I've had a pissy day at work, so I need to rant about some stuff.

My biggest pet peeve is when people think they're a "computer person" because they how to use the internet. And think they know more than you.

Me and my friend were over at his mothers house and she was complaining about her computer being slow. I said I'd take a look at it, but she said her daughter "knew computers" and asked her to fix it.
Her "fix" was to use the disk cleanup feature.
This didn't work so she told her it was unfixable and she needed a new computer.

No matter what I said, she didn't let me even touch it.

The problem was a simple combination of Vista, a single core CPU, 512MB of ram, an integrated GPU, and an ungodly amount of programs running in the background.

My friend simply told her he was taking it to a professional to get fixed. It was an easy fix. I had some bigger, appropriate speed ram lying around from an old build, and set those programs to not run on startup/uninstalled them. It was working decent after that, as decent as a PC with those specs can be.

I'm not a master with computers or anything (i'm working on getting my BS in computer science), but when I know I can fix something, I will.


Another one is Smoking. Nothing against the people who smoke, but the act. IMO, its the worst smell in the world and whenever I smell it my throat closes up and its hard to breathe. I don't have asthma or anything, but It just so bad. Even more when you ask people to put it out, and they just give you the finger.


Alright ranting over. You have anything that irks you?

I don't like different types of food touching or mixing together and I don't like people who never shut up about one subject. I had this guy in JROTC who would never shut up about his guitar everyday he said look at this crappy guitar magazine(different one almost everyday) and he would point out which he liked and wanted. I swear if wasn't against the school rules or the law I would've smacked him.

People that ask me to put out my cigarette. Only joking - if I smoke in public it's in designated smoking areas.

Seeing as you started off with a work-related one I'll add to that. In the last year I've gotten a managerial(ish - my title says manager but it's more admin based) position where I work (and have worked for the past 8 years), and now I get to watch certain other managers in the office talk for literally hours over cups of tea about how lazy all the underlings are, how this company is going down the drain, if they were in a higher position they'd sack the lot and start over with proper workers etc. All I can think is YOU'RE SITTING HERE DOING EFF ALL EXCEPT COMPLAINING WHILE THEY'RE OUT DOING THE ACTUAL WORK WHILE YOU GET PAID MORE TO SIT ABOUT MOANING AND BARK ORDERS EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE WHEN YOU DEIGN TO STICK YOUR HEAD OUT OF THE OFFICE. It's caps because that's what it is in my head. I can't call them out on it, because frankly I spend enough time calling certain people out on their opinion that [insert demographic here] is what causes crime in our country and any more confrontations would mean I would be out in the cig shed for my entire shift.

My pet peeve is when people go out of their way to insist on doing multiple things for you and then fail to follow through, often times even avoiding you altogether.

Every time someone spells "lose" as "loose," I get the urge to kick a pregnant woman in the stomach. THEY'RE TWO DIFFERENT WORDS, YOU MORONS! Get it [censored] right already!

The sound of someone using a hammer. Not because it itself is annoying (though it can be if done excessively), but because it always fools me into thinking someone is knocking on my door.

People who try to learn guitar. Nothing wrong with trying to learn a new instrument...but for crying out loud, I don't want to hear your [censored]-ups! Seems that no matter where I go, there's always someone with a guitar living nearby. Always. I've come to really hate this instrument.

SUV drivers. When I encounter a moron on the road, nine times out of ten it's some idiot driving one of these worthless gas-wasting clunkers.

Pants without pockets.
What you said and stuff.
Uh and hmm, people who only talk about CoD and Battlefield.
And battlefield being a "realistic game"

Whenever Skyrim is brought up in the Fallout section.

• When I do something involving symmetry or proper organization, only to see it laused up in the end, my mind literally forces me to start over from square one.

• When people have a spot or tear on their lapel or shirt, it's even more awkward if it's a girl, because I'm spending my whole time staring at their chest just wishing I could burn that damn spot off their shirt or jacket.

• Smokers just casually lighting up beside you in an enclosed space, not even asking if you mind, I've had it happen before, it's just plain rude.

• Anytime someone is undeniably wrong but they're to stubborn to admit their error.

• Grammar Nazis, seriously. No one cares that you spell it right 99% of the time, the moment you screw up, I'm going to call you out on it just to give you a dose of your own medicine. It's not cute when you do it either.

I have some similar ones. In my case, it's people spelling "you're" as "your" or "than" as "then". Bad grammar in general drives me crazy, since it makes it hard to understand what people are trying to say. My grammar isn't perfect (whose is?), but at least I make an effort not to confuse my homophones.

Idiots who "drive" while talking/texting on their phones. I was nearly run off the road twice on the way to work today by dumbasses doing one or the other. Put the damn phone down and pay attention to driving!!!
Telemarketers calling my cell phone. My number is on the national "do not call" list, yet I still get tons of marketing calls. Makes me want to hurl my phone into a brick wall, beat it repeatedly with a sledge hammer, then run over the remains twice with a steam roller.

Neighborhood dogs that bark ALL NIGHT LONG! I'm an extremely light sleeper, so it takes very little to wake me up.

being used
my parents (im 23 so no teen angst just hate my parents)
when people touch me
when im in a room with people
when people 'borrow' penicls or pens and dont return them
when people ask to borrow a piece of paper, i honestly dont want your paper why not ask to have
when people touch my bag
when people touch my hats
when anyone goes near my car

I mostly just do this to myself. Even if I see a post I made a few weeks ago with one mistake in it, I have to edit it.
This is honestly how I got the majority of my pens and pencils in high school. It's also how I lost the majority of my pens and pencils in high school.

someone wouldnt quit asking to borrow a pen so i stabbed his bag with it, didnt get caught felt like a boss

Misconceptions tick me off. They're so inherent to our nature and behavior and yet so frustrating.

I'm a bit of what one might call a grammar and/or spelling nazi, but I'm not too fanatic about it. I don't go out of my way to correct these things and do understand when people have linguistic impairments, are speaking a non-native language, are speaking in their native language just with an accent and specific lexicon and grammar principles that differ by region, make common mistakes (we all make these), etc. but otherwise, I am ticked off (exclusively) by an arguably growing lack of proper lingual skill development and "text-speak" , especially, though not necessarily by the person, just by the pitiful linguistic capabilities themselves. I edit my posts and such all the time even just for minor mistakes and that's as fanatic as it gets, so I'm not sure if I really qualify as a grammer nazi, really.

I can't think of anywhere where this really applies aside from a habit of my mother's, but she picks at food. For example, she'll dig through a brand new box of honey bunches of oat cereal with almonds... and eat all the almonds and a decent-sized amount of the clusters leaving behind some clusters and the flakes without almonds. Then she turns around and picks on me for being picky on which parts of certain meat products I do and do not eat (for example, I eat chicken and end up selectively shredding and eating various pieces so as to avoid spots I perceive as being too tough, not really chicken meat, "imperfect", etc.; meat... just gets to me... grizzle in steak, disgusting veins in chicken wings, bones in trout, etc.). I suppose that's two things in one. I eat meat, but parts of it freak me out and annoy me.

This brings me to another annoyance... hypocrisy.

Corporate/big business influence and consumerism are another one in all the facets they embody.

Another thing is my mother's habit of choking on food. I know that reads off a bit strangely, but yeah, you know those parts of chicken I avoid? My mom will try to swallow those anyway and doesn't always chew so thoroughly, so she scares me half to death every now and then when I literally think my mother might die because of how violently she seems to be choking... then she's fine a few seconds later. Still, I'm really worried about her. My younger brother used to have a similar habit and because of it and the food that typically seemed to cause it, I'm very nervous when he's eating any chewy products, particularly certain cheeses, and I myself am incredibly careful around said products, as well. Also, hard candy... hate when people eat it for a similar reason. Now that I think about it, this has kind of shown itself to be more than a pet peeve and more of a phobia of choking I seem to have... whatever, it annoys me either way.

Egotism and subsequent lack of consideration for others in reckless or selfish behavior and actions are big ones, as well. It's a broad topic, but for example, people that drive, for whatever reason, recklessly... just don't freaking do it, people and please make special care to slow the hell down in the middle of a snowstorm when other people can barely even see the road or what's ahead of them... true story.

Finally, idiots and idiotic behavior annoy me. Interpret that how you will.

I'm sure there are more, but it wouldn't do well to write all night.

I was waaay worse - I thought I'd learn the saxophone as a kid. The noise was so unbearable even I couldn't cope with it (although I did play the euphonium for a few years before that, bless my neighbours). As a side note, does Guitar Hero and the likes bring about the same problems?

And @Colonel Martyr: I agree with the Grammar Nazis. If you can understand what someone means then it's all good; and if I'm on a forum like this I assume that I'm not the centre of the universe and that English may not be their first language (which I've found is often the case). The only time I've questioned it was when I genuinely couldn't make out what someone was saying (English as second language) and when I thought someone had accidentally used the wrong word ("herpes" instead of "harpies". easily done when you think about it).

No, but then again, I haven't lived around anyone who plays Guitar Hero or any other musical game.

Have you ever studied linguistics? If not, you seem to have an intuitive grasp of the nature of natural language (something grammar and dictionary Nazis rarely do). Language usage is derived from utility, not from some authority granted to the rules of grammar. Linguists observe language descriptively, noting how it is used in the real world. Grammar Nazis try to observe it prescriptively, dictating how it must be used, but that's not how natural language works. Prescriptive grammars are useful only to the extent that they facilitate communication.

Even the Académie fran?aise is ignored completely by most French speakers, including those in the French government itself.

For every grammar Nazi sneering at people for breaking their imagined "rules", there is a linguist laughing behind their back.

I always seem to go back to this one every time the pet peeve subject comes up, but it's the only one I really have:

Idiots who drive through the neighborhood with the BASS turned up so loud that everybody's windows rattle.

All my other pet peeves are contained in a banned subject that starts with "P".

People who can't stand to saw a few basic greetings and gestures and answer a single question from me when I'm at work. I work as a cashier in a supermarket and on average I serve 300 people a day, and I greet every single one a good day, ask them if they would like a bag, ask them if they got all they needed, I thank them twice (once when handling the money and again when they leave) and I bid every single one a good day. Some very basic and rudimentary manners yet there are those who I come across who can hardly bother to even open their mouths. Some just turn their back at me, take a bag from the next counter (which they are not supposed to do, we keep them at the cashiers so that they can hand the customers their bags) and make grunting noises. In particular I find it rude to take a bag from the next counter. When someone offers you something with a smile you don't take it yourself from somewhere else and then take a deep sigh at the durability of the item when you find out you accidentally ripped it by lazily sliding it over the metal that they hang on.

Yes this is trivial but that's why it's called a "pet peeve", now if you wish to get into what really grinds my gears...

Nagging complainers, and this forum have a great deal of them

Not to say that their complaints are without merit though, but that doesn't justify making several posts about it every single day for [bleep] knows how long.

Pretty much anytime I hear someone saying something that factually wrong. I just want to smack them in the face with a baseball bat.

And when my cat won't shut up. That's annoying.

That's all I got right now.

People eating loudly. If I can hear you chewing, I want to stab you in the temple with my fork. Same with people who "inhale" liquids. Like drinks or soup. YOU DON'T NEED TO BREATHE THE LIQUID IN. JUST POUR IT INTO YOUR MOUTH, OR USE THE SPOON TO PUT IT IN YOUR MOUTH. DON'T svck IT OFF THE EDGE OF THE SPOON.

pormography?

OH! My number one pet-peeve is unfunny people. Not just like nuns or bankers, but like people who think they are funny. They just keep telling really awful jokes and/or stories, and their delivery is horrid, and they say internet memes in real life.

I have to cover my ears when they open their mouths.

Hey!

You got the first two letters right...you clever one, you.