wanted to replace is not exactly as long as what you wanted to delete, press “insert” again, finished your corrections and move on??? WTF??? The “INSERT” key STOPS you from inserting.

I HATE this key, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it. It should be moved into a corner of the keyboard where you can’t accidently hit it. [OK, breath in, breath out, breath in, breath out … I feel better now]

[deathbytray]

You! You there with 57,000 Obama bumper stickers on your car! You, who just cut me off at 950 miles per hour without signalling!

You are not helping your cause.

Many undecided voters are voting McCain just because they think you’re a douche. When McCain’s heart stops ticking in the second week of his presidency, and we end up with President Sarah Palin, the blood will be on your hands. When President Palin decides to lead American souls to early rapture by turning our own nucular arsenal on our own populace, I will think of you, assface.

[Pike]

Hrm. It seems that loud cellphone guy is annoying to a lot of people.

[Solai]

When a Cylon gets pregnant, does that make her a toaster oven?

T-shirt. Right now. Brilliant.

[Leah]

I’ve got a problem with the peep-hole.

Feeling paranoid?

I would if it was the staff bathroom.

[Armando]

On the last point: I have been able to do everything with my combo VCR/DVD player with relative ease,…except change the display time - I am assuming that this option is locked because it is connected with the space-time continuum itself and to alter it would be altering the fabric of existence…)

On the first point: You actually make my point exactly - I would not consider playing a CD in a car an unusual or careless activity - I would call that living…shouldn’t the products we invest in, especially those supposedly on the cutting edge of technology, afford us some livability and take into account the real rigors of daily existence (and our stupidity as a species)? They make laptops that you can drop on the floor and spill coffee all over, but you can only handle a CD by its edges???

I bet that the disk-like-thing that Zephran Cochran put into his player on the first warp flight in First Contact had some scratchproofness…I’m just saying…

Yeah, I guess. I was never much into playing CD’s in my car. The discmen were always so bulky and I’m pretty anal about keeping my CDs in their jewel cases. So I always just listened to tapes or, since 2003 or so, an iPod.

CD’s are quickly becoming obsolete anyway (although the sound quality is actually better on CD than MP3. Or so I’m told. I can’t really tell the difference).