Foo - Pet Peeve

Maybe it's just because I don't have kids but I think the United States (can't speak about the rest of the world) has gotten very tacky about certain things. It seems I am constantly ask to attend a 2 year olds birthday party for my co-workers, a wedding where I don't even know the groom or they are trying to hit me up for Girl Scout cookies (aren't the kids suppose to be selling them???) The lastest was a co-worker tacked up on the wall an invitation to his daughter's babtism and told anyone who walked by to read it and ask "can you make it?" I have never socialized with these people outside of work and I only see them about once a week because I work out of my house and only go into the office once or twice a week for about an hour. It seems to me that they are only trying to hit me up for gifts. When I rode in a Tour de Cure and ask for donations, do you think even one of them gave me anything for it--ofcourse not. :mad:

My pet peeve is people spelling baptism like babtism :(
Just tell them that you are unable to make it because you have to read to little timmy :D

Just tell them you love pre-marital sex too much and it might offend the church if you show up to a baptism.

My daughter attended a party for a friend when she turned three. There were about fifty people there and the birthday girl and my daughter were the only children. On top of that they had a buffet of Indian food....which neither child wanted. I wound up taking the birthday girl from her party and the two girls and I went to McDonalds where they enjoyed the playplace with the party continued. The mother happy to have her daughter taken from her own birthday party. :eek: Any excuse for a gathering, I guess.

One parent at ballet invited the entire school to her daughter's party. We'd never even met the mother or parent. No logic to this at all.

I guess it's the whole quantity over quality thing that's taken over America. If something is good, then a lot more of it has got to be better. It's part of the more, more, more, me, me, me mentality. Personally, I think you only have so many hours a day to interact with friends and family and i'm not going to sacrifice quality over quantity. So I'm very particular about how I hang with and would only consider a handful to be my friends. And they get the first and sometimes only invitation to my parties. :)

It seems to me that they are only trying to hit me up for gifts. Maybe they thought it'd be fun to socialize with you (and your other coworkers) in a non-work situation. I think you may be reading too much into the invitation.

Maybe you should attend these events with a date but without a gift. Eat all their food and drink all their booze, then leave. That will put an end to those pesky invitations. :)

Maybe you should attend these events with a date but without a gift. Eat all their food and drink all their booze, then leave. That will put an end to those pesky invitations. :)

:beer:

When I start a new job and I get the innevitable invitation to whatever, I make sure I show up really drunk, hit on my boss's wife and/or daughter(s), throw up at least once, and pee my pants. Once that's over, I never get another invitation. Works like a charm!

I hate babies.

I think it has a lot to do with where in the US it is too. I grew up in Upstate NY and never heard of any of this mostly parent birthday party style things (except for when it was the family birthday party and when I was young there weren't other kids yet). Then I moved to No.VA which is home to the two fastest growing counties in the nation and right outside of DC so it's full of politicians with money to waste. For them it seemed it wasn't so much about making the party enjoyable for themselves as it was showing off how much money they spent on it. They don't care if they're having a good time as long as they hear something like "Wow, I wonder how much that cost." at some point during the party. This became much more evident when I got a job at a local store that is much like Build-A-Bear. These parents would plan the party and you have to set a price limit per child and they would often say - "Whatever they want." With a min. of 6 kids per party I found myself making at times a dozen 50$ bears. And whenever the other parents would offer to pay - they'd quickly say it wasn't a problem.
That was kind of a tangent. But yea. Impressing others. LoL

I hate when people post in a bunch of threads just to populate the top of a subforum with threads where they were the last respondant. ;) :p :D

I hate babies.
:roflmao:

I don't like liars.

I'm sick of kid's selling things. (and i have kids) I don't understand why it is ok, for the school system to turn these little peddlers out onto the street to beg and grovel for money. If I sent my kids out like that, they (the govt.) would take them away from me. Freakin' ridiculous.

My wife and I figured, that we spend about $30 per month on kids that ring the doorbell selling crap. And that's AFTER we hide from most of them.

I hate barrens chat. (WoW players will understand...)

...actually let me elaborate....

I honestly think the idiots who chat in barrens chat have to have eaten at least 15 plates of pain chip nachos in the past 24 hours. I also think they have been drinking too much of the draino flavored kool-aid while they were at it. Seriously, who the heck speaks like "17 wr lf hlr wc pst plpz ty"? That's not even a single frickn word, let alone a sentence.

Seriously, I would swear these fools are popping moth balls as if they were lemonheads....

I'm sick of kid's selling things. (and i have kids) I don't understand why it is ok, for the school system to turn these little peddlers out onto the street to beg and grovel for money. If I sent my kids out like that, they (the govt.) would take them away from me. Freakin' ridiculous.

My wife and I figured, that we spend about $30 per month on kids that ring the doorbell selling crap. And that's AFTER we hide from most of them.
I guess what bothers me most about that, and I don't even have kids, is that the schools around here shut down at every possible lame excuse "due to budget constraints". Maybe you should fix the freakin' budget instead of pimpin' out the kids for pocket change and then shut down anyway. Stupid friggin' bureaucrats!:mad:

i don't like when co-workers bring children into the office. sometimes they run down the hall and other times they cry. i understand if it's an emergency and they need to quickly come to the office and grab something, but a lot of these times it's purely social.

I agree.. sometimes I think it's the parents that are more in a competition mode for thier kids to keep them in a good public eye, the parents bring the girl's scout cookies at work to sell them because they want and try to have the highest sells. Sometimes the bday party is a good show too to impress others. I have a friend who everytime her daughter has a bday, she puts on a "fair" for kids and circus ambiance but she ask for no presents and a donation instead the my greatest dream fondation ( a last wish for a dying child) and she has raised thousands every year.. now, that's the spirit..and her daughter loves doing this and gets the point.:)

i don't like when co-workers bring children into the office. sometimes they run down the hall and other times they cry. i understand if it's an emergency and they need to quickly come to the office and grab something, but a lot of these times it's purely social.
lol!!!! that one was funny.. dont you hate that kids cry sometimes? yeah they do as often as us "grown ups" whyne about something...hehehe

Quid Pro Quo. If you have supported their pet charities then you can reasonably expect them to support yours. That said, I have always kept a formal separation between work and the rest of my life. With the exception of Thin Mint cookies. :roflmao:

Quid Pro Quo. If you have supported their pet charities then you can reasonably expect them to support yours. That said, I have always kept a formal separation between work and the rest of my life. With the exception of Thin Mint cookies. :roflmao:
Bah! Not this again. Samoas > Thin mints.:p

People who do not wash their hands after using the restroom.

People who interrupt you while talking.

People who complain about traffic.

I think I've mentioned it before, but I hate it when people don't use their turn signals when driving or turn them on after they've started the turn. Thanks a lot, ****tard!

Ahem, anyway...I can't remember the source, but there were 57% of people polled who didn't use their turn signal. The majority of that 57% didn't use them because "they didn't have enough time." WTF kind of lame excuse is that? 7% said that not using their signal made driving "more exciting." Argh! And, before anyone mentions it, I know, I know...lies, damn lies and statistics, but if those numbers are even remotely accurate, it's a pretty darn good indicator of the apathy that's rampant in America. In my humble opinion, of course....

People who do not wash their hands after using the restroom.

People who interrupt you while talking.


People who can't not get pee on their fingers, so they have to wash them :D

Speaking of the bathroom, I get peeved at my pets when the do it on the carpet.

People who can't not get pee on their fingers, so they have to wash them :D

Yeah...the old standard reply.

Q. Didn't your mom teach you to wash your hands when using the restroom?
A. No, my mom taught me not to pee on my hands.

I'll reply with a paraphrase of a converstaion I had with my brother when I was about 18 or 19 (making him about 14 or 15).

ME: Didn't your mom teach you to wash your hands when using the restroom?
BRO: No, my mom taught me not to pee on my hands.
ME: So it's ok to touch your penis as long as you don't pee on it?
BRO: Sure....it's not dirty. I did shower.
ME: So, what you are telling me is that if you were eating a bowl of soup for lunch......I could come over, unzip my fly and drop my penis in your bowl of soup and as long as I had showered and not urinated, it wouldn't bother you to finish eating the soup?

ME: So, what you are telling me is that if you were eating a bowl of soup for lunch......I could come over, unzip my fly and drop my penis in your bowl of soup and as long as I had showered and not urinated, it wouldn't bother you to finish eating the soup?

Pretty much.

:roflmao:

Hi!

Pretty much.
Ok if you are a girl I guess.....are you?

ME: So, what you are telling me is that if you were eating a bowl of soup for lunch......I could come over, unzip my fly and drop my penis in your bowl of soup and as long as I had showered and not urinated, it wouldn't bother you to finish eating the soup?


Bold Mine

I like my soup HOT... still want to play? :p

Bold Mine

I like my soup HOT... still want to play? :p

Well..........maybe after its cooled a bit.

Hi!
Hola! I wasn't sure if that was a Caboose reference or not, but it still cracked me up. He's my favorite!:)

Bold Mine

I like my soup HOT... still want to play? :p
:lol:Stacey, you're killin' me over here....

<gag>Anyone for some soup?<vomit>

Bah! Not this again. Samoas > Thin mints.:p

Fact. I don't think anyone can dispute that statement if they're being truly honest with us.

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people who don't "courtesy flush" when needed. Honestly, I couldn't care less of how proud they are of their crap's odor...I just want them to pull the f**king lever down and get rid of the freaking toxic cloud that is spewing forth from their general location.

Hola! I wasn't sure if that was a Caboose reference or not, but it still cracked me up. He's my favorite!:)

How'd you know?

Do you watch Red vs. Blue?

How'd you know?

Do you watch Red vs. Blue?
Have you checked my location, lately?;) I just became a sponsor, actually. Ep. 76 is out already!

Oh wow...

1. Kids that aren't under control. Speaking as a former waiter, not everyone thinks your kid is "adorable," and when he's underfoot or having a tantrum or making an inordinately huge mess, other people have to deal with it. A spanking or two never hurt anyone.

2. I don't mind people who don't work as hard as me, but it burns me up to have to clean up after them. Fortunately, I have never been passive aggressive about confronting people like this. I got in an argument with a coworker today about this very thing, and I think he was about to cry. It was amusing.

3. Plastic surgery. We really need to put the brakes on, people, and you know what I mean. It was okay when it was Joan Rivers and a few people unfortunate enough to be deformed, but now I go to the grocery store and Mr. and Mrs. Bad Botox are all up in my grill with their Nancy Reagan velocity-faces, and it hurts my soul. Please, please, read some Thoreau, lest your very existence become embarassing.

4.Drunk people who want to talk your ear off.

5. Wal Mart, unless it's 3AM, which is the best time to go on safari for Wal-Martians, (without buying anything, naturally.)

6. People with monstrous dogs who don't have them on a leash or in a fence. This is very common, and is reflective of the fact that most American's idea of "freedom" is like a 13 year-old's-"It's like, you can do whatever you want, and just tell everyone else to **** off, dude."

7. Lateness. I am always a few minutes early for everything. Those who are habitually late are either idiots, inconsiderate of others, or both.

8. People who not only leave their cellphone on in the movie theatre, but will answer and talk on it without going to the lobby. If I looked up and it was "Matlock," I might let him slide, but that's never happened. Cellphone use seems to have led to an inflated sense of self-importance, or it's too young a technology for etiquette to have caught up to it yet. Regardless...

9. NPR has really started to grate on my nerves. No wonder nobody defines themselves as "liberal" anymore. I'm all for "alternative" radio, but there's a reason nobody but old, ex-hippies listen to that ****.

10. People who come to me to get their cars fixed with an ashtray full of roaches, a can of beer in the console, and a baby seat in the back. Nuff said.

11. People who wheel around oxygen tanks with the tubes running up their nose who stop to smoke. Sorry, Charlie, but you failed at life.

12. People who talk **** about Stephen King and have never read him. This is a litmus test for pretensiousness, closely akin to people who are always talking about being vegetarian, but eat seafood.

13. Being homeless in SoCal and having NeoNazi Skinheads try to befriend you and call you "brother," as they are wont to do, and realizing if you tell them to eat **** and die, it might be YOU that eats **** and dies, but if you are silent, they will assume you are one of them. Ambivalence like that sucks. (I swear, SoCal must have more NeoNazis than anywhere on the PLANET. I'm from the Deep South, and I hardly ever run into these jokers around here.)

14. Alex Trebek.

15. "Creation Science."

16. Libertarians-except for Ziggurat.

17. Shopping centers that have a day labor place, a check cashing place, and a liquor store all in a row. They might as well have a gun shop there, too and have done with it.

18. People who run waiters ragged, run up a huge bill, then leave them a dollar and a Chick Comic or Bible tract.

19. The fact that people on crystal meth have lots of free time to do other weird **** because they don't have to sleep. I met a guy in Tunnel Hill GA who'd invented a gun that shoots railroad spikes the first time I ever took acid who fit this profile. It made an ungodly noise, but then all of a sudden there was a railroad spike embedded halfway into a tree. All I could say was "Do that again."

20. People who sit and think up 20 different pet peeves for an internet message board about bikes.

Oh wow...

"Oh wow..." is right! Jeez, man! Not complainin', by any means, that's just a hell of a list.

I don't get the Libertarian thing, tho.... Well, I'm not a strict Libertarian, anyway...I still eat seafood.

"Oh wow..." is right! Jeez, man! Not complainin', by any means, that's just a hell of a list.

I don't get the Libertarian thing, tho.... Well, I'm not a strict Libertarian, anyway...I still eat seafood.
:)

ME: So, what you are telling me is that if you were eating a bowl of soup for lunch......I could come over, unzip my fly and drop my penis in your bowl of soup and as long as I had showered and not urinated, it wouldn't bother you to finish eating the soup?

Unless you eat your soup on a plate you probably wouldn't even make contact.

Bah! Not this again. Samoas > Thin mints.:p

My wife agrees with you. However I am the one who gets off in time to catch the little goblins in green so it is two to one thinmint over samoas :p

cars making left/(right) turns from right/(left) turn lanes when I have started moving in the though lane.

"Oh wow..." is right! Jeez, man! Not complainin', by any means, that's just a hell of a list.

I don't get the Libertarian thing, tho.... Well, I'm not a strict Libertarian, anyway...I still eat seafood.
Say it ain't so! :eek: Libertarians can't eat seafood?!?!?


Card meet shredder.

One of my biggest pet peaves is when people touch the controls (radio/heater etc.) when i am driving my car.. grrrrrrrr

Congradulations


Arrghgghhh - card/balloon makers should be shot! Actually a lot of mis-spelled cutsy stuff like that Pisses me off

(btw congraTulations! Just because they make stuff for graduations doesn't give them the right to dis-educate most people who use the word.)

Ok if you are a girl I guess.....are you?

I wish.

Have you checked my location, lately?;) I just became a sponsor, actually. Ep. 76 is out already!

Man that's sweet.

I got a good Caboose quote.

"Your toast has been burnt, and no amount of scraping can remove the black parts."

:D

Oh wow...

1. Kids that aren't under control. Speaking as a former waiter, not everyone thinks your kid is "adorable," and when he's underfoot or having a tantrum or making an inordinately huge mess, other people have to deal with it. A spanking or two never hurt anyone.



That's another one of mine. Whenever we take the kid out with us to dinner, we're seated near other kids because people assume (and they don't know so it's a fair assumption) that the kid is going to be noisy and horrible and generally ruin appetites all around them. Inevitably, there's always some kid making some awful noise to get attention and the parent completely ignoring them and carrying on a conversation with his/her dining companion. Meanwhile the kid is throwing breadsticks and doing the Spongebob war cry. How do they do that? I'm a parent and I can't do that.

Man that's sweet.

I got a good Caboose quote.

"Your toast has been burnt, and no amount of scraping can remove the black parts."

:D
I love that one! I think that he and Sarge make this episode. One's insanity kind of balances the other's.

Just to stay on topic, here's a pet peeve: Rooster Teeth is taking too long getting season 4 done! I want the DVD already!