Pet Peeves....

[Joe the Destroyer]

I hate when I'm watching a porno film, it's just starting to get reeeeeal interesting, and I suddenly become aware that one or more cats are STARING AT ME!

Somtimes, while my fiancee and I are getting intimate her cat will jump on the bed and begin nuzzling me.  I usually yell, "Dammit Blackie!  No three ways!" and kick him off.

And yes, it is a pet peeve, as well as:

When people walk slowly in front of me. 

When people spell "tomorrow" as "tomarrow."

Kinda like this:



When people smack their lips while eating.  God, I have a friend/former roommate who does this and it drives me nuts.  He doesn't just smack his lips, he does so in the worst, most offensive manner possible.  Not to mention his slurping habits!  Ugh, the guy could slurp french bread. 

[Doggett]

Dsktop icons that don't open, no matter how many times you click on 'em.

I'm lookin' at you BBC i Player !

[Doggett]

When a classic song gets covered badly or way over used to the point that you can't enjoy it anymore. 

[MilkManPictures]

When you are holding a casting session and the actress looks nothing like the head shot she sent...

[LilCerberus]

I hate it when I have a favorite pen, & then one of those little inevitabilities indicative of pens occurs.

[WingedSerpent]

I've got a some new ones. 
1.Bands that make it difficult or more expensive to get their music.  When I got an ipod, I made a list of the artists I wanted to get immediately.  Two of those bands arn't on itunes.  I won't say who, but they are major, well known bands.   If I want the songs, I have to buy the whole album (provided of course I didn't already own it) and then transfer the songs to my ipod.

Happened again.  This next song I want isn't by a well-know band.  But their songs are on itunes-but not itunes USA so I can't buy it.  Couldn't find it on Amazon, or Rhapsody, or anything.

Now don't get me wrong.  I'll pay for music I like. But more often then not, I've bought albums (CD's whatever) and found that the artist has one or two songs I really like, and the rest are mediocore (which is another pet peeve itself).  I want to buy the songs I like.

2. This ones about people on youtube.  Fans of the Angry Video Game Nerd calling everybody who does reviews of video games an AVGN rip-off.  And they get mean about it!    He wasn't the first to review games on-line and many of the other reviewers have styles completely different from him, but they all get called rip-offs.

[ChuckSplatt]

NO LOUD TALKING DURING THE MOVIE!!!  DO YOU WANT TO WEAR MY LARGE DRINK? I'LL GET A FREE REFILL ANYWAY.

[Jack]

I'll be using my computer just like usual, then the hard drive will start making all it's little noises and it'll slow way down.  I'm sure it's running some maintenance program or downloading some update, or maybe it's a virus methodically consuming my hard drive.  Anyhow, it sure as hell would be nice if there was some simple and quick method of finding out why my computer suddenly started running at 10% normal speed.  Just out of curiosity if nothing else.  But no.

[Jack]

That little Google search box in the top corner of my browser - click on it, and it highlights whatever you typed in there last - the ENTIRE search term.  Then you have to click on it again if you only want to modify what you typed in last.  Annoying.

[Jack]

What is it with people on Youtube having opening credits for a freakin' 2 minute video?  "Produced and directed by", complete with theme music.  You pointed a camera at yourself and talked - that's not directing.  Your mom bought you a video camera - that's not producing.  And do these people love to listen to themselves talk, or what?  Just prattle prattle prattle.  I watched 4 minutes of a 7 minute video, purporting to "review" a video game console.  I found out it collects dust.  That's it.  The other 3 minutes 50 seconds were just prattle.  And yes, it had extensive opening credits with theme music and a even a logo.

[Rev. Powell]

I'll be using my computer just like usual, then the hard drive will start making all it's little noises and it'll slow way down.  I'm sure it's running some maintenance program or downloading some update, or maybe it's a virus methodically consuming my hard drive.  Anyhow, it sure as hell would be nice if there was some simple and quick method of finding out why my computer suddenly started running at 10% normal speed.  Just out of curiosity if nothing else.  But no.

Not necessarily quick and simple, but do you know that on Windows systems pressing CTRL-ALT-DELETE brings up the task manager, which shows you how much RAM each program is using?  (Vista, of course, makes this more difficult by bringing up a menu instead of going straight to the task manager).  Of course, you probably won't recognize the program names, so you'll have to Google them. 

[Rev. Powell]

Windows Vista assumes that no one could ever possibly want a quick and easy way to find out what programs are currently running, so it changes the time honored CTRL-ALT-DELETE trick to bring up a menu asking if you want to change your password, among other stupid choices.

Come to think of it, we could probably devote an entire thread to Windows/Microsoft pet peeves.

[ghouck]

I'll be using my computer just like usual, then the hard drive will start making all it's little noises and it'll slow way down.  I'm sure it's running some maintenance program or downloading some update, or maybe it's a virus methodically consuming my hard drive.  Anyhow, it sure as hell would be nice if there was some simple and quick method of finding out why my computer suddenly started running at 10% normal speed.  Just out of curiosity if nothing else.  But no.

On XP this is often 'Drive Indexing', which is the OS taking inventory of all your files to speed up both local and remote file browsing and searching. For some reason XP has the DUMBEST way of determining when to run it, seems like it's opposite of how it should be.
If you click the start button, click 'run', and enter "services.msc" without the quotes in the run line, you'll get a list of services that may or may not be started when you start the computer. 'indexing service' is the one responsible for this. There are a bunch of services that can be turned off if you don't use them, and I've found several pages on what does what so you can tell which shut off and which to leave.

Control panel -> system -> advanced -> performance - settings is one of the best ways to speed a system up. All those options put a decent load on the system.

[Jack]

Not necessarily quick and simple, but do you know that on Windows systems pressing CTRL-ALT-DELETE brings up the task manager, which shows you how much RAM each program is using?  

Oh yeah, I used to do that on my Windows 98 computer.  Sure was nice.  Now I've got Vista.  I can (eventually) get some list of programs that are currently running, but I can't make heads or tales out of it.  The problem is there's just SOOOOO much stuff that wants to update - check for Windows updates, anti-virus definitions, then Windows Defender has all sorts of stuff it wants to update, then it wants to defragment the hard drive, do a virus scan, check for the correct time, etc.  I'll set some task to start at midnight, the next one at 2 AM, but the one from midnight is still running, so the 2 AM one decides to wait until 6 AM to run, which is right when I'm trying to use the stupid thing.  Ugh.

I'll have to check into the stuff Ghouck is talking about.  I'm pretty careful with the startup items, making sure nothing is running that doesn't need to be.  I've also been to some sites that explain what all that stuff is.  But maybe there's something else I can do.  Thanks for the advice 

[Doggett]

Switzerland*

Why?
for the second world War.

Fascism Vs. Freedom and they couldn't pick a side !
C'mon fellas, get a grip !


*nicked it from someone else. Good point though.