Pet Peeves

[Kaymyth she/her]

15 hours ago, Slowswift said:

Well, guess who's never going to bike again out of social anxiety?   

It's really a matter of safety.  I can't adjust for other people on the path if I don't know they're there.  Same with people on foot (or slow riders) that I'm about to pass - if they don't know I'm there, they don't know to keep from wandering into my way.

If callouts trip your social anxiety, a bell or a horn are acceptable notification noises.

[+Slowswift]

23 hours ago, A Budgie said:

Oh, and another peeve: people not using their indicators when turning. I don't even drive and I hate it. I crossed a road once when I thought a car wasn't turning because it didn't indicate, and it beeped at me. I felt like shouting at it.

Saaame.

9 hours ago, Kaymyth said:

It's really a matter of safety.  I can't adjust for other people on the path if I don't know they're there.  Same with people on foot (or slow riders) that I'm about to pass - if they don't know I'm there, they don't know to keep from wandering into my way.

If callouts trip your social anxiety, a bell or a horn are acceptable notification noises.

Oh, I totally understand why the rules are there. Just implementing can be hard.

And yeah, maybe. I hope to be able to bike to places more often, and I need to work on the more mild aspects of my social anxiety anyways. 

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

I hate it when beautiful people smoke.

Like seriously, it's so....angering, seeing people throw their lives away like that. 

[Sunbird she/her]

I get irritated when I'm on the bus and need to get off at my stop, and the people who are getting on bull their way onto the bus without letting people off first. NO. Common sense dictates that you let the bus empty a bit before filling it more! And it's not like the aisle or stairway are actually wide enough for two people to pass... Same thing with elevators.

[A Budgie she/her]

21 minutes ago, Sunbird said:

I get irritated when I'm on the bus and need to get off at my stop, and the people who are getting on bull their way onto the bus without letting people off first. NO. Common sense dictates that you let the bus empty a bit before filling it more! And it's not like the aisle or stairway are actually wide enough for two people to pass... Same thing with elevators.

Don't forget trains.

[Sunbird she/her]

7 minutes ago, A Budgie said:

Don't forget trains.

True. Just didn't occur to me because I hardly ever ride trains.

[ParadoxicalZen he/him]

mosquitoes and flies -.- regional Oz has the most annoying creepy crawlies

[A Budgie she/her]

35 minutes ago, AnanasSpren said:

mosquitoes and flies -.- regional Oz has the most annoying creepy crawlies

Mosquitos are the worst.

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

41 minutes ago, AnanasSpren said:

mosquitoes and flies -.- regional Oz has the most annoying creepy crawlies

Your aussie? nice! and yeah, the flies in Australia seem to be more aggressive than other countries I've been too.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

"Saturdays are such a busy day at the onsite laundromat, which only has 10 washers and 10 dryers. Good thing I got here in time to take up four of each!"

[Mestiv he/him]

1 minute ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

"Saturdays are such a busy day at the onsite laundromat, which only has 10 washers and 10 dryers. Good thing I got here in time to take up four of each!"

I was always a bit fascinated by the places where Americans do their laundry. Here in Europe, or at least in Poland, every household has their own washing machine and hardly anyone has a dryer for clothes. I wonder why are we so different in the matter of laundry... it would be impossible to find a laundromat in Warsaw as far as I know. 

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

12 minutes ago, Mestiv said:

I was always a bit fascinated by the places where Americans do their laundry. Here in Europe, or at least in Poland, every household has their own washing machine and hardly anyone has a dryer for clothes. I wonder why are we so different in the matter of laundry... it would be impossible to find a laundromat in Warsaw as far as I know. 

Apartments with their own washer and dryer are more expensive than those without, hence laundromats. Some complexes, like mine, have laundromats onsite, but since mine is a smaller complex, the laundromat is small, and so it's even worse when someone needs six--yes, my initial count was too low--for their princess clothes.  

HAVE YOU NEVER HEARD OF PUTTING TWO LOADS IN THE SAME DRYER 

[marsoupial they/them]

1 hour ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

Apartments with their own washer and dryer are more expensive than those without, hence laundromats. Some complexes, like mine, have laundromats onsite, but since mine is a smaller complex, the laundromat is small, and so it's even worse when someone needs six--yes, my initial count was too low--for their princess clothes.  

HAVE YOU NEVER HEARD OF PUTTING TWO LOADS IN THE SAME DRYER 

Jezerezeh Almighty, remind me not to bring my dirty clothes to NOLA.

We have a washer/dryer set (Whether it is consistent in working or not is up for debate), but when we were in Chicago last summer we had to use a laundromat and waited a good twenty minutes to get a free washer. 

[Mestiv he/him]

And when you put your clothes in the machine you just sit there and wait or what? O.o 

[marsoupial they/them]

Just now, Mestiv said:

And when you put your clothes in the machine you just sit there and wait or what? O.o 

Or you come back later with the hope that no one has stolen your clothing.

Edited February 25, 2017 by bleeder

[Delightful]

On 23 February 2017 at 11:22 AM, Darkness Ascendant said:

I hate it when beautiful people smoke.

Like seriously, it's so....angering, seeing people throw their lives away like that. 

But what, ugly people can smoke away?

9 hours ago, AnanasSpren said:

mosquitoes and flies -.- regional Oz has the most annoying creepy crawlies

aint an Aussie till you swallowed on.

3 hours ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

Apartments with their own washer and dryer are more expensive than those without, hence laundromats. Some complexes, like mine, have laundromats onsite, but since mine is a smaller complex, the laundromat is small, and so it's even worse when someone needs six--yes, my initial count was too low--for their princess clothes.  

HAVE YOU NEVER HEARD OF PUTTING TWO LOADS IN THE SAME DRYER 

Its cheaper to pay a laundromat than to pay extra for the apartment?

1 hour ago, bleeder said:

Or you come back later with the hope that no one has stolen your clothing.

sounds legit.

[Oversleep]

56 minutes ago, Deliiiiiightful said:

Its cheaper to pay a laundromat than to pay extra for the apartment?

I thinks it's cultural difference - here there is no such concept as "apartment without washing machine is cheaper" because everyone has one.

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

Huh, same goes in Australia, we have no "laundromats" but we have dry-cleaners!

Then again, we did invent the clothe's wheel.

Oh and @Deliiiiiightful, who said I meant physical beauty? Everyone's beautiful in their own way

Edited February 25, 2017 by Darkness Ascendant

[Delightful]

23 minutes ago, Darkness Ascendant said:

Huh, same goes in Australia, we have no "laundromats" but we have dry-cleaners!

Then again, we did invent the clothe's wheel.

Oh and @Deliiiiiightful, who said I meant physical beauty? Everyone's beautiful in their own way

Fine fine you win  Silly me for being so materialistic.  

Clothes wheel? You mean washing line?

I'm pretty sure there are laundromats around, they just double as dry-cleaners. Or......well, you give them laundry and they wash it for you, but normal wash, not necessarily dry cleaning. I've never seen a place except for on campsites/holiday villages where you put money in a machine and do your own laundry.

[Silverblade5 he/him]

The idea that motives and intentions are more important than actions and results, or that the former should have the ability to exonerate the later or take away responsibility.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

13 hours ago, Silverblade5 said:

The idea that motives and intentions are more important than actions and results, or that the former should have the ability to exonerate the later or take away responsibility.

Relevant.

My peeve for today: "A call was transferred four times. This isn't good customer service. Oh, what's that? It was only transferred four times because it wasn't a question your department handles, and the department that does handle it didn't feel like answering and transferred it back? Oh. Well. It's still your fault. Do better next time or else." 

Proof that libraries aren't free of the brokenness plaguing other government branches, I suppose.  

Edited February 26, 2017 by TwiLyghtSansSparkles

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

When people draw inappropriate stuff EVERYWHERE

can't go a metre in my school without seeing a "spaceship" or something else much worse.

[Silverblade5 he/him]

16 minutes ago, Darkness Ascendant said:

When people draw inappropriate stuff EVERYWHERE

can't go a metre in my school without seeing a "spaceship" or something else much worse.

One time someone drew a swastika on a whiteboard.

[StrikerEZ he/him]

On 2/25/2017 at 10:05 AM, Mestiv said:

I was always a bit fascinated by the places where Americans do their laundry. Here in Europe, or at least in Poland, every household has their own washing machine and hardly anyone has a dryer for clothes. I wonder why are we so different in the matter of laundry... it would be impossible to find a laundromat in Warsaw as far as I know. 

It's weird, I know of laundromats, but I've lived in apartments since I was 7, and we've always had both a washing machine and a dryer in our apartments. I've never even seen a laundromat where I live, and I live in the US. I only know of them because I've seen them in commercials and sitcoms. Though, we do have dry-cleaners; however, we only use them when it's stuff like tuxes or fancy clothes that require special washing requirements. I've never even heard of using them to do your regular laundry.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

Me: *makes mistake at work without knowing* 

Passive-aggressive email: This thing is a mistake. Do not do this thing. 

My brain: 

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