Yeah it beggars belief. Modern dependance on technology is insane, some people really can't live for more than 10 minutes without checking myface or fwitter. Maybe there was some new rule passed but since iphones and social media people seem to do it more. I was watching a film with a few friends awhile back and one of them, she was just on their phone through the whole thing! Must have been bored by the DVD I guess.

Must not comment on- did they have electricity back then? How did people cope with black and white tv's? How did you cope without mobile phones and internet? Had the car been invented by then?

I'm sorry please forgive me! Could not resist that.

Not all of it was off base! I remember my mother's black-and-white telly, and I remember our first colour TV from the early-mid '70s: people tended to rent them back then because they were so expensive, but considering how often we had the service engineer out, it wasn't such a bad deal.

I don't really remember life without a telephone, but I do remember as well as the ringer that was loud enough to wake the dead, the delight of having a party line and that the people sharing it (probably their kids) had a habit of eavesdropping. Life before the internet, or more specifically before the world-wide-web, svcked: it was often a lot of effort to find out even trivial information about pretty much anything.

My dad had a car (an Austin Mini with a comedy front seat that tended to tip its passenger into the back) but probably most people didn't own one. Then again, public transport was actually usable.

Getting popcorn stuck in your teeth.

I'm a half Japanese driver, and I do just fine. I think you're full of [censored].

http://i.imgur.com/IT1W0.jpg

Nope, living in Great Britain, so the steering wheel is on the right side anyway.

Seconded.
(Wow, I sure do have a lot of pet peeves. It's unsettling.)

The other half saved you. And I'm pretty sure the stereotype is Asians in general.

I don't like it when people are almost touching me, or touching me just slightly.

People acting like they are [censored] members of Mensa when all they are are google kiddies. And just about every type of Internet scum out there.

People who almost hit me with their car when I am trying to cross. Legally of course.

Well of course there isn't a tub in the toilet! You'd never fit a tub into the bowl. Now, you can certainly have a bathroom that contained both a tub and a toilet, I've got one myself. All the bathrooms in my house have toilets and bathing mechanisms.

As for pet peeves:

1. squeaking shoes.

2. Gameplay vidoes on youtube that skip over dialogue or don't fully explore dialogue trees.

3. People popping the lock on a door. (that I locked)

4. People using GW's campus as the auditorum for their message of the day.

5. Protestors screwing up traffic.

6. Jaywalkers.

Also I hate it when people say YOLO. But I seem to find "swag" more acceptable.

When women don't bare enough cleavage. Drives me nuts.

Saved me from what? Until you can prove with a study that asians can't drive, I'm going to ask you to take your head out of your colon.

edit - er, actually, probably too irrelevant...

And handshakes!

The moment your hand touch mine and shake in a meaningless gesture, a bond of utmost sincere respect will be formed. Yeah, right, my pale ass.

I admitted it was just a stereotype, you missed the part where I was joking.

I also hate youtube comments, they for the most part just make me upset.

Oh, sorry.

I'm talking about in Japan. I live in Japan. It's different here, believe it or not.

People who lick their fingers to separate some paper, and then hand that paper to me.


That's another big one for me. But I really, really hate it if people call me "sir". It is very unfriendly and puts an immediate barrier up between me and the other person. I think it's awful.

1. When people say "like" every other word. I help out at my church's high school group, and this especially true of the girls (Just an observation. The guys say "like" in less quantity). They seem to say "like" every three words and it annoys me so much.

"You know he was like, "oh my gosh," I was like what the heck, she was like..."

I just want to blow myself up at that point.

2. When people play modern pop at parties, I just want to get up and leave at that point.

3. When people corrections of me are wrong.

At a party, there was a song playing, "How to Love," by Lil Wayne. I made a comment saying that the song was by Lil Wayne. This girl then rants at me saying that it's by Drake. I looked up the song on Itunes and almost died, people don't even know who made popular songs anymore.

I have plenty more, so many I could write a book.

Just remembered one while browsing youtube: People who put crappy music over gameplay videos. STOP. IT. If I wanted to hear your crappy taste in music rather than the game's sound, I'd look up the song.

Exceptions for things like stunt montages are fine, but regular gameplay? No.

Shallow, materialistic women who only go for guys with abs, good hair and "swag". I have to kick my own ass at the gym, waste loads of money on damn hair products and ... what the hell is "swag" these days?

It drives me to the edge, and pushes me over. Then they get mad when someone cheats on them.

My pet peeve is people, they irritate me, just kidding.

My pet peeve is ignorant religious people, I am not trying to start something, I am just saying they irritate me to no end because they act so stupid, and then try to force their religion on me. That is my main one I have lots.

Hey, you already started something by making this statement.

The New World Order will happen and we will enforce our beliefs, whether you like it or not!

. Kidding.