Pet Peeves

[Pestis the Spider she/her]

45 minutes ago, Renoux said:

Oh.  You don't happen to really like rain, do you?

Well, rain is not exactly fun, but it's not like I hate it. I'm just describing the actual weather here. You don't need to watch forecast to know it's going to rain, because it almost always rains here.  

[Kaymyth she/her]

2 hours ago, Renoux said:

Ok, time for an entirely new pet peeve!

New England weather. A forecaster will say "All sunny skies on Monday", and then it will rain. Or "Thunderstorms later on Thursday", and then it won't rain at all. Makes planning for outings or vacations ridiculously difficult.

I like our local forecaster.  He's a total weather nerd, and likes to focus on explaining what's going on and why things are likely to happen, as well as what can happen to change things.

FYI:  Snow is the hardest thing for meteorologists to forecast, because tiny changes in the atmosphere can lead to major changes on the ground.

[Renoux she/her]

5 minutes ago, Kaymyth said:

I like our local forecaster.  He's a total weather nerd, and likes to focus on explaining what's going on and why things are likely to happen, as well as what can happen to change things.

FYI:  Snow is the hardest thing for meteorologists to forecast, because tiny changes in the atmosphere can lead to major changes on the ground.

That's interesting! It makes sense, too!

[Sunbird she/her]

Insurance companies in general, but some specific things that have gotten on my nerves lately:

When you file an auto claim and they don't call you back for two weeks.

When you, after having heard nothing for two weeks, attempt to call them only to be told by their auto answer system that the office is closed because it's past 5pm Eastern time. (I live in Utah, so that is 3pm for me. I don't even get off work until 3pm.)

Automated answering systems that make you talk to the shoddy voice recognition--which is highly likely to misunderstand what you're trying to say--instead of letting you choose options by hitting buttons on your phone, which is much more reliable.

[Renoux she/her]

The smell of dead crickets and lizards. You may be thinking, huh, Renoux? What? What a random pet peeve. Allow me to explain. My brothers have a gecko, which is a type of lizard. Lizards eat live crickets. When the crickets die before being eaten, they are left on the bottom of the cage to decompose, because the gecko won't eat them dead. Also, lizards tend to poop very often, also releasing a rather unpleasant odor of dubious origin. So, whenever I walk into my brother's room, (not something I do normally, for good reason, but is necessary on certain occasions), it smells like decomposing crickets and lizard poop. Eew. Just eew. 

Edited August 10, 2016 by Renoux

[Sunbird she/her]

10 minutes ago, Renoux said:

The smell of dead crickets and lizards. You may be thinking, huh, Renoux? What? What a random pet peeve. Allow me to explain. My brothers have a gecko, which is a type of lizard. Lizards eat live crickets. When the crickets die before being eaten, they are left on the bottom of the cage to decompose, because the gecko won't eat them dead. Also, lizards tend to poop very often, also releasing a rather unpleasant odor of dubious origin. So, whenever I walk into my brother's room, (not something I do normally, for good reason, but is necessary on certain occasions), it smells like decomposing crickets and lizard poop. Eew. Just eew. 

My mom and I used to keep praying mantises as pets in terrariums, and we had to keep crickets on hand to feed them too, so I am very familiar with the foul smell of crickets. Stupid things wouldn't quit chirping either. Sometimes they'd get loose in the house during transfer from one cage to another, and chasing them down was a royal pain. If we didn't chase them down, they'd go hide and start chirping in the middle of the night. Ugh. I much preferred catching grasshoppers outside in order to feed the mantises, but that only worked when the weather outside was warm enough for the grasshoppers.

[Renoux she/her]

12 hours ago, Sunbird said:

My mom and I used to keep praying mantises as pets in terrariums, and we had to keep crickets on hand to feed them too, so I am very familiar with the foul smell of crickets. Stupid things wouldn't quit chirping either. Sometimes they'd get loose in the house during transfer from one cage to another, and chasing them down was a royal pain. If we didn't chase them down, they'd go hide and start chirping in the middle of the night. Ugh. I much preferred catching grasshoppers outside in order to feed the mantises, but that only worked when the weather outside was warm enough for the grasshoppers.

Yup. It makes it really difficult to sleep when there is a constant high pitched chirping in the background.

[Delightful]

Relevant to your weather complaints:

#aussiepride

[Orlion Blight he/him]

You know what grinds my gears? What people are defining as introvert nowadays. Essentially, an introvert needs "time alone to recharge" (guess what? So does everyone else!) and are socially maladapted, selfish individuals.

Why must the introvert be glorified as this self centered jerk?

[Renoux she/her]

Loud whistling. It hurts my ears, and gives me a headache.

[Oversleep]

That moment when you realize you forgot something. You remember well you were to do something and yet you can't remember what it was and it drives you insane.

Fortunately, I finally remebered (the result is new topic in BoM subforum).

[Delightful]

When someone doesn't close the door on the way out the room.....now I feel self conscious signing but couldn't be bothered getting up to close the door  

[Erunion he/him]

Pet Peeve: like massive pet peeve. And ridiculous. 

 

People calling Lego, Legos. 

It's an adjective (Lego bricks) originally, that's morphed into an uncounted noun (so the plural and the singular are the same, no s Like a sheep and sheep. Or water, or sand). 

[Delightful]

1 minute ago, Erunion said:

Pet Peeve: like massive pet peeve. And ridiculous. 

 

People calling Lego, Legos. 

It's an adjective (Lego bricks) originally, that's morphed into an uncounted noun (so the plural and the singular are the same, no s Like a sheep and sheep. Or water, or sand). 

Can I add when someone (OK, always out of ignorance but still) uses both a Hebrew plural and an English plural on the same word? It just sounds so weird and jarring. 

[Erunion he/him]

19 minutes ago, Delightful said:

Can I add when someone (OK, always out of ignorance but still) uses both a Hebrew plural and an English plural on the same word? It just sounds so weird and jarring. 

That happens? Cool! 
Hebrew would be an interesting language to learn.... 

[Dani she/her]

The word "karma" is just..

[Delightful]

26 minutes ago, Erunion said:

That happens? Cool! 
Hebrew would be an interesting language to learn.... 

Yeah  

eg

siddur (n) book of prayers 

plural: siddurim

non-Jewish teacher: "go get your siddurims"

inunderstand that you're trying but you're doing it wrong. 

 

It it is a cool language  then again I'm heavily biased  

6 minutes ago, Daniyah said:

The word "karma" is just..

The word or the concept? Why? 

[Dani she/her]

2 minutes ago, Delightful said:

 

 

The word or the concept? Why? 

The word 

It just sounds so annoying

[Erunion he/him]

2 minutes ago, Delightful said:

Yeah  

eg

siddur (n) book of prayers 

plural: siddurim

non-Jewish teacher: "go get your siddurims"

inunderstand that you're trying but you're doing it wrong. 

 

It it is a cool language  then again I'm heavily biased  

 

The grammar nerd in me just flinched at hearing that. Ouch. 

Well yeah! It was a semi-dead language that was completely revived and is now people mother tongue again! That is so linguistically cool! Add in it's religious significance, and the importance of accurate translation/understanding of scripture, and it becomes even cooler!

[Delightful]

2 hours ago, Erunion said:

That happens? Cool! 
Hebrew would be an interesting language to learn.... 

If you're interested, there's a Hebrew podcast I listen to. I think it's be ok for someone with no background in Hebrew. 

[luckat she/her]

15 hours ago, Erunion said:

Pet Peeve: like massive pet peeve. And ridiculous. 

 

People calling Lego, Legos. 

It's an adjective (Lego bricks) originally, that's morphed into an uncounted noun (so the plural and the singular are the same, no s Like a sheep and sheep. Or water, or sand). 

Huh. I have never heard someone use "Lego" as an uncountable noun. I always hear people refer to an individual Lego brick as "a Lego" and multiple bricks as "Legos." So I decided to look it up. The most useful thing I found is here.

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The plural form Legos is chiefly American. Other regions tend to use the uncountable form, or to speak of Lego bricks and Lego sets.

So being annoyed with "Legos" is kind of like being annoyed with "math" instead of "maths" or "honor" instead of "honour."

[Erunion he/him]

4 minutes ago, luckat said:

Huh. I have never heard someone use "Lego" as an uncountable noun. I always hear people refer to an individual Lego brick as "a Lego" and multiple bricks as "Legos." So I decided to look it up. The most useful thing I found is here.

So being annoyed with "Legos" is kind of like being annoyed with "math" instead of "maths" or "honor" instead of "honour."

Hence it's a silly pet peeve. I'm Canadian, so I hear math, I get both honor and honour, but I just cannot stand legos. It doesn't make sense, but there it is. 

[Sunbird she/her]

Sinks in public bathrooms that don't allow you to control the water temperature. What am I supposed to do if I value cleanliness, but don't want to scald off the skin on my hands??

When I close an ad in my email, only for it to open itself again 30 seconds later while I'm trying to compose a reply.

People who clip their nails at work. There are some activities that should not happen in an office environment, and this is one of them.

[Erunion he/him]

59 minutes ago, Sunbird said:

Sinks in public bathrooms that don't allow you to control the water temperature. What am I supposed to do if I value cleanliness, but don't want to scald off the skin on my hands??

When I close an ad in my email, only for it to open itself again 30 seconds later while I'm trying to compose a reply.

People who clip their nails at work. There are some activities that should not happen in an office environment, and this is one of them.

On the first one: get used to the scalding temperatures? Not much else there. 
On the second one: Adblocker maybe?

But yeah, that third one is unconscionable. I totally here you.

[Oversleep]

The links that make you believe there is an article to read... only to turn out after you loaded the page that there's one sentence, two at best and a video.

If I wanted to watch, why can't they just link straight to youtube instead of those pseudo-articles?