Pet Peeves....

ER · March 20, 2009, 02:41:22 PM

It peeves me when someone tries to lump me in with Irish-Americans, an ethnicity with which I have virtually nothing in common, just because I'm Irish/American.

Doggett · March 23, 2009, 09:57:42 AM

Selling games back to GAME and then wishing you hadn't.

schmendrik · March 27, 2009, 07:00:10 AM

Quote from: ER on March 20, 2009, 02:41:22 PM
It peeves me when someone tries to lump me in with Irish-Americans, an ethnicity with which I have virtually nothing in common, just because I'm Irish/American.

OK, I'm confused.

Is the distinction that you actually lived in Ireland?

An Irish fellow (I might be tempted to call him a friend except that I was renting from him and he skipped with my $500 security deposit after I moved out) once said to me about a local "Irish pub": "That place is about as Irish as you are."

schmendrik · March 27, 2009, 07:03:19 AM

Why do they feel the need to change the title when they bring foreign films to the US? Most recently: Entre Les Murs ("Between the Walls") was marketed as The Class. Why not just tell us the original title?

I won't even mention mistranslations and omissions in subtitles, so you're not always being told what characters are actually saying. Oops, I mentioned it.

Doggett · March 27, 2009, 08:23:55 AM

Zombies are way more aggressive at night !!!

Its really starting to annoy!!!

ghouck · March 27, 2009, 11:26:02 AM

Some people that leave reviews on allrecipes dot com are idiots. Ratings go from 1 to 5, and I see all kinds of them where the person gives a recipe a 3 and says something like "It was VERY bland, I didn't use ingredients x, y, z, a, b, c, d and e, because I didn't have them on hand" or "I traded THIS ingredient for THAT, and THIS for THAT, and THIS, THIS, and THIS: the recipe calls for fresh but I used canned, and it didn't come out very well". I even saw one where someone gave a recipe a 1 and said "I didn't try this recipe because it has SO much sugar, and I'm diabetic". I saw another where someone complained about a recipe and admitted they used TURKEY in place of SHRIMP and SCALLOPS. I wonder why that didn't work out very well.

ER · March 28, 2009, 03:40:52 PM

When someone leaves his @#$% gee draped ALL THE TIME across the washing machine after coming back from working out at the dojo. lol

Jack · March 28, 2009, 06:57:40 PM

The fact that Amazon allows people to leave comments on other people's reviews. There are exactly two types of comments:

1) Oh, I totally agree with everything you say, great review! I look forward to reading your next one :) :) :)

2) Dude, yr revew suxs!!!Q!!!!!!!!

ChuckSplatt · March 28, 2009, 07:04:41 PM

NO talking DURING the movie!

It's sad I actually have to tell people that during movies. LOUD talking during movies is a major peeve of mine and perhaps most people.

I became so tired of people talking during movies that now my wife and I just rent movies. We will still watch movies in the theater including Iron Man and The Dark Knight, because we know the sound will be BOOMING enough to drown the talking idiots.

It's killing the theater business...slowly. We know of lot of people that do the same thing.

meQal · March 28, 2009, 07:33:52 PM

One of my biggest pet peeves is people who refuse to take responsibility for their actions and blaming others for the results. I hate dealing people who do this and average seeing someone almost daily in either real life or on the net do this. If you screw up, just admit you screwed up and accept the consequences. Don't whine and blame everyone else for your screw up.

ghouck · March 28, 2009, 10:30:13 PM

Quote from: meQal on March 28, 2009, 07:33:52 PM
One of my biggest pet peeves is people who refuse to take responsibility for their actions and blaming others for the results. I hate dealing people who do this and average seeing someone almost daily in either real life or on the net do this. If you screw up, just admit you screwed up and accept the consequences. Don't whine and blame everyone else for your screw up.

Lol, welcome to my world. . .

ChuckSplatt · March 28, 2009, 10:51:59 PM

People that don't use turn signals while driving. They just suddenly slow down and make a 3MPH turn into their destination. They assume everyone is a very alert driver.

Mr. DS · March 29, 2009, 07:21:34 AM

Slow elderly drivers who decide to go out during the morning commute. Do they have to be up and about at that time? Really?

Wag · March 29, 2009, 09:35:18 AM

Quote from: The DarkSider on March 29, 2009, 07:21:34 AM
Slow elderly drivers who decide to go out during the morning commute. Do they have to be up and about at that time? Really?

They don't even have to be driving - I hate being stuck behind a slow elderly person in a busy street or supermarket aisle too.

ghouck · March 30, 2009, 12:46:48 PM

Quote from: ChuckSplatt on March 28, 2009, 10:51:59 PM
People that don't use turn signals while driving. They just suddenly slow down and make a 3MPH turn into their destination. They assume everyone is a very alert driver.

What I especially like is those who apparently use their signals to let you know what they just did, or more likely, to let you know they did it on purpose. People up here in the summer (tourists) seem to change lanes, and THEN signal.