Pet Peeves

[Orlion Blight he/him]

Or they dig and paw thereabouts for over half an hour...spreading litter and clawing the walls!

[+Slowswift]

The Star-Spangled Banner. Don't get me wrong, it's a nice song and I love the flag, but maybe, just maybe, the national anthem should be about the country?  Just sayin'.

[Sunbird she/her]

People who claim to care about the well-being of birds but then let their pet cats roam around outside and kill birds.

Seriously, this guy made a post on a birdwatching page on Facebook that essentially said, "So I've had a pair of wrens nesting in my yard lately, and when I go outside today what did I find? Mother wren, dead on my porch. I am so mad at my cat!!" And I'm just sitting here thinking, It's your own stupid fault for letting your cat outside, dude. Cats gonna cat, but YOU should know better.

[Kaymyth she/her]

On 6/18/2016 at 7:15 PM, Sunbird said:

People who claim to care about the well-being of birds but then let their pet cats roam around outside and kill birds.

Seriously, this guy made a post on a birdwatching page on Facebook that essentially said, "So I've had a pair of wrens nesting in my yard lately, and when I go outside today what did I find? Mother wren, dead on my porch. I am so mad at my cat!!" And I'm just sitting here thinking, It's your own stupid fault for letting your cat outside, dude. Cats gonna cat, but YOU should know better.

I do hope that people are calling him out for his negligence and not letting him sit there and continue to blame the cat.

[Sunbird she/her]

You bet they are. I think the guy may have deleted his post so ppl would stop berating him.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

When BBC News assumes its American readers are idiots raised under the heaviest of rocks. 

I found one (which vanished the second I went back for another look) purporting to be information about the EU referendum for US readers. Opening paragraphs included things like "If you're from the US, your probably have questions....like 'What does EU stand for again?'" It went on the explain, in the most dumbed-down way possible, that the EU is a European organization with its own flag and everything! Wow! Isn't that neat, Americans? Are we going too fast? 

Yes, I'm American. I already know what EU stands for and what the referendum is all about, and why it's controversial. Tell me what will happen if one side or the other wins. I might live across an ocean, but I'm not an idiot. I'm one of your readers, actually, and you'd think that'd buy me a little respect. 

[Kaymyth she/her]

1 hour ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

When BBC News assumes its American readers are idiots raised under the heaviest of rocks. 

I found one (which vanished the second I went back for another look) purporting to be information about the EU referendum for US readers. Opening paragraphs included things like "If you're from the US, your probably have questions....like 'What does EU stand for again?'" It went on the explain, in the most dumbed-down way possible, that the EU is a European organization with its own flag and everything! Wow! Isn't that neat, Americans? Are we going too fast? 

Yes, I'm American. I already know what EU stands for and what the referendum is all about, and why it's controversial. Tell me what will happen if one side or the other wins. I might live across an ocean, but I'm not an idiot. I'm one of your readers, actually, and you'd think that'd buy me a little respect. 

Unfortunately, you know that there are Americans reading that who really ARE that dumb.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

2 minutes ago, Kaymyth said:

Unfortunately, you know that there are Americans reading that who really ARE that dumb.

True. But maybe, if the BBC acted as though the majority of readers weren't that dumb, they'd make the dumb readers smarter and not risk alienating their smart readers. Just a thought. 

[Orlion Blight he/him]

Spoiler

That I had to post this so I could post a post without a spoiler box! Smh

Edited June 22, 2016 by Orlion Determined

[Sunbird she/her]

Apparently you cannot read an ebook in the OverDrive smartphone app if you have no cell reception and no wifi. Mildly annoying.

8 hours ago, Orlion Determined said:

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That I had to post this so I could post a post without a spoiler box! Smh

*confused*

[Mestiv he/him]

30 minutes ago, Sunbird said:

Apparently you cannot read an ebook in the OverDrive smartphone app if you have no cell reception and no wifi. Mildly annoying.

*confused*

Isn't there this option to make a file available offline? It's done using parachute icon I think...

[Sunbird she/her]

The app says my books have been downloaded, which I took to mean that they should be available offline, but earlier when I was in an area with no wifi I couldn't even get into the app.

[Oversleep]

Background: I live in a small village just a stone's throw from the city (it's one of the biggest cities in the country) - I've got less than 500 metres to the sign saying "THE CITY". Problem is, the city's public transport doesn't reach there (idk why, a bunch of villages which are far further are covered by city's transport) so I have to relay on small private buses.

Lately I found a website which calculates all the possible routes (there are plenty of them, but this one covers even those private buses or even trains). It was really helpful, but recently it started to break down.
Once when I tried to look for a route it told me to go back to the city centre by train just to get inside a bus which has a busstop at the location I was searching for Another route included waiting 5 hours (?!) and a different one told me to take a bus passing through my village, then switch to another bus to come back to my place.

Clearly, the algorithm has gone insane and it's infuriating because it's not that complex! How did they storm it up so badly?! Who the storms was writing it?!

[Sunbird she/her]

People who complain that the air conditioning is making them cold but then refuse to put on an extra layer of clothes like a sensible person and instead insist on jacking up the thermostat to 78 F. What about those of us who are uncomfortably hot and sweating at 78 degrees, even when sitting still? We can't just keep taking our clothes off when we're already down to a single layer. (And even if we could, I'd probably STILL be sweating once I was in only my underwear.)

[Oversleep]

In every topic I make about Shards or Investiture or magic and I try to focus on some part of it, to analyze something, there is always someone who tries to explain to me what are the Shards or how magic works. Every time.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

12 minutes ago, Oversleep said:

In every topic I make about Shards or Investiture or magic and I try to focus on some part of it, to analyze something, there is always someone who tries to explain to me what are the Shards or how magic works. Every time.

I think that's a subset of a larger peeve—namely, that when people overexplain things you've demonstrated you know already.  

[Edgedancer he/him]

24 minutes ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

I think that's a subset of a larger peeve—namely, that when people overexplain things you've demonstrated you know already.  

Sparks yes. I think the worst case is asking a yes/no question and instead getting lenghty explanations of knowledge you required to have understood to formulate your question.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

2 minutes ago, Edgedancer said:

Sparks yes. I think the worst case is asking a yes/no question and instead getting lenghty explanations of knowledge you required to have understood to formulate your question.

Bonus points if you already understood everything they're telling you. Extra bonus points if you understand what they're explaining better than they do. 

[Oversleep]

52 minutes ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

Bonus points if you already understood everything they're telling you. Extra bonus points if you understand what they're explaining better than they do. 

Even more bonus points if their explanation not only covers less than your original post but also make no attempt at all to relate to it or answer the question asked.

[Queen Elsa Steelheart she/her]

Cold weather. i hate cold weather 

 

[Delightful]

56 minutes ago, Queen Elsa Steelheart said:

Cold weather. i hate cold weather 

 

It *is* a good excuse to drink lots of hot chocolate......

[Sunbird she/her]

1 hour ago, Queen Elsa Steelheart said:

Cold weather. i hate cold weather 

Queen Elsa Steelheart hates cold weather? o.0

Also, the word "Islamophobia." When you call something a phobia, you're asserting that the fear of whatever is irrational. Fear of Islam is NOT irrational, not after the heinous crimes that have been committed in recent months and years by self-professed Muslims in the name of their beliefs.

*prepares for backlash*

[Delightful]

1 hour ago, Sunbird said:

Queen Elsa Steelheart hates cold weather? o.0

Also, the word "Islamophobia." When you call something a phobia, you're asserting that the fear of whatever is irrational. Fear of Islam is NOT irrational, not after the heinous crimes that have been committed in recent months and years by self-professed Muslims in the name of their beliefs.

*prepares for backlash*

I agree to an extent; a lot of terrorists are Muslim and are religiously motivated, HOWEVER I will absolutely not say that all of Islam, or all Muslims, are evil.*

But, people have a phobia of spiders, or sharks, or other things that can hurt you. (Clarification, I am not calling Muslims things, they/you are people. Obviously.) So @Sunbird I'm not entirely sure that your point is valid.

Liguistically it's like homophobia. Some people believe religiously that homosexual sex is forbidden, and that there are two clear genders only. That doesn't make them afraid of LGBTQ people. It means they have a completely different worldview. 

*Muslim Sharders/people reading this: I'm trying real hard to have an opinion without offending you. If I've failed, I apologise. I'm totally open for discussion if you want to PM me.  

[Sunbird she/her]

1 hour ago, Delightful said:

I agree to an extent; a lot of terrorists are Muslim and are religiously motivated, HOWEVER I will absolutely not say that all of Islam, or all Muslims, are evil.*

But, people have a phobia of spiders, or sharks, or other things that can hurt you. (Clarification, I am not calling Muslims things, they/you are people. Obviously.) So @Sunbird I'm not entirely sure that your point is valid.

Liguistically it's like homophobia. Some people believe religiously that homosexual sex is forbidden, and that there are two clear genders only. That doesn't make them afraid of LGBTQ people. It means they have a completely different worldview. 

*Muslim Sharders/people reading this: I'm trying real hard to have an opinion without offending you. If I've failed, I apologise. I'm totally open for discussion if you want to PM me.  

I'm not saying that all Muslims are evil either--just that other people being afraid is a rational response after all the terrorist attacks, and that I think calling it a "phobia" is unjustified. "Once bitten, twice shy," to over-simplify my thinking.

[Nyali she/her]

The suffix "-phobia" has two modern usages. One is to refer to a psychological condition where someone is irrationally afraid of a specific stimulus, usually in a powerful manner. The other usage is social, rather than psychological, referring to bias or prejudice aimed at a specific class of people intended to denigrate, deride, or demonize that entire class.

Islam itself is a religion with a lot of peace and love in its teachings, just like all other Judaeo-Christian religions. In fact, it has a heck of a lot in common with both Judaism and Christianity. However, just like those other religions, Christianity in particular, there are people who twist it into something that it isn't, something that justifies their hatred of other people and their militant actions taken against people who believe differently. There are very strong parallels, in my opinion, between the conflict fought by people in ISIS who call themselves Muslims and the conflict fought by people who called themselves Christians during the Crusades. The Crusades were just as bad, if not worse, than what the Western World faces today from ISIS, only that was before mass media, and the ancestors of most people who speak English were on the side of terror back then, so we don't talk about it much these days.

My pet peeve: People who legitimize those who twist a religion to mean the exact opposite of its teachings by referring to them as members of that religion. It's why the current administration of the US avoids calling terrorists Muslims - they are acting directly against the teachings of Islam, and legitimizing them gives them power and alienates actual Muslims.

 

Oh, and while I'm at it, another pet peeve: Getting mailed hate-filled anti-LGBT propaganda from GoP SuperPACs just because I'm listed as an Independent  There was some in the mail this morning that said I shouldn't be using public restrooms because it's perverted for me to go to the bathroom  All this "we want women to use the men's room" stuff makes me wonder why exactly the far right wants women, especially teenagers, to be trapped in the men's room... but then I recall the link between the Religious Right in the US and pedophiles, and suddenly it all makes disturbing sense. Thank Harmony I live in a state with sensible public sanitation laws, even if some pedophiles are trying to overturn them!