The Pet-Peeves thread

[The Feral Underclass]

So I was sat on the bus coming home today and it was fairly full so I had to take a seat next to this young guy. As I sat down the smell of sweaty arses, and I mean that acrid-between-the buttocks-stink combined with what I could only describe as sour milk, emanated like a nightmare into nostrils. It was foul...

It got me thinking of pet-peeves and how unreasonable some of mine are, and actually I'm quite embarrassed about them...

One of mine -- and this is gonna sound craz -- is that I really have a problem with liquids being served in receptacles that don't correspond with the liquid...I know, it's ridiculous, but wine served in a mug is a big no-no for me...Tea in a glass...What even is that?

Another one, which I think is probably more reasonable is when people split bills and you've had like a glass of water and a starter...It's rude and inconsiderate and I won't stand for it!

So I guess my pet-peeves, reasonable or not, are:

- Antisocial cleanliness
- Inappropriate usage of receptacles
- Bill splitting

[Redistribute the Rep]

Hmm, let's see...

-Children
-the color yellow
-doctors
-trying on clothes in the store
-people who are smarter than me
-people who are dumber than me
-socks with sandals
-spam bots
-people talking about sports
-drop shoulder shirts
-TV shows about cakes
-the fact that there's more than one TV show about cakes
-country music
-the hunger games
-instagram
-well really any social media for that matter
-when people come in a room with the door closed, and then they don't close it on the way out
-when I ask them to close it and they leave a little sliver of it open
-inappropriate usage of the word literally
-public proposals
-when my rep to post ratio falls below 2
-people taking pictures with their iPads
-deliberately ripped jeans
-those small slivers of soap that are impossible to use
-the sound of heels clicking on the floor
-my dog
-traveling
-when I'm driving and it's really crowded with a bunch of cars and someone honks but nobody knows who honked and what they were trying to honk at
-when people use the word "whom" inappropriately
-user 870
- people saying "I could care less"
-weddings
-getting my picture taken
-loud breathing
-loud chewing
-someone getting out their phone and texting while I'm talking to them
-prolonged eye contact
-people blaming their teacher for their own failure
-when people sit next to me when there's other seats available
-being the first one to class
-when someone tells me what to do but I was already going to do it, now I can't do it or they'll think I listened to them
-overuse of the word "like"
-excessive laughter
-the fact that I have to come up with a subject for all the messages I send
-people calling a government organization "the fed"
-constant sniffling
-unnecessary abbreviations
-people accidentally spitting on me
-superfluous zippers
-Ariana Grande
-in winter when it gets dark at 5
-people who don't laugh at my jokes and it gets awkward
-reality TV
-when people throw stuff in the trash like they're playing basketball
-purposely misspelled brand/product names
-chip bags filled mostly with air
-how my DVR always records 5 minutes of the previous show
-nonsensical music videos
-abstract art that could be made by 7 year olds
-when there's someone we all know should be banned but it takes the mods forever to ban them
-trying to get the shower temperature just right
-emojis
-when I'm typing on my phone and I accidentally click on the world button that switches my keyboard to Cyrillic
-seat belts that feel like they're choking me
-unsatisfactory google searches
-how indifferent cats are
-people driving close behind me
-people ringing the doorbell when I don't want to answer so I have to hide away from the windows so they don't see that I'm home
-flies buzzing right by my ears
-people walking too slow
-PDAs
-"it's funny because it's true." huh?
-when people end their question with a period
-when I come up with a great idea and then I google it and a million other people have already thought of it
-YouTube advertisements
-getting a tic tac lodged in the opening of the container
-mismatched socks
-revolving doors
-wobbly tables
-the sun hitting the TV
-people crying in the movie theatre during movies
-the fact that Christmas shopping starts in November now
-getting an egg shell in the eggs
-when I lose a bottle lid
-biting the inside of my mouth
-not being able to read my own hand writing
-having to spell my name for other people when it's probably one of the easiest names to spell
-caught zippers
-struggling to rip open things with perforations
-when I'm looking near somebody and I fear they think I'm staring at them
-running out of things to do on the Internet
-getting into bed to sleep and then realizing I left my contacts in
-massive headphones that I don't want to be seen with in public
-people who have 5 Apple devices that are all virtually the same
-people who are bad with computers
-vacillating 'estimated time remaining'
-surprisingly powerful sink that splashes everywhere when I turn it on
-the stigma that comes with reading a popular book
-getting my nails caught on things
-over packaging of children's toys
-sharing an elevator
-my parents being right
-Sea's new avatar
-tripping over nothing
-the World Cup
-when I do something right but forget how I did it
-overused jokes
-missing remote
-lack of Internet access
-when people finish with the weight lifting machine and they just let the weight drop and make a loud noise
-getting sucked into the YouTube comments section
-when my mom corrects my mannerisms in front of other people
-inappropriate condiments
-hearing people talk about their diets
-being asked if I'm on a diet just because I'm eating a vegetable
-awkwardly large books
-forgetting to record a show that there's never reruns of
-my parents making me go to church even though I'm an atheist
-uncomfortable dress shoes
-other people's luck
-indoor sunglasses
-get to the last box of sudoku and then see that I made a mistake
-my pathetic app sales
-book covers that slide off
-usage of the word "gate" to describe a controversial incident
-when I can hear people's music from their headphones
-trying to drink the daily recommended amount of water
-getting my tongue burnt by too hot food
-trying to remember a song I forgot
-people grunting at the gym
-vending machine that won't take any of my dollars
-squeeky doors
-alarm clocks
-everybody always asking about my brother and only know me in relation to him
-junk mail
-the fact that all forms alcohol tastes the same to me
-seeing myself on video
-selfies
-overreactions
-unsolicited comments about my appearance
-paper cuts
-losing hair
-traffic
-stubbing my toe
-people who ask way too many questions
-going into a room and forgetting why I went there
-misuse of the word irony
-sand getting in uncomfortable places
-people who say "true dat"
-how long it takes the Sims 2 to load up
-leaving something in my pocket when it goes through the wash
-hand dryers not staying on long enough for me to dry my hands
-youtube "pranks" that are really people just being an ass
-listening to people chew gum
-the fact that that family feud guy now has his own show
-celebrities I've never heard of
-people complaining that the news doesn't cover something when in most cases it already did
-the amount of verb tenses there are in French
-needing to pee during hide and seek
-wanting to eat after brushing teeth
-forgetting where I parked the car in the multi story airport parking garage
-when I see that there's a movie I like on the TV guide , but then I click on it and it says I have to pay for it
-reluctance to open a paperback book so as not to crease it
-how Google keeps developing technologies that have no relation to each other
-getting caught talking to myself
-dropping something on the floor and contemplating whether it's okay to eat
-being told I drink too much diet coke
-music from the 90s
-forgetting the code to open my garage
-the smell of wet towels
-British accents
-the devaluation of the word theory
-when people say they have OCD about something when they obviously don't
-people's obsession with the Great Gatsby
-people getting idioms wrong
-when people pronounce СССР like its not in Cyrillic

[motion denied]

HAHAHAHA holy shit, TFAE


-when people throw stuff in the trash like they're playing basketball

Offended. Deeply, offended.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

Not all of us can afford a porcelain tea set you patrician.

I could pretty much list everything, but people who talk about how great families are, how your family definitely loves you, how you should love your family, etc. etc. are pretty high on the list.

Also idiots who get angry at waiters for not magically conjuring their food in five minutes on a busy day.

And people who write code without comments deserve the death penalty.

[Tim Cornelis]

I have misophonia. So any sound or physical action/position that is (usually) repetitive appears to be unnecessary (or unnecessarily loud).

Terrible grammar. Its/it's is more often used wrongly than not.

[Sinister Intents]

A lot of things Russian Red (The Fundamental Attribution Error) has stated

My psychological problems

Abusive people

[consuming negativity]

HAHAHAHA holy shit, TFAE

+1

I feel like I can't contribute to the thread now because TFAE won it.

Still, I will say that those people who stand in fucking doorways and hallways and aisles and get in the fucking way and take forever getting out of it are inconsiderate pricks.

Other than that I agree with a lot that was already posted. Stinky people, biting my mouth, and mouth-roof pizza burns are all incredibly annoying.

[Lily Briscoe]

The word "folks".

Hard workers. Especially the kind that show up to work twenty minutes early everyday and on the rare occasion that they're only running five minutes early, they call the boss ahead of time to say they're going to be late.. I seriously iyfctrrsrjhkjiu

People who never take risks/let go/who always do everything in moderation. Kinda related: people who are obsessed with structure/planning everything out beforehand and can never just be spontaneous.

Spinelessness.

New age spirituality/yuppie Buddhists.

The sort of stuffy middle-aged women with boring lives and miserable marriages who make it their mission to know all the details of, and constantly talk shit about, everyone else's sexual behavior and relationships.

[Lily Briscoe]

I could continue, but this is making me feel like a very bitter person lol

[Creative Destruction]

anything having to do with the morning. except maybe for breakfast foods
folks being proud of a shitty food culture
brisket smoked for any less than 12 hours
smoking meats with fruit woods
cilantro
folks putting cast iron skillets in the washer or putting soap on skillets every time they wash them
incredibly complex recipes where most of the ingredients would not show in flavor or texture

[Illegalitarian]

Waking up early (anytime before 8am is fucking hell and I hate it)

People who use the word guesstimate

Youtube comments

[Crabbensmasher]

I hate when your waiting at a bus stop with a bunch of people and none of them are acknowledging eachother - they just stare up the road at where the bus is about to come. Like, guys, the bus is going to stop anyway. Its like, the act of standing there is so fucking awkward for everyone apparently, they just look up the road and pretend nobody else exists.

Sometimes I get so pissed I literally stand in front of everyone and look in the opposite direction (at them). Then we make eye contact and they immediately look very flustered and turn to their phones.

Social customs are fucking aggravating. Yet we cling to them like little drowning marmots.

[Illegalitarian]

I can't believe no one has said this one yet: People who unironically use the term "social justice warrior"

[Lily Briscoe]

anything having to do with the morning. except maybe for breakfast foods
folks being proud of a shitty food culture
brisket smoked for any less than 12 hours
smoking meats with fruit woods
cilantro
folks putting cast iron skillets in the washer or putting soap on skillets every time they wash them
incredibly complex recipes where most of the ingredients would not show in flavor or textureIt doesn't actually work when you do it intentionally to try to bother me though.

[BIXX]

It doesn't actually work when you do it intentionally to try to bother me though.
I'm not sure that's what rednoise was trying to do, they lice in the same area as me maybe they do it for the same reason I do.

[The Feral Underclass]

Hmm, let's see...

-Children
-the color yellow
-doctors
-trying on clothes in the store
-people who are smarter than me
-people who are dumber than me
-socks with sandals
-spam bots
-people talking about sports
-drop shoulder shirts
-TV shows about cakes
-the fact that there's more than one TV show about cakes
-country music
-the hunger games
-instagram
-well really any social media for that matter
-when people come in a room with the door closed, and then they don't close it on the way out
-when I ask them to close it and they leave a little sliver of it open
-inappropriate usage of the word literally
-public proposals
-when my rep to post ratio falls below 2
-people taking pictures with their iPads
-deliberately ripped jeans
-those small slivers of soap that are impossible to use
-the sound of heels clicking on the floor
-my dog
-traveling
-when I'm driving and it's really crowded with a bunch of cars and someone honks but nobody knows who honked and what they were trying to honk at
-when people use the word "whom" inappropriately
-user 870
- people saying "I could care less"
-weddings
-getting my picture taken
-loud breathing
-loud chewing
-someone getting out their phone and texting while I'm talking to them
-prolonged eye contact
-people blaming their teacher for their own failure
-when people sit next to me when there's other seats available
-being the first one to class
-when someone tells me what to do but I was already going to do it, now I can't do it or they'll think I listened to them
-overuse of the word "like"
-excessive laughter
-the fact that I have to come up with a subject for all the messages I send
-people calling a government organization "the fed"
-constant sniffling
-unnecessary abbreviations
-people accidentally spitting on me
-superfluous zippers
-Ariana Grande
-in winter when it gets dark at 5
-people who don't laugh at my jokes and it gets awkward
-reality TV
-when people throw stuff in the trash like they're playing basketball
-purposely misspelled brand/product names
-chip bags filled mostly with air
-how my DVR always records 5 minutes of the previous show
-nonsensical music videos
-abstract art that could be made by 7 year olds
-when there's someone we all know should be banned but it takes the mods forever to ban them
-trying to get the shower temperature just right
-emojis
-when I'm typing on my phone and I accidentally click on the world button that switches my keyboard to Cyrillic
-seat belts that feel like they're choking me
-unsatisfactory google searches
-how indifferent cats are
-people driving close behind me
-people ringing the doorbell when I don't want to answer so I have to hide away from the windows so they don't see that I'm home
-flies buzzing right by my ears
-people walking too slow
-PDAs
-"it's funny because it's true." huh?
-when people end their question with a period
-when I come up with a great idea and then I google it and a million other people have already thought of it
-YouTube advertisements
-getting a tic tac lodged in the opening of the container
-mismatched socks
-revolving doors
-wobbly tables
-the sun hitting the TV
-people crying in the movie theatre during movies
-the fact that Christmas shopping starts in November now
-getting an egg shell in the eggs
-when I lose a bottle lid
-biting the inside of my mouth
-not being able to read my own hand writing
-having to spell my name for other people when it's probably one of the easiest names to spell
-caught zippers
-struggling to rip open things with perforations
-when I'm looking near somebody and I fear they think I'm staring at them
-running out of things to do on the Internet
-getting into bed to sleep and then realizing I left my contacts in
-massive headphones that I don't want to be seen with in public
-people who have 5 Apple devices that are all virtually the same
-people who are bad with computers
-vacillating 'estimated time remaining'
-surprisingly powerful sink that splashes everywhere when I turn it on
-the stigma that comes with reading a popular book
-getting my nails caught on things
-over packaging of children's toys
-sharing an elevator
-my parents being right
-Sea's new avatar
-tripping over nothing
-the World Cup
-when I do something right but forget how I did it
-overused jokes
-missing remote
-lack of Internet access
-when people finish with the weight lifting machine and they just let the weight drop and make a loud noise
-getting sucked into the YouTube comments section
-when my mom corrects my mannerisms in front of other people
-inappropriate condiments
-hearing people talk about their diets
-being asked if I'm on a diet just because I'm eating a vegetable
-awkwardly large books
-forgetting to record a show that there's never reruns of
-my parents making me go to church even though I'm an atheist
-uncomfortable dress shoes
-other people's luck
-indoor sunglasses
-get to the last box of sudoku and then see that I made a mistake
-my pathetic app sales
-book covers that slide off
-usage of the word "gate" to describe a controversial incident
-when I can hear people's music from their headphones
-trying to drink the daily recommended amount of water
-getting my tongue burnt by too hot food
-trying to remember a song I forgot
-people grunting at the gym
-vending machine that won't take any of my dollars
-squeeky doors
-alarm clocks
-everybody always asking about my brother and only know me in relation to him
-junk mail
-the fact that all forms alcohol tastes the same to me
-seeing myself on video
-selfies
-overreactions
-unsolicited comments about my appearance
-paper cuts
-losing hair
-traffic
-stubbing my toe
-people who ask way too many questions
-going into a room and forgetting why I went there
-misuse of the word irony
-sand getting in uncomfortable places
-people who say "true dat"
-how long it takes the Sims 2 to load up
-leaving something in my pocket when it goes through the wash
-hand dryers not staying on long enough for me to dry my hands
-toe stubbing
-listening to people chew gum
-the fact that that family feud guy now has his own show
-celebrities I've never heard of
-people complaining that the news doesn't cover something when in most cases it already did
-the amount of verb tenses there are in French
-needing to pee during hide and seek
-wanting to eat after brushing teeth
-forgetting where I parked the car in the multi story airport parking garage
-when I see that there's a movie I like on the TV guide , but then I click on it and it says I have to pay for it
-reluctance to open a paperback book so as not to crease it
-how Google keeps developing technologies that have no relation to each other
-getting caught talking to myself
-dropping something on the floor and contemplating whether it's okay to eat
-being told I drink too much diet coke
-music from the 90s
-forgetting the code to open my garage
-the smell of wet towels
-British accents
-the devaluation of the word theory
-when people say they have OCD about something when they obviously don't
-people's obsession with the Great Gatsby

How do you even get up in the morning?

[The Feral Underclass]

Terrible grammar. Its/it's is more often used wrongly than not.

I spent a lot of my life correcting people's grammar and so I think I'm kinda use to it, but the one thing that just gets me every time is the misuse of a semi-colon...Like, if you don't know what it does, don't fucking use it!

[Bala Perdida]

I could pretty much list everything, but people who talk about how great families are, how your family definitely loves you, how you should love your family, etc. etc. are pretty high on the list.

Also idiots who get angry at waiters for not magically conjuring their food in five minutes on a busy day.
My family is definitely one of mine. Far and wide, aunts and cousins and shit included.
Having worked in food service and retail, I hate customers overall. Even if they don't bother me with demands, their presence makes me uneasy.
I hate the music on the radio most of the time.
I hate the laws in the US. Literally everything is super illegal. And you can't even bribe the cops.
I hate it when people don't put stuff back in a store.
I hate it when guys leave the toilet seat up, and I'm a guy.
Also I hate handling money. I always feel like I have a variance.

[Creative Destruction]

not being able to annoy strix on demand

[Creative Destruction]

I hate it when guys leave the toilet seat up, and I'm a guy.

yeah. and, for christ's sake, when you piss on the seat or the rim, clean it up, you shitty adult two year olds.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

I hate it when guys leave the toilet seat up, and I'm a guy.

Which reminds me, public bathrooms for men. Dormitory bathrooms for men as well. It's like someone stuffed an obese, sweaty, dysenteric pig into a small cubicle.

Then, the pig exploded.

Also, people with self-diagnosed illnesses and disorders, particularly the "I don't like talking to people that must mean I have assburgers" crowd and everyone going apeshit over gluten even though a minority of the population can't stomach the stuff.

[The Feral Underclass]

yeah. and, for christ's sake, when you piss on the seat or the rim, clean it up, you shitty adult two year olds.

Also people who don't clean the toilets after they've taken a dump. That baffles me even more...

[The Intransigent Faction]

I can't believe no one has said this one yet: People who unironically use the term "social justice warrior"

I may have found a new username!

[Lily Briscoe]

I don't know how I didn't think of this when I made my previous post, but my single biggest pet peeve is definitely, definitely people who expect you to be constantly smiling for no particular reason, and - despite knowing absolutely nothing about you or what's going on in your life - see fit to comment disapprovingly about the fact that you aren't walking around grinning from ear to ear.

I've been told this is mostly an American thing though?

[Bala Perdida]

Also people who don't clean the toilets after they've taken a dump. That baffles me even more...
They don't leave the turd floating there at home, why the fuck do they do it elsewhere?
I also hate closing one day, then opening at fucking 6am the next day.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

They don't leave the turd floating there at home, why the fuck do they do it elsewhere?

Some of them... some of them do.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.

[The Intransigent Faction]

Okay, so like many other people have said, TFAE already won the thread, and I would piggyback on the majority of his list. Nonetheless:

-Another thing about YouTube: Those videos I've complained about before in which some douche who uploads an awesome song or TV/movie clip feels the need to add a personalized "credits" containing something resembling "Video Made by Blahblah123".

-Anything and everything which is a trigger for my OCD compulsions. This includes various noises already complained about.
-The fact that there's a basketball court almost right outside my window at which the Weekly Summer Meetings of the Obnoxious Assholes Club apparently convene. Yelling and screaming and that damned basketball sound every night until between 2:00 to 3:00 a.m., which is usually the only time during summers when it's otherwise quiet enough at home for me to concentrate properly on something.

-Consistently overly-happy people. I distrust those people. Either they're a bit too sheltered and they're fucking ignorant of all the suffering in the world around them, or they just don't give a damn. Maybe it's because of some of the people who worked one-on-one with me as a kid. You know, the insincerely cheery type who smiles and says "That's great!" if given the slightest excuse.

-The word "several" when used to describe a number of things of which there are not seven. It's just strange.

-When I can't think of a response to somebody.
-When I can think of a response, hours later when it would be too awkward or too late.
-When I go with a knee-jerk response just to say something and almost immediately go "Wait, I shouldn't have said that".
-When memory flashes of past conversations (I mean from years or months ago) pop into my head randomly.

-When people make certain aforementioned noises that piss me (and apparently many of you) off, and are incredibly offended when I reach a boiling point and just ask them or gently hint at them to stop.

-When my internet connection suddenly breaks for a couple of minutes at random intervals in my room, which is probably farthest from the router.

-When people, in any context at any time, use the term "hipster".

-Jason Kenney ("Citizenship and Immigration Minister" turned "Employment Minister" of the Federal government of Canada). Even more so than the Prime Minister, he seems to find a new way to be a reactionary prick every week and gets more and more cartoonishly evil until at this point he thinks Canada should 'save money' by denying insulin to refugees.

-Those moments when I'm expected to feign interest in sports in order to avoid awkward silence.
-A large percentage of MMORPG players.
-Facebook.
-Twitter (more than Facebook, by far).
-When people say they will keep in touch, and don't. If you aren't going to bother, tell me that. I'll be fine.

Okay I'll stop there...for now.

[DOOM]

The "my father is a doctor" kind of people at my school
soccer moms
And that one classmate who's constantly rebelling against teachers

[synthesis]

-The word "several" when used to describe a number of things of which there are not seven. It's just strange.

What? That's not where the word comes from.

(I'm pretty sure it would also be redundant because AFAIK there is no instance in which you'd say several but where you could not also say seven.)

[consuming negativity]

I don't know how I didn't think of this when I made my previous post, but my single biggest pet peeve is definitely, definitely people who expect you to be constantly smiling for no particular reason, and - despite knowing absolutely nothing about you or what's going on in your life - see fit to comment disapprovingly about the fact that you aren't walking around grinning from ear to ear.

I've been told this is mostly an American thing though?

also a sexist thing if the situations you're describing are what i'm thinking of

[The Feral Underclass]

The dictionary.com definition of several is "being more than two but fewer than many in number or kind" lol

[BIXX]

The dictionary.com definition of several is "being more than two but fewer than many in number or kind" lol
What the fuck

Many:
constituting*or*forming*a*large*number; numerous

Wat

[synthesis]

The dictionary.com definition of several is "being more than two but fewer than many in number or kind" lol

I was going for etymology, really. I thought that there might be an urban legend about several deriving from seven but that doesn't seem to be the case. (Several is from the same root as "sever," as in separate.)

[The Feral Underclass]

I was going for etymology, really. I thought that there might be an urban legend about several deriving from seven but that doesn't seem to be the case. (Several is from the same root as "sever," as in separate.)

Sure, I just found the definition funny.

[The Intransigent Faction]

I was going for etymology, really. I thought that there might be an urban legend about several deriving from seven but that doesn't seem to be the case. (Several is from the same root as "sever," as in separate.)

Oh I'm aware of that, but that doesn't stop me from thinking "seven" when I hear "several". I don't see what makes it a better choice than "many". As I said, it's just a strange word. As for redundancy, well honestly you could make a case for redundancy for so many words, but until and unless Newspeak is more widely used, language will stay that way!

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

Oh I'm aware of that, but that doesn't stop me from thinking "seven" when I hear "several". I don't see what makes it a better choice than "many". As I said, it's just a strange word. As for redundancy, well honestly you could make a case for redundancy for so many words, but until and unless Newspeak is more widely used, language will stay that way!

"Many" implies that the number of counted objects is large in some sense, whereas "several" does not. There have been several "(Knights of the) Old Republic" games and many (really many) semi-official Star Wars works.

[synthesis]

^ Yeah, it's relative, which is also why the dictionary definition strikes some as weird. An item -> A couple items -> Several items -> Many items. A couple, several and many are all defined in relation to one another. Like "seldom" versus "often".

[Halert]

And people who write code without comments deserve the death penalty.
:blackA: Fuck you man, i will never write comments. :blackA:

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

:blackA: Fuck you man, i will never write comments. :blackA:

You're why we never get nice things.

It's because everyone is stuck on their computers trying to figure out what the guy before them meant.

[Halert]

Most code can easily be understood without comments as long as you use good names.
writting a comment here and there can be nice if the code is very compicated but writting a lot of comments is a waste of time.

[Os Cangaceiros]

I hate when I say that I'm interested in history (which is my major, ironically since I despise academia) and people say "but history is written by the victor, isn't it?" They always make that comment like they're making some sort of profound statement rather than thoughtlessly barfing up some slogan they heard somewhere with absolutely no critical thought involved or actual knowledge about the subject of history (or how actual historians write/study the past).

[Ethics Gradient, Traitor For All Ages]

The problem is that 99% of the time the people not using comments are normally the ones writing the ugliest shit that requires it the most. They don't avoid comments out of some belief in the superiority of their coding, they avoid it because they're fucking lazy and their coding reflects it.

Both of the developers I deal with on a daily basis refuse to use comments. One is skilled and his code is self explanatory, the other produces shit out of "intro to computer science 101" or something. He fucking strings code from 3 or 4 different projects off internet forums together and expects me to figure it out, because he of course barely understands how it works himself. I could complain about that dude for days, you all better watch out

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

Most code can easily be understood without comments as long as you use good names.
writting a comment here and there can be nice if the code is very compicated but writting a lot of comments is a waste of time.

Not really.

I work with codes for neutron and electron capture, most of which are handed down from mentor to student, with each bastard introducing some minor correction in a completely non-organic way, resulting in massive I-want-to-believe-it-works kludge.

With no comments, I often can't tell what a given block of code is supposed to be doing.

[Ethics Gradient, Traitor For All Ages]

Ooh I know, I'll put the connection string at the very bottom squeezed in amongst 30 or 40 lines of random trash that's not intended to ever be used anyhow, why did I leave it in there? Who knows! No I don't have time to answer a question im off to create my next masterpiece

[The Intransigent Faction]

"Many" implies that the number of counted objects is large in some sense, whereas "several" does not. There have been several "(Knights of the) Old Republic" games and many (really many) semi-official Star Wars works.

Ah, okay, thanks for clearing that up. That's an interesting example (edit: even though it's technically wrong by the definition TFU cited ["being more than two but fewer than many in number or kind"] ;)).

[Zukunftsmusik]

Electronical gadgets etc. that doesn't work (properly).


I've been told this is mostly an American thing though?

I can't really confirm that, but here at least, if you're not walking head down and staring stiffly out in mid-air looking annoyed, you're a fucking weirdo.

[Lily Briscoe]

Lucky bastard!

[Os Cangaceiros]

Smiling for no apparent reason is not considered normal in Russia either

[Slavic]

Not really a pet peeve but this dude on the highway during my rush hour commute was driving with his interior lights on while reading a novel.

[Bala Perdida]

Fucking a, I know non-political is not the place for this but it's hard to ignore.
People who keep using 'leftist' alone to refer to communists and beyond. The majority of leftists are near social democrat, they hate us so much!

[∞]

youtube comments

bronies

small dogs

people who scrape the fork with their teeth

people who press the walking man button on the crosswalk too many times

people with too many pet peeves

[Ethics Gradient, Traitor For All Ages]

People being habitually late, and people who accelerate really slowly from red lights are the only two that really drive me nuts.

[BIXX]

youtube comments

bronies

small dogs

people who scrape the fork with their teeth

people who press the walking man sign on the crosswalk too many times

people with too many pet peeves

I have a small dog. She is super gross and humps things then falls over whilst humping her pig toy.

Fuck bronies. They act like its a sexual orientation and compare it to bring gay. Fuck you, its a fetish, grow the fuck up.

"people who scrape the fork with their teeth" can't agree more. Any silverware involved scraping noises make my teeth hurt.

[Lily Briscoe]

People being habitually late
Ableism, plz ban

[Ethics Gradient, Traitor For All Ages]

I don't get that reference :-\

[Lily Briscoe]

It wasn't a reference.

--
Anyway, another one of my pet peeves is: Mormons (is that actually a pet peeve or am I stepping into religious bigotry territory). Especially the children.

[Ethics Gradient, Traitor For All Ages]

I had a Mormon friend in high school, his parents were (I think) awful Mormons though and were cool with us smoking at their house so it became a place to hangout before anyone had a car. Apparently Mormon youth are required to perform some amount of labor for other members of the community. So this dude would have random Mormon kids cleaning his gutters and mowing his lawn and shit while his own kids just got stoned and watched, it was really weird. He had this one pair of kids install a sliding glass door while I was there one time on a weekend, it took almost the entire day.

[BIXX]

I had a Mormon friend in high school, his parents were (I think) awful Mormons though and were cool with us smoking at their house so it became a place to hangout before anyone had a car. Apparently Mormon youth are required to perform some amount of labor for other members of the community. So this dude would have random Mormon kids cleaning his gutters and mowing his lawn and shit while his own kids just got stoned and watched, it was really weird. He had this one pair of kids install a sliding glass door while I was there one time on a weekend, it took almost the entire day.
>become Mormon
>mooch off of the mormon kids' labor
>I fail to see why socialism wouldnt work if Mormonism works

[Lily Briscoe]

I've never met a bad Mormon

[BIXX]

I've never met a bad Mormon
You mean bad as in asshole or bad as in doesn't follow the rules very well?

[Slavic]

People being habitually late, and people who accelerate really slowly from red lights are the only two that really drive me nuts.

We are not habitually late, we just start our work day 20mins later than you.

[Lily Briscoe]

bad as in doesn't follow the rules very well?

.

[Ethics Gradient, Traitor For All Ages]

Oh I would never be irritated by someone showing up to work late. Im talking about friends of mine who are never where they say they will be at an agreed time, even when I let them set the time. One of my friends is never less than an hour late, its ridiculous. She says meet at 7, I assume she means 8:15 or so

[Slavic]

Oh I would never be irritated by someone showing up to work late. Im talking about friends of mine who are never where they say they will be at an agreed time, even when I let them set the time. One of my friends is never less than an hour late, its ridiculous. She says meet at 7, I assume she means 8:15 or so


Im like that as well. Thats why i always give an hour window if I'm making plans; actually I never make plans.

I usually just say I'll be over when ever and then I'll just show up.

[consuming negativity]

i dated a mormon as a teenager

she kept trying to convert me :unsure:

[Mass Grave Aesthetics]

-Icelandic politics
-discourse on the "national character" of Icelanders
-Iceland in general
-Christmass
-Björk fans
-work ethic moralism
-NSBM
-Morrisey

[Slavic]

What the hell is Icelandic "national character"?

Being cold white people?

[consuming negativity]

i hope it has something to do with liking björk because visiting iceland might be cool

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

Fuck bronies. They act like its a sexual orientation and compare it to bring gay. Fuck you, its a fetish, grow the fuck up.

The only reason bronies are still around is because they wind people up like this. I'm fairly certain most of them do not have the fetish. Anyway, yeah, people can watch/like/jerk off to whatever they like, but discussions about bronies keep finding their way into everything, and at this point the only options are:

(1) collectively ignoring the bronies;
(2) Exterminatus.

[Mass Grave Aesthetics]

What the hell is Icelandic "national character"?

Being cold white people?
I guess so. It really depends if you prefer myth, caricature or reality. Being obsessed with one's "national character" is the biggest and most constant part of it though.



i hope it has something to do with liking björk because visiting iceland might be cool

You'd find yourself at home in certain social circles and scenes here. It's a nice place to visit I guess but be sure to have some money to spend cause it's quite expensive.

[The Intransigent Faction]

What in the hell are "bronies"? Is that some stupid new adolescent stereotype?

[The Feral Underclass]

What in the hell are "bronies"? Is that some stupid new adolescent stereotype?

Men (bros) who are massive nerds for My Little Pony

http://www.returnofkings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/bronies2.jpg

[consuming negativity]

What in the hell are "bronies"? Is that some stupid new adolescent stereotype?
grown men who watch my little pony and spend their free time making pony anime porn and intimidating little girls who like the show

[The Feral Underclass]

Did anyone hear about the My Little Pony cum jars? Some bronies basically put their pony figurines in jars and then collected their semen in them...I don't know why. The reason I know this is because Buzzfeed ran an article about one of these guys who accidentally boiled his figurine in his jar of cum by leaving it on top of a very hot radiator by accident.

There are pictures.

[motion denied]

fucking gross
fucking creepy

ugh

[PhoenixAsh]

wait..what?

Why did I read this thread? :crying:

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

"Brony" was originally one of those irritating portmanteus (bromanteu?), used to refer to men older than the target age for Western cartoons who watched My Little Pony Friendship is Magic. So far so standard, because although I could never see the appeal in a show driven by some pretty dodgy merchandise (My Little Pony figures being a sort of glossy lump of hard plastic with a neck joint that looks like the horses' throats had been slit), the show's director, L. Faust, also directed and wrote for Powerpuff Girls, which many of the people who are in their twenties now watched when they were growing up.

Then there was the obsessive and weird fringe, which to be honest is a feature of anything on the Internet. I mean I'm pretty sure that if I try hard enough I'm going to find erotic Battlefleet Gothic fanfiction. (I will not do this, however, for the Emperor protects but some things can not be unseen.) Some of them tried to build some kind of identity out of it, but whatever, that's what people do on the Internet.

But what really made "brony" such a widespread term were the trolls, people who would comment on something that had no connection to My Little Pony Love is Fascism with a pony avatar and something obviously provocative. This, in turn, caused a backlash, which partly also consisted of trolls, to the extent that comment thread upon comment thread was being buried by this sort of rubbish. Then, of course, some of the genuine weirdoes came out, misinterpreting the trolling as widespread (sub)cultural support for whatever they do, whether it's writing MLP erotic fanfiction or what TFU described above. This predictably caused further backlash and so on and so on.

That's how I remember the chronology of events anyway.

[The Feral Underclass]

They actually called it The Pony Cum Jar Project...

[PhoenixAsh]

erotic Battlefleet Gothic fanfiction.

copy, paste, google, images


And yes. Yes. It turns out there is.

[PhoenixAsh]

They actually called it The Pony Cum Jar Project...

But why? :confused::confused:

[Sinister Intents]

The word cum...

[BIXX]

Did anyone hear about the My Little Pony cum jars? Some bronies basically put their pony figurines in jars and then collected their semen in them...I don't know why. The reason I know this is because Buzzfeed ran an article about one of these guys who accidentally boiled his figurine in his jar of cum by leaving it on top of a very hot radiator by accident.

There are pictures.
Hahaha I saw that.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

copy, paste, google, images


And yes. Yes. It turns out there is.

Well so much for "the prow is armoured because the stern should never face the enemy".

Also I need to wipe that information from my brain somehow.


But why? :confused::confused:

Some of them probably are turned on by that. Hell, you know humans have a capacity to be turned on by anything, and that a lot of men in particular, even straight ones, have a thing for their own seminal fluid. On the other hand, I would guess most of these people are just trying to get a rise out of other people for kicks.

[Redistribute the Rep]

Y'all are a bunch of bourgeois moralists

[The Intransigent Faction]

Also I need to wipe that information from my brain somehow.

http://qz.com/279326/scientists-are-a-step-closer-to-creating-the-memory-eraser-from-men-in-black/

Sure, there's massive potential for abuse of this technology to the point of a dystopian-nighmare-turned-reality, but I don't care. This cannot be made fast enough.


The word cum...

Meh. While I admit that some neologisms and redefinitions of words now with sexual meanings are kind of strange, it would seem so awkward at this point if people started using the technical medical terms for everything sexual. Heh.

[The Feral Underclass]

She has stopped now thanks to protests from my sister and I, but my mother would routinely abbreviate the word "come" to "cum" in her text messages. "R u gonna cum tonite?" -- NONE OF YOUR GOD DAMN BUSINESS, MOTHER!

[Palmares]

Honestly, maybe it's residual political correctness of mine, but I never text the word "cum". I know it saves a letter in a text, but I'd rather sacrifice any other possible letter so that I need not unnecessarily sexualise a text message.

It's funny though, most of my friends find my text shorthand confusing (one friend described me as "Beyonce"), but since being back on revleft, have found myself confused by some of the internet vernacular used here... I feel old... :lol:

[The Feral Underclass]

What about "bae" or "turnt"?

Young people are insane.

[Palmares]

What do those mean? :confused:

[The Feral Underclass]

"Bae" is an abbreviation for "before anyone else," so you use it as a term of endearment, "hello bae -- how are you doing today my bae."

"Turnt" is another word for being wasted. "Turnt up" means to be wasted and having a good time...

[Palmares]

Tbh omg, Idk, fyi m/b yer my bae & myke.


Does this make me younger now?

[The Feral Underclass]

What does "m/b" and "myke" mean?

[Palmares]

According to noslang.com they mean "maybe" and "man-dyke". ;)

I'm pretty sure I'm never going to use those words again... :lol:

[The Intransigent Faction]

"Bae" is an abbreviation for "before anyone else," so you use it as a term of endearment, "hello bae -- how are you doing today my bae."

"Turnt" is another word for being wasted. "Turnt up" means to be wasted and having a good time...

I've been seeing these on Facebook for WEEKS and had no idea what they meant (without caring enough to look it up, of course).

Turnt means wasted? Well, that's an interesting development...

[Os Cangaceiros]

Turnt means wasted? Well, that's an interesting development...

:ohmy:

kagjaZoBC3s

[Redistribute the Rep]

...other people's taste in music

[The Disillusionist]

People who interrupt constantly. It's tolerable when you're having a vigorous conversation about something the other person is really into, but when people make it a habit and interrupt ALL the time, I want to just staple their lips to their eyes.

[Tim Cornelis]

Music snobs. More often than not metalheads.

----
Bae = babe with silent b.

I thought.

[Atsumari]

Apple skins. Whenever I bite into them, I hear a really loud screech that causes a lot of auditory pain.

[The Feral Underclass]

Bae is an acronym for before anyone else.

[The Intransigent Faction]

Bae is an acronym for before anyone else.

LV0wTtiJygY

I'm too young to be this annoyed by new slang...:mad:

[Ethics Gradient, Traitor For All Ages]

I have two new ones. People who leave a shitload of pubes all over toilet seats and urinals and also people who use the word brother in lieu of dude, man, etc when they don't actually know me.

[Ele'ill]

today:

people walking into a store and then stopping in the doorway and looking around as a line of people trying to get in rapidly builds up behind them

cars that don't actually stop for you at crosswalks/continue to coast across the walk area as the idiot drivers are waving you on to your death

people who sit on the bus and listen to music loudly through speakers

myself using internet at a place where I know I am going to buy bad food afterwards during my week off from generally taking care of myself

people walking next to each other down a sidewalk and refusing to not walk right next to each other even for a brief second to let you walk past