Pet Peeves

[Sami she/her]

One of my more irrational pet peeves:

When someone pretends to imitate a conductor, but they don't have the slightest inkling that there's more to it than just bobbing and waving your hands in the air, in time to the music

[A Budgie she/her]

1 hour ago, Sami said:

One of my more irrational pet peeves:

When someone pretends to imitate a conductor, but they don't have the slightest inkling that there's more to it than just bobbing and waving your hands in the air, in time to the music

Well...as an advanced music student, I can say that that's really what it is  
But yeah, there's certainly more to it.

[Steeldancer he/him]

I would like to say that flat earth is plain wrong. I've been on a plane flying high enough that I could see the curvature of the earth. It was UBER cool.

Pet peeve; when all people do is shoot down your ideas. 

[Draginon he/him]

16 hours ago, Darkness Ascendant said:

She needs a proper holiday on her own.

I doubt that'd help her at all. She doesn't relax on vacation at all, always worrying something will go wrong at work, so a holiday alone wouldn't help since she'd probably keep texting/calling me if I'm alright.

 

10 hours ago, Steeldancer said:

Pet peeve; when all people do is shoot down your ideas. 

That was my high school experience. No one ever wanted my ideas or input to the point of excluding me from group projects.

[Draginon he/him]

Here's one, when a company thinks fans will be crazy enough to plop down hundreds to thousands of dollars at once for a franchise they love. Was watching a video where someone got the new Lego Millennium Falcon and I don't think I'd give up $800 for that, especially when there are other sets with the same piece count for a fraction of the price. Heck I bought the Disney Castle and it was practically half the price for a similar piece count, even the Ninjago City set is cheaper than the Falcon. Is the license really worth an extra $400??? And this is coming from someone who is a fan of Star Wars.

[Kaymyth she/her]

On 9/11/2017 at 10:51 PM, Slowswift said:

They've switched back to an oldies station at work.

Kill me now.

I now find myself wondering what counts as "oldies" to kids these days.

[+Slowswift]

2 hours ago, Kaymyth said:

I now find myself wondering what counts as "oldies" to kids these days.

Fifties, a little bit of sixties. There may be some forties, but since I don't really like music from that era, I'm not particularly inclined to find out.  There may also be a splash of early seventies, so I don't think it's straight old stuff. But either way, I can't stand it.

[Draginon he/him]

5 hours ago, Kaymyth said:

I now find myself wondering what counts as "oldies" to kids these days.

I count anything before the current decade to be 'oldies' but more specifically I would start with the 80's and earlier

[+Slowswift]

Aaand they've switched it back. Thank goodness.  

[Sunbird she/her]

<- loves 80s music, even if it's "oldies."

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

1 hour ago, Sunchicken said:

<- loves 80s music, even if it's "oldies."

:same:

[Kaymyth she/her]

On 9/15/2017 at 2:36 PM, Slowswift said:

Fifties, a little bit of sixties. There may be some forties, but since I don't really like music from that era, I'm not particularly inclined to find out.  There may also be a splash of early seventies, so I don't think it's straight old stuff. But either way, I can't stand it.

OK, that makes me feel better, cause that's my definition, too. And I generally agree, though I do admit that some of the more Beach Boys-esque stuff is fun every once in a while.

On 9/15/2017 at 5:46 PM, Draginon said:

I count anything before the current decade to be 'oldies' but more specifically I would start with the 80's and earlier

...and now I feel old again.

Really, 80s music is kind of in its own genre. There's just this weird quality about it that makes it so quintessentially 80sish. It's like nothing that came before it, and stuff that's come after that sounds like 80s music is automatically declared 80s retro.

[Steeldancer he/him]

Im 17 but I love 70s music. Blame GotG. 

[Sunbird she/her]

I can thank my parents and the Rock Band video games (not blame!) for my love of 70s and 80s music.

[Draginon he/him]

1 hour ago, Kaymyth said:

...and now I feel old again.

Really, 80s music is kind of in its own genre. There's just this weird quality about it that makes it so quintessentially 80sish. It's like nothing that came before it, and stuff that's come after that sounds like 80s music is automatically declared 80s retro.

You're only as old as you think you are.

I'm a 90's kid so the 80's is old for me but I love that stuff, especially since I was born right at the beginning of the 90's so there wasn't much 90's stuff available yet. Heck my favorite Lego Dimensions franchises are the ones from the 80's (Back to the Future, Gremlins, Beetlejuice, ET) so that shows something

[Kaymyth she/her]

2 hours ago, Draginon said:

You're only as old as you think you are.

I'm a 90's kid so the 80's is old for me but I love that stuff, especially since I was born right at the beginning of the 90's so there wasn't much 90's stuff available yet. Heck my favorite Lego Dimensions franchises are the ones from the 80's (Back to the Future, Gremlins, Beetlejuice, ET) so that shows something

I turned 40 last month. I'm on a cane-shaking gerroff my lawn kick right now.

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

Memes brought me to the oldies songs  

 

[Draginon he/him]

On 9/18/2017 at 4:15 PM, Kaymyth said:

I turned 40 last month. I'm on a cane-shaking gerroff my lawn kick right now.

How's that working for ya 'grandma'?  

Seriously though, you'll still be reading these books when you're a cane wielding, cat lady, curlers in hair, gum smacking granny shaking your head at the younguns not understanding the appeal of an old series like the Cosmere.

[little wilson she/her]

Pet peeve: Adult roommates who don't practice very basic prevention techniques for maintenance - who don't even understand the logic for these prevention techniques. And this isn't 18-22 year old adults. This is 25-30 year old adults. People who should know by now, because they've been living away from their parents for at least 3 years, if not closer to 10+.

Some examples:

• Keeping the thermostat high enough in the winter months (when temps drop below freezing) to prevent the pipes from freezing
• For girls: catching your long hair before it goes down the drain to prevent drain clogs (or at least slow them down)
  • If you don't do this, you should at least know how to snake a drain
• Leaving the fan in the bathroom on after hot showers so the bathroom gets properly ventilated and black mold doesn't form in the tub and sink

The last one is what I'm having to deal with right now. I've had to deal with the other ones in the last 1-2 years. My current roommate takes showers every morning and shuts the fan off when she leaves the bathroom. We're in the basement. The fan is the only source of ventilation for that bathroom. If it's still muggy (which it always is because her showers are hot), that creates the perfect conditions for mold and mildew to form. That's just logic. She's lived here for about a month, and she doesn't understand why black mold is forming in the tub (and spreading around the tub, and starting to form in the sink now too). I'm pretty sure she thinks I'm contributing to it, because she really wants to assign cleaning assignments in the apartment, and the rest of us are like "Dude, we're not in college anymore. We don't want clean checks. We're adults. Let's just clean up after ourselves."

I have no idea how to broach that topic in a way that won't seem aggressive or condescending. I mean really. How do you tell a 28 year old woman that she needs to leave the fan on or mold will form because of the humidity? Shouldn't she already know this?

[Draginon he/him]

@little wilson got a similar problem with black mold from work. People will get books wet and then immediately seal them into a book without drying them out. They'll bring it out a couple months later and put the books into a milkcrate or on the shelf. It's incredibly obvious when it's moldy and yet they do nothing to protect the health of their students. The only reason I can think is because they have this mentality that they'll have to be forced to pay for it out their paycheck. BTW these are people ranging anywhere from early 20's to 70's.

[Caesura she/her]

As a uni student recently moved out of home, flatting is... interesting. I grew up on a budget and doing plenty around the house, but half my flat has very little concept of how to budget or think for themselves. Like, no, we don't need to buy premade sauces/breadcrumbs/whatever, we already have everything we need to make that. Yes, it is possible to cook something without burning the bottom of the pot black. No, you shouldn't put your washing in the dryer in the middle of the day, it's sunny out and your room has a balcony. If you're in a t shirt and shorts in the middle of winter, the correct response is to put more clothes on, not turn your heater up to full.

[Draginon he/him]

I'm up in Fort Worth for a conference my mom just had to come to but because of the time they want people to be there plus morning traffic it was easier to stay by the place. The big problem is the school region centers are never in good neighborhoods, always in the run down/ghetto portions of the city they are in so you have to deal with terrible restaurants in the area, even chain restaurants have poorer quality in these areas.

Anyway as we were packing my mom got everything out of the bathroom so I started piling up the towels, she wastes every single towel by putting them on the floor instead of saving them for a couple days like a normal person, to save her from doing. Is she grateful? NOPE! She made me pull one towel out for her to walk on just so that she could wash her hands, but that was after she hesitated to figure out why she wasn't done in there so it was just an excuse on her end. It's like nothing I ever do for her is ever the right thing to do, which makes me not want to do anything for her at times and then she wonders why I'm 'lazy' and don't do things for her. She even thinks I'm thoughtless when it comes to her. Here's a small act of thoughtfulness to show how different we are, when we get drinks at a fast food restaurant I grab two straws (one for me and one for her) while she gets a table but she'll grab one for herself anyway, if she gets the straws while I get a table she'll only grab one straw making me have to get my own. Who's the thoughtless one in this case?

[Ammanas]

@Draginon I thought you were living in Florida now or am I completely misremembering things? 

I'm curious if you are a female? Feel free not to answer if it makes you feel uncomfortable, but the reason I ask is that it seems like your relationship with your mom sounds like my sisters' and our mother and I am working on a theory. 

If you are a male, I apologize and regardless I hope you have a better day! 

[Draginon he/him]

1 hour ago, Ammanas said:

@Draginon I thought you were living in Florida now or am I completely misremembering things? 

I'm curious if you are a female? Feel free not to answer if it makes you feel uncomfortable, but the reason I ask is that it seems like your relationship with your mom sounds like my sisters' and our mother and I am working on a theory. 

If you are a male, I apologize and regardless I hope you have a better day! 

I live in the Dallas area. I would love to live in Florida though.

I'm a guy so... But my sister doesn't get along with her either and has gone past the end of her rope. I've talked more in length with my gf about how my mom is and even she can't understand her (she lives in Denmark so I am getting a different cultural opinion there) and she has her own problems with her parents but we both can see where they're coming from on their issues concerning her (like not wanting her to watch horror films because they want her to be a good young lady or to not forget her heritage and ancestors since she's not European by ancestry)

To show just how twisted my mom's logic can be, she claims I'm autistic (I don't believe it's real tbh) even though I don't show the symptoms associated with it. Like I'm an introvert with some social interaction problems but when you got bullied in school for no reason it'd be amazing not to have some form of social interaction problems.

[Silverblade5 he/him]

That moment, which you're so focused on work for a class, that you forget that others exist.