Pet Peeves
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Quote: Mission146Haha!!! Nothing like that.
I just see it as a binary choice of having a man or woman make incidental direct contact with me, so of the two, I would prefer it be a woman. I don't want to offend any, "Non-binary," folks, or whatever, so perhaps it is more appropriate to say I will either perceive the person as a man, or woman, and would prefer it be a woman.
I also tend to not have loyalty to a particular stylist, most of the time. I get my hair cut so infrequently that I usually don't remember their names, which ends up being awkward on its own, so then I have to go somewhere I've never been before.
Meh. I guess it's just something that I have to live with unless I want either a buzz cut (doing it myself) or likely a bad haircut (if my fiancee were to do it). There are worse fates and I only get a haircut twice a year, or so. I think I'll do some less extreme variant of the advice to just say something (while being polite) that will make the stylist not want to talk to me anymore.
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The barber shop i go to has four chairs. Usually two men and two women, My only criteria is whoever can get me in first. If I have to wait over 5 minutes I am pissed.
Quote: DRichQuote: gordonm888When your hair stylist asks your occupation, tell her you're a rectal surgeon. Someone once did this to me, and it really chills the conversation. I did finally ask "Why did you choose that?" and his response was that his father was the first rectal surgeon in the state. And then there was nowhere for the dinner conversation to go.
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Sadly, I would have a lot of questions if someone told me their occupation was a rectal surgeon.
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It’s a great job. Things are always looking up.
Quote: Mission146Haha!!! Nothing like that.
I just see it as a binary choice of having a man or woman make incidental direct contact with me, so of the two, I would prefer it be a woman. I don't want to offend any, "Non-binary," folks, or whatever, so perhaps it is more appropriate to say I will either perceive the person as a man, or woman, and would prefer it be a woman.
I also tend to not have loyalty to a particular stylist, most of the time. I get my hair cut so infrequently that I usually don't remember their names, which ends up being awkward on its own, so then I have to go somewhere I've never been before.
Meh. I guess it's just something that I have to live with unless I want either a buzz cut (doing it myself) or likely a bad haircut (if my fiancee were to do it). There are worse fates and I only get a haircut twice a year, or so. I think I'll do some less extreme variant of the advice to just say something (while being polite) that will make the stylist not want to talk to me anymore.
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First, with your sunny disposition and gift of gab, I am sure you could convey, very sweetly, your desires regarding the cut, trim, and session expectations.
Second, "twice a year"? Really? A pet peeve? Man, imagine that.
tuttigym
Thanks guys. Nailed it.
Quote: DieterEmails informing me that I have successfully unsubscribed from future emails.
Thanks guys. Nailed it.
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I remember getting advice in the Stoneage of the Internet not to unsubscribe from spam. Which is kind of a conundrum. Fortunately spam filters kind of work. Not sure what else you can do effectively.
My belief/experience is that if it is a reputable company, unsubscribing will generally work the way you want it. If it's one of those "Nigerian prince" type emails, then yes "unsubscribing" is generally a bad idea. It lets them know there is someone there.Quote: rxwineI remember getting advice in the Stoneage of the Internet not to unsubscribe from spam. Which is kind of a conundrum. Fortunately spam filters kind of work. Not sure what else you can do effectively.
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Re: haircuts & barbers, as a kid, my Dad would take me to a barber shop where the barber was male, and we would talk sports and other guy topics. These days, I have found that these type places are hard to find. I have settled for a place that does a decent job, and doesn't charge too much (I paid $18 + $4 tip for my last haircut -- although I now feel like a stiff compared to the way Mission tips!). All the stylists at the barber shop are female, but I really don't mind the chit-chat too much.
Out of curiosity Mission, if your stylist only would discuss topics that interested you, would that be ok, or would you still prefer silence? Feel free not to answer. I bet stylists' choice of topic while cutting hair is not something that would interest you!
Quote: rxwineQuote: DieterEmails informing me that I have successfully unsubscribed from future emails.
Thanks guys. Nailed it.
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I remember getting advice in the Stoneage of the Internet not to unsubscribe from spam. Which is kind of a conundrum. Fortunately spam filters kind of work. Not sure what else you can do effectively.
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These are solicited commercial emails that I am no longer interested in, not unsolicited spam.
Imagine, if you will, thoughtfully ordering an assortment of smelly candles for someone who appreciates that sort of thing, but being stuck on their newsletter list after providing an email address in exchange for a 28% discount plus free expedited order processing.
I can assure you that a weekly newsletter explaining all the new smells that their fire-jars emit holds no particular value to me.
Quote: rxwineMy newest pet peeve is video ads showing up on web pages with no volume button.
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I have started keeping my volume muted unless there is something I want to listen too. I probably turn my volume on once a day to listen to something.
Bisbee is lighting the town Christmas tree tonite with a min-parade, music, and a Santa driveby. Emails sent over the last week invite everyone to attend.
Only it's not a tree or even a fake tree. It a 40-foot pole with lights wrapped around it and four guidewires holding it up.
I have yet to see it lit at night, but in daylight, it looks sad.
Quote: JoemanMy belief/experience is that if it is a reputable company, unsubscribing will generally work the way you want it. If it's one of those "Nigerian prince" type emails, then yes "unsubscribing" is generally a bad idea. It lets them know there is someone there.Quote: rxwineI remember getting advice in the Stoneage of the Internet not to unsubscribe from spam. Which is kind of a conundrum. Fortunately spam filters kind of work. Not sure what else you can do effectively.
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Re: haircuts & barbers, as a kid, my Dad would take me to a barber shop where the barber was male, and we would talk sports and other guy topics. These days, I have found that these type places are hard to find. I have settled for a place that does a decent job, and doesn't charge too much (I paid $18 + $4 tip for my last haircut -- although I now feel like a stiff compared to the way Mission tips!). All the stylists at the barber shop are female, but I really don't mind the chit-chat too much.
Out of curiosity Mission, if your stylist only would discuss topics that interested you, would that be ok, or would you still prefer silence? Feel free not to answer. I bet stylists' choice of topic while cutting hair is not something that would interest you!
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Generally speaking, I'd rather discuss a general subject (that hopefully rises above the level of small talk) rather than have probing questions rapid fired at me. If they didn't ask personal questions, then I would even be fine with throwaway small talk; I'd take pretty much anything that is not asking me personal questions.
22.222% is not tipping like a stiff. I tend to tip really high to make up for people who don't, and also, there's really nothing else I'd care to do with the money anyway, for the most part.
Quote: rxwineMy newest pet peeve is video ads showing up on web pages with no volume button.
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Along similar lines, Google's top recommendations frequently being sites that are behind a paywall. It's gotten to the point where I have several committed to memory and know not to click.
Maybe if it had specified, they offered discounts for memberships like some stores do, it would have made sense.
The first two lunge immediately to mind:Quote: DRichQuote: gordonm888When your hair stylist asks your occupation, tell her you're a rectal surgeon. Someone once did this to me, and it really chills the conversation. I did finally ask "Why did you choose that?" and his response was that his father was the first rectal surgeon in the state. And then there was nowhere for the dinner conversation to go.
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Sadly, I would have a lot of questions if someone told me their occupation was a rectal surgeon.
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1. What's the biggest artificial object you've ever pulled out of someone?
2. Did you ever pull something out that was still alive?
Quote: BillHasRetiredThe first two lunge immediately to mind:Quote: DRichQuote: gordonm888When your hair stylist asks your occupation, tell her you're a rectal surgeon. Someone once did this to me, and it really chills the conversation. I did finally ask "Why did you choose that?" and his response was that his father was the first rectal surgeon in the state. And then there was nowhere for the dinner conversation to go.
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Sadly, I would have a lot of questions if someone told me their occupation was a rectal surgeon.
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1. What's the biggest artificial object you've ever pulled out of someone?
2. Did you ever pull something out that was still alive?
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1. A large arrow. (I watched, didn’t actually pull it out. )
2. Do maggots count?
Quote: BillHasRetiredThe first two lunge immediately to mind:Quote: DRichQuote: gordonm888When your hair stylist asks your occupation, tell her you're a rectal surgeon. Someone once did this to me, and it really chills the conversation. I did finally ask "Why did you choose that?" and his response was that his father was the first rectal surgeon in the state. And then there was nowhere for the dinner conversation to go.
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Sadly, I would have a lot of questions if someone told me their occupation was a rectal surgeon.
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1. What's the biggest artificial object you've ever pulled out of someone?
2. Did you ever pull something out that was still alive?
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Tapeworms.
Although my dad told a joke about getting a tapeworm out by starving and sitting in front of a bowl of milk with your mouth open.
My wife never puts the cap back on the toothpaste. I even started buying the one with the flip-top thinking she would close it but she never does. It bothers me every single morning for 12 years and I have never said a word. I know if I bring it up she will have 50 different thing to complain about how I do them and I don't plan on changing.
Quote: DRichPet peeve:
My wife never puts the cap back on the toothpaste. I even started buying the one with the flip-top thinking she would close it but she never does. It bothers me every single morning for 12 years and I have never said a word. I know if I bring it up she will have 50 different thing to complain about how I do them and I don't plan on changing.
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My wife does this as well, but I've learned over the years that it's better to ignore these small things for the good of the overall relationship. I'm not going to get divorced over how she loads the dishwasher. Plus, as you mentioned, husbands do things that aren't so great either. Perfect people should live by themselves.
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Tapeworms.
Although my dad told a joke about getting a tapeworm out by starving and sitting in front of a bowl of milk with your mouth open.
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Apparently, back in Victorian times there were companies advertising pills for weight loss. You swallowed one pill which had a tapeworm in it. Once you lost the weight you wanted, you took a second pill which killed the tapeworm. This has never been proven, though, and the pills may have just been a quack money-making scam where no tapeworms were involved.
Quote: smoothgrhQuote: DRichPet peeve:
My wife never puts the cap back on the toothpaste. I even started buying the one with the flip-top thinking she would close it but she never does. It bothers me every single morning for 12 years and I have never said a word. I know if I bring it up she will have 50 different thing to complain about how I do them and I don't plan on changing.
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My wife does this as well, but I've learned over the years that it's better to ignore these small things for the good of the overall relationship. I'm not going to get divorced over how she loads the dishwasher. Plus, as you mentioned, husbands do things that aren't so great either. Perfect people should live by themselves.
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It sounds like we think alike.
Quote: smoothgrhQuote: DRichPet peeve:
My wife never puts the cap back on the toothpaste. I even started buying the one with the flip-top thinking she would close it but she never does. It bothers me every single morning for 12 years and I have never said a word. I know if I bring it up she will have 50 different thing to complain about how I do them and I don't plan on changing.
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My wife does this as well, but I've learned over the years that it's better to ignore these small things for the good of the overall relationship. I'm not going to get divorced over how she loads the dishwasher. Plus, as you mentioned, husbands do things that aren't so great either. Perfect people should live by themselves.
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I am not married any more (since 1975). Therefore, I do not have to contend with peeves created by a marriage.
I do have two workable easily achieved answers to the predicament.
1. Use separate bathrooms.
2. Buy another tube of toothpaste and label it for your exclusive use.
tuttigym
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2. Buy another tube of toothpaste and label it for your exclusive use.
tuttigym
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I sometimes hide my own tube under the counter.
And to show my love in a way that won't ever be known, I sometimes roll up her tube so it's more easily squeezable.
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2. Buy another tube of toothpaste and label it for your exclusive use.
That would just create a new problem as she would ask why we need two tubes of toothpaste. Much safer to not even address the problem.
Quote: DRichQuote: tuttigym
2. Buy another tube of toothpaste and label it for your exclusive use.
That would just create a new problem as she would ask why we need two tubes of toothpaste. Much safer to not even address the problem.
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There is an appropriate response, but I would be suspended, so fill in the blank _______!
tuttigym
Quote: tuttigymQuote: smoothgrhQuote: DRichPet peeve:
My wife never puts the cap back on the toothpaste. I even started buying the one with the flip-top thinking she would close it but she never does. It bothers me every single morning for 12 years and I have never said a word. I know if I bring it up she will have 50 different thing to complain about how I do them and I don't plan on changing.
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My wife does this as well, but I've learned over the years that it's better to ignore these small things for the good of the overall relationship. I'm not going to get divorced over how she loads the dishwasher. Plus, as you mentioned, husbands do things that aren't so great either. Perfect people should live by themselves.
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I am not married any more (since 1975). Therefore, I do not have to contend with peeves created by a marriage.
I do have two workable easily achieved answers to the predicament.
1. Use separate bathrooms.
2. Buy another tube of toothpaste and label it for your exclusive use.
tuttigym
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Oh, but were it so simple to guard my dentifrice supply from the perils of being squeezed in the middle.
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Oh, but were it so simple to guard my dentifrice supply from the perils of being squeezed in the middle.
Indeed.
tuttigym
Would she notice and care if the cap was gone/missing?Quote: DRichQuote: tuttigym
2. Buy another tube of toothpaste and label it for your exclusive use.
That would just create a new problem as she would ask why we need two tubes of toothpaste. Much safer to not even address the problem.
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If so, steal the cap a few times and when she asks about it say you don't know perhaps I'm forgetting to put it on and it's getting lost. She might make sure she puts it back on herself.
I know how to wash clothes properly, load the dishwasher, and put stuff away correctly, however, my wife doesn't think so, or at least she thinks I won't do it properly, therefore, she forbids me from doing those things.
Quote: AxelWolfWould she notice and care if the cap was gone/missing?Quote: DRichQuote: tuttigym
2. Buy another tube of toothpaste and label it for your exclusive use.
That would just create a new problem as she would ask why we need two tubes of toothpaste. Much safer to not even address the problem.
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If so, steal the cap a few times and when she asks about it say you don't know perhaps I'm forgetting to put it on and it's getting lost. She might make sure she puts it back on herself.
I know how to wash clothes properly, load the dishwasher, and put stuff away correctly, however, my wife doesn't think so, or at least she thinks I won't do it properly, therefore, she forbids me from doing those things.
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That is why I am NOT married. I can do what I want when I want without any GUILT.
tuttigym
ever since Colonel Sanders died,KFC hasn't been the same and priced have gone through the roofQuote: 7NeverWinsPlaces like Boston Market & KFC selling "Family Meals" but forcing you to take the sides THEY choose and only allowing you the choice of 1 out of 3 sides!
I realize it's a gimmick to move menu items that don't sell, but seriously when you force people to take "common sides" like Mashed Potatoes & Stuffing instead of choosing it themselves, it just reeks of poor service. And when you ask nicely to change something, the rebuttal is always "Yea, but it'll cost you extra!" is just absurd.
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Also if you come up behind me with super bright headlights I won't get out of your way. I will get out of the way of someone with respectable headlight manners.
Quote: rxwineI don't know if newer cars are coming out with brighter headlights or more people are changing out their stock headlights for extra bright. I was already annoyed with raised vehicles whose headlights shine too high.
Also if you come up behind me with super bright headlights I won't get out of your way. I will get out of the way of someone with respectable headlight manners.
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You shouldn't be in the right lane unless you are passing, It's a courtesy to move aside for faster traffic.
Quote: billryanQuote: rxwineI don't know if newer cars are coming out with brighter headlights or more people are changing out their stock headlights for extra bright. I was already annoyed with raised vehicles whose headlights shine too high.
Also if you come up behind me with super bright headlights I won't get out of your way. I will get out of the way of someone with respectable headlight manners.
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You shouldn't be in the right lane unless you are passing, It's a courtesy to move aside for faster traffic.
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Right or left?
Snowing something awful up on the plains right now.
Abundance of caution and all that, but if you can't go at least half the speed limit, your trip should probably wait until the weather is nicer.
Quote: billryanQuote: rxwineI don't know if newer cars are coming out with brighter headlights or more people are changing out their stock headlights for extra bright. I was already annoyed with raised vehicles whose headlights shine too high.
Also if you come up behind me with super bright headlights I won't get out of your way. I will get out of the way of someone with respectable headlight manners.
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You shouldn't be in the right lane unless you are passing, It's a courtesy to move aside for faster traffic.
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I think you mean left, but no worries. Driving too slow in the left lane annoys me also.
It's a learning experience, but I think I will avoid extended cold weather.
2 nights at 4Q. Midweek you’re probably talking $79.98 total ?Quote: TinManPet peeve that someone here may have experience with.
I booked a room at 4 Queens. Person on the phone said room was comped (I received a postcard for 2 nights free). But the Confirmation email identifies a price. I point this out and she says don’t worry about that, we have you in the system as comped. I asked for some confirmation in email that the room is comped and they didn’t provide one. I don’t want to get to the front desk and have them say it’s not comped. I did call back and another person did say he could see it was in as a comp. Still, I’d really like for the confirmation email to say comp. Or at least exclude the price (which is what I’ve seen before).
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She had three small dogs with her, an older one and two just out of puppyhood.
The cops were telling her dogs aren't allowed, but she insisted the older dog was her therapy dog and she couldn't go anywhere without it, and the mother was so attached to her puppies that they had to be there.
They were pretty calm, and finally told her either leave or she'd get a ticket. When she heard the summons was twenty-five dollars, she started laughing and said to write her the ticket and not to waste her time over $25. She announces to the small crowd that she doesn't give a sh about $25, how she spends that on bottled water for her dogs, etc,etc, and how $25 means nothing.
Then she finds out she gets a $25 summons for each dog and flips out.
I met a friend in Covington Saturday night and we went out for a short barcrawl. We walk into one bar and order two pints of Yuengling. The bartender is not the least bit friendly and takes my $20 and gives me $4 change. The last place we were in charged $3.50 for the same thing, but I didn't say anything. A few minutes later, a group comes in and one of them orders two pitchers of Yuengling and I hear the bartender say $18. I ask him how much the pitchers are, and he says $9 each. I tell him it's our first time in this bar and I don't feel very welcome. My friend asks why he didn't tell us we could have gotten a pitcher for a much better price and he tells us it isn't his job to tell people the specials. A guy down at the end of the bar walks over, says he is the owner and asks what the problem is.
As a former bar owner, I'd have bought us the next round and apologized for the misunderstanding, but this guy tells us how he knows the bartender for years and couldn't be happier with him. He says we should finish our beers and leave. I see the look in my friends eye and decide it is time to go.
MDawg's Shaving Recommendations.
MDawg's Shaving Recommendations II
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Quote: mcallister3200I really, really hate shaving. Hate it. Struggle to understand how many folks tolerate voluntarily doing it every day or two.
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I don't care enough to shave or pursue permanent hair removal.
I am perfectly content looking "scruffy".
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I don't care enough to shave or pursue permanent hair removal.
I am perfectly content looking "scruffy".
That surprises me. It is funny how from these websites we feel like we know someone and I did not picture you with facial hair.
Many years ago i did a post where I posted pictures of what i thought many members would look like.
Here is yours:
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I don't care enough to shave or pursue permanent hair removal.
I am perfectly content looking "scruffy".
That surprises me. It is funny how from these websites we feel like we know someone and I did not picture you with facial hair.
Many years ago i did a post where I posted pictures of what i thought many members would look like.
Here is yours:
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That’s a picture of someone with facial hair . . .
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That’s a picture of someone with facial hair . . .
I know, but that was the most representative picture I could find in my one minute of surfing.
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I don't care enough to shave or pursue permanent hair removal.
I am perfectly content looking "scruffy".
That surprises me. It is funny how from these websites we feel like we know someone and I did not picture you with facial hair.
Many years ago i did a post where I posted pictures of what i thought many members would look like.
Here is yours:
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Looks somewhat like me, although more like other people.
I haven't worn that style of hat since I was a teenager (excepting one halloween about a decade ago), and that picture doesn't quite capture my dislike of bacon.
