This Really Annoys Me Pet Peeve Thread

[Galek]

As for my peeve, I can't watch a single show on Netflix any more without gay love being shoved in my face. I really could care less what less than 3% of the population does on their own time but I really do not want to see guys swapping spit.

I hear you. The other day Netflix forced me to watch a show with the delightful Lilly Tomlin and in the middle of episode 2 or 3 that guy from Law and Order and President Bartlet shared a smooch. I had to go take a shower and cancel my Netflix immediately.

Almost as bad as watching people from different countries hold hands. Like a Scotsman would ever associate with a Welsh girl...

 

[JonM]

Some people flipped when Kirk kissed Uhura, then most figured out that it is NBD.

 

[Pkrd]

As for my peeve, I can't watch a single show on Netflix any more without gay love being shoved in my face.

Just tell your significant other that your Netflix time is your alone time, but you'll make it up to him after the show. He's probably just a little jealous you're spending too much time with the TV and feeling neglected.

 

[MeatyPortion]

I know when I'm watching a show and it shows people doing something I don't agree with I write a sternly-worded letter to Reader's Digest.

 

[JonM]

The letter is required to include the word "appalled."

 

[MeatyPortion]

The letter is required to include the word "appalled."

https://www.consumeraffairs.com/misc/readers_digest.html

This person is appalled that Reader's Digest is recycling material, mostly from the internet. I'm intrigued because I had no idea that anyone aside from females in their late 60s-80s subscribed to RD.

Every month, I'm once again dismayed at the content of my Reader's Digest magazine. It used to be such a good read, almost from cover to cover. Today I actually took the time to turn to the organizational page to read who is presently responsible for the pitiful volume in my hand. Then I sought to find an online place to share my thoughts and concerns. A Google search brought me here to Consumer Affairs.

So what is wrong at Reader's Digest? Just about everything. I have the impression that the editors must be very complacent in their work because almost all the content of the magazine can be harvested off the internet social boards in just a few hours. Here's an example. People send me jokes and commentary articles frequently and a lot of them are funny - the first time I get them. Over the next few weeks, other people send me the jokes, articles and comments again and again until they're no longer of interest and are becoming a nuisance and a bore.

Then next month, I get my Reader's Digest and what is there besides the worn out jokes and comments and thrice-read articles from my internet experience? Not much. Obviously, somebody just collected a month's worth of internet drivel and published it in a book form. To be fair, there are several comments printed that I've not seen before. But they're typical of those that follow most any article on the internet. If I wanted to read a long list of comments following an article, I can do it anytime on my computer and read all of them - not just the ones that some editor selected out of the group for publication.

In other words, there is very little that is printed in Reader's Digest these days that we can't all go and read for ourselves to our heart's content until we become totally bored with the endless mass of it. We certainly don't need a printed magazine reiterating the comments from Facebook, Twitter and various online blogs. I honestly believe that I could single-handedly go on the Internet and put the whole content of a typical Reader's Digest issue together in a few hours.

The problem being, why would anyone want to read it in a printed page when it's all right there on the screen in front of us? Plus, we can be selective about those articles that strike our interest and we can even add our own comments at the end - along with everyone else's. In my opinion, executive editors, Barbara O'Dair and Courtenay Smith would do well to spend some time away from Twitter and Facebook and exert some energy in finding something to write that we haven't all been reading for ourselves all month ad nauseam. They've been wasting a lot of paper.

 

[Anon111]

My pet peeve: people that think teachers should work 50 weeks a year, just like everybody else.

 

[Schlenkerla]

My pet peeve: people that think teachers should work 50 weeks a year, just like everybody else.

Why is that?

I tend to think that worked until both parents started working.

My wife is a stay at home mom but dreads the summer because we only have one kid. So she has to put him in summer school, day camp, or arrange play dates. She also takes short vacations without me. We need to find a suburban home though. The city street we live off of is a very busy street and I have a bar next door that's open till 4AM.

If my employer gave me the summer off well then I might be with you on the 50 weeks thing.

 

[brewbama]

My pet peeve: when you break down and have a new A/C Heat unit installed and the installers don't check the whole system operation out. C'mon Man. The gas line and heater switch (deep in the bowels of the ship) was left in the 'off' position. No way could they have checked system out. I guess if they don't mind coming out fixing it at 9 PM on a Sunday they can keep doing stupid stuff.

 

[MeatyPortion]

When I send out an email detailing how to submit an expense report according to policy and then get 4 reports submitted with errors specifically covered in my email.

"Oh, I didn't know I had to read that."

No problem, you just won't get reimbursed as soon as you thought you would.

 

[Kee]

My pet peeve: people that think teachers should work 50 weeks a year, just like everybody else.

Most of my career (working offshore) consisted of working 26 weeks a year.

 

[Schlenkerla]

When I send out an email detailing how to submit an expense report according to policy and then get 4 reports submitted with errors specifically covered in my email.

"Oh, I didn't know I had to read that."

No problem, you just won't get reimbursed as soon as you thought you would.

I take they didn't reply, "tl;dr"

 

[Anon111]

Why is that?

I tend to think that worked until both parents started working.

My wife is a stay at home mom but dreads the summer because we only have one kid. So she has to put him in summer school, day camp, or arrange play dates. She also takes short vacations without me. We need to find a suburban home though. The city street we live off of is a very busy street and I have a bar next door that's open till 4AM.

If my employer gave me the summer off well then I might be with you on the 50 weeks thing.

In the first place: teachers wouldn't mind working up to 48 weeks a year, if they were payed all that time and the workload would be spread out over 48 weeks instead of 40 weeks.
Secondly that would mean kids would have to go to school too during those 8 extra weeks. Shorter and lighter weeks, yes, but no more summer jobs or long camps or whatever.

I think it's good your wife spends so much time with your child. Isn't daycare subsidised in case both parents work, or at least a few days a week subsidised? Or, another option, can't your wife work at a daycare?

 

[MeatyPortion]

I take they didn't reply, "tl;dr"

That would require actually opening the email, which most don't. I attached a form I referenced in the email to the email itself and then still got emails and phone calls about how people could get the form. That I attached to the email.

 

[bleme]

Isn't daycare subsidised in case both parents work, or at least a few days a week subsidised? Or, another option, can't your wife work at a daycare?

In my area, daycare is only subsidize by income.

 

[KayaBrew]

the ********* cop who ticketed me today for doing 37 in a 35. F*ck you!

 

[Schlenkerla]

In the first place: teachers wouldn't mind working up to 48 weeks a year, if they were payed all that time and the workload would be spread out over 48 weeks instead of 40 weeks.
Secondly that would mean kids would have to go to school too during those 8 extra weeks. Shorter and lighter weeks, yes, but no more summer jobs or long camps or whatever.

I think it's good your wife spends so much time with your child. Isn't daycare subsidised in case both parents work, or at least a few days a week subsidised? Or, another option, can't your wife work at a daycare?

At my income nothing is subsidized.

As I think about this there pluses and minuses about the summer being off. My kid struggles with writing but excels in math and reading. The latter in 97-99 percentiles. Extra time practising writing is needed.

My wife chooses not to work just to be able to do after school activities that would be difficult to do with a full time job. She also volunteers for her cousin's campaign. Her cousin is a state representative.

Not everyone can afford to do this, so having a school schedule that's comparable to a work schedule would be attractive for two working parents.

 

[bleme]

the ********* cop who ticketed me today for doing 37 in a 35. F*ck you!

That is ridiculous. You have to beg for a speeding ticket around here. The flow of traffic is 80MPH through a 65MPH zone every day to and from work and I have never seen anyone get a ticket.

BTW, unless the judge is related to the cop, you should be able to fight that. Federal regulation allows a speedometer to be 5mph off at 50mph so it doesn't seem right at all to ticket someone who falls within that allowance.

 

[dkwolf]

That is ridiculous. You have to beg for a speeding ticket around here. The flow of traffic is 80MPH through a 65MPH zone every day to and from work and I have never seen anyone get a ticket.

BTW, unless the judge is related to the cop, you should be able to fight that. Federal regulation allows a speedometer to be 5mph off at 50mph so it doesn't seem right at all to ticket someone who falls within that allowance.

And many cops will tell you that anything less than 10 over isn't really worth the time it takes to fill out the paperwork. Have had many officers tell me that 7 is kind of their limit - below that and they don't even think about it.

 

[CGVT]

Something tells me there is more to this story...

 

[kombat]

Something tells me there is more to this story...

Agreed - cops don't waste their time writing 2mph speeding tickets for polite, courteous, respectful, otherwise law-abiding citizens. I'd love to hear the cop's side of this story.

 

[NickTheGreat]

Agreed - cops don't waste their time writing 2mph speeding tickets for polite, courteous, respectful, otherwise law-abiding citizens. I'd love to hear the cop's side of this story.

There was a surly older man at Church growing up that famously got a speeding ticket for 3 or 4 over the limit.

He got pulled over for not getting over into the slow lane on the highway, resulting in people passing him on the right. The cop was likely just warning him, but the old man started chewing on him, "I was going 58 in a 55, you should be ticketing all of THEM!"

Allegedly he got the ticket for the 58 he admitted to

 

[GrogNerd]

people in 4-wheel drive vehicles who take speed bumps at speeds measured in hours per mile

 

[JonM]

When I was a teenager, we all knew about the tiny little municipality on the outskirts of town where the one cop was known as "The One Mile Man" - go through that town's Main Street at 26 instead of 25, he'd stop you.

Looking back, however, that sure sounds like urban legend meant to scare young drivers.

 

[Schlenkerla]

I've been stopped going 44 in a 40 mph limit. That was slowing down from a 55 mph on a two lane highway. This is at 10AM. I was driving to a job in Carrol Iowa.

I got a warning, but I think he was looking for somebody else. At the time I was driving a very common car. 2005 Silver Honda Accord.

 

[slym2none]

I had a cop stop me when I was 16 for some BS reason. He looks at my license, sees that I have to wear corrective lenses, and asks where my glasses are. I tell him I wear contact lenses. He doesn't believe me, thinks I am not wearing them.

I look at him through the window and repeatedly poke myself in the eyeball, telling him "If you can do this even once without it hurting, I'll buy you a Coke."

He left me alone after that.

 

[GrogNerd]

got pulled over for running thru a DO NOT ENTER sign, cops found a 2&1/2 inch electrical cable I used as a club, my radar detector (a no-no in the Commonwealth!) and SHOULD have hauled me in for DUI

one of them asked me to recite the alphabet backwards and I said I would do it, if he did it first. they let me go, telling me to go DIRECTLY home

think part of it was I also told them I had just got back to the States after serving in Desert Storm

 

[Steveruch]

part of it was I also told them I had just got back to the States after serving in Desert Storm

When I was in the Navy I got pulled over by a Los Angeles county sheriff for pushing the yellow light instead of stopping; I should have stopped. As soon as I stepped out of the car (in uniform) his expression took a quick 180 from stern to genial and I got a gentle warning. A couple of years later wen I got stopped by a Torrance cop for a U-turn I got the exact opposite when he saw my long hair and somewhat ratty clothes.

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

Avis employees who can't seem to close out reservations.

It's generally accepted at Avis that you can drop off the car without waiting for an attendant to check it in, walk away from it, and they'll close out the reservation and you'll get an email receipt. At least for people who have Avis Preferred. Sometimes I'll do that, either due to being in a hurry to meet my flight, or weather (like yesterday).

But now, on 3 separate occasions, they have forgotten to check the car in. So I've had to call them. And apparently now it'll take 2-3 days for them to fix the mistake and get me my receipt, so I might as well hold off doing my expense report until I get it.

Grr.

 

[KayaBrew]

Something tells me there is more to this story...

Nope.

Bridgewater, VT. This town is notorious for fascist sh*t like this.