Pet Peeves

Quote: EvenBob

At the casino today. Girl Asian dealer, waits about 20sec
after she removes the dolly to spin the ball again, doesn't
matter if people are done betting or not. Here comes an
Asian guy, buys in for $100. Takes his time making bets
and she waits patiently until he's totally thru and gives
her the sign its OK for her to spin. Took about 2min and
I, of course, am furious. I let him get away with it once.

The second time, I start bugging her about spinning. Whats
the hold up, I say, you were Speedy Gonzeles and now
you're molassas in January. The Asian guy gets done and
and gives her the sign, and I yell HOLD IT. I stand up and
survey the board and say 'OK, now you can spin.' The Asian
guy acknowledged me with a glare ( they usually ignore
non-Asians) and he lost every bet and stormed off. I was
laughing and during all this the dealer never once made eye
contact with me. Fun at the roulette table.

At least you got the last laugh. I've noticed the same thing with asian female dealers, and let me be clear to point out that it's SOME, not ALL. I have had some good ones over the years. But far too often, especially at Blackjack and Bacc I am ignored when I try to strike up a conversation... fast forward thirty seconds and there's a big dialogue between dealer and asian players in their language... happens all the time. Also seen them call the floor over to get ash trays or request comps on behalf of the players, meanwhile I'd never get that treatment and have had to wait as long as 5 min to get a floor's attention. I can't expect perfection from any dealer, but if you can't speak english you shouldn't be working in a customer service industry, and if you choose not to speak it during work same rule goes. And ask any dealer, it is a customer service industry, they say they are providing a service and are therefore deserving of a tip. If a dealer will engage in conversation or at the very least be polite and acknowledge what I say they are getting a tip whether I'm up or down. If not, I have no sympathy for not tipping.

As for the airport drink prices I completely echo your sentiment. The worst part is that the prices are very rarely listed on the menu, so you don't know until you order. Had two draft beers in Philly during a layover recently, came to 21 and change. Last year in Orlando got to airport too early waiting for flight home had dinner at Chili's and had a margarita for 7 dollars. Passed through security and had another at a different bar. This one was 14 dollars before gratuity, and get this, it was served in the same exact glass as the one at Chili's with the same liqour and ingredients.

Quote: winmonkeyspit3

At least you got the last laugh. I've noticed the same thing with asian female dealers, and let me be clear to point out that it's SOME, not ALL. I have had some good ones over the years. But far too often, especially at Blackjack and Bacc I am ignored when I try to strike up a conversation... fast forward thirty seconds and there's a big dialogue between dealer and asian players in their language... happens all the time. Also seen them call the floor over to get ash trays or request comps on behalf of the players, meanwhile I'd never get that treatment and have had to wait as long as 5 min to get a floor's attention..

LOL! I've reported this exact thing here many times,
almost word for word. Its the reason I quit playing
bac. The pit is so in the tank for Asian players it
makes me sick. I can't get any attention at all from
the pit and when an Asian player wants something,
its Yes sir! No sir! A buffet comp? Here you go! When
I break a rule the pit climbs all over me, yet an Asian
breaks the same rule and the pit is all Sgt Shultz's, they
see nothing! Hear nothing! Faaa, I gave up bac, who
needs the aggravation.

Quote: EvenBob

LOL! I've reported this exact thing here many times,
almost word for word. Its the reason I quit playing
bac. The pit is so in the tank for Asian players it
makes me sick. I can't get any attention at all from
the pit and when an Asian player wants something,
its Yes sir! No sir! A buffet comp? Here you go! When
I break a rule the pit climbs all over me, yet an Asian
breaks the same rule and the pit is all Sgt Shultz's, they
see nothing! Hear nothing! Faaa, I gave up bac, who
needs the aggravation.

There's a group of asians that always plays Bacc on Sunday nights at my local casino. It's a 25 min game where you can touch the cards. Some of them bet fairly large but there's one "flea" that pisses me off. He bets table min pretty much the whole night, if there's a long pattern he MAY bet 50 once in a while. I've even seen him bet red on top of a neighbors' bet but not bet himself. He also takes hands off frequently. If I bet banker and the asians are on player there is no way he is playing that hand. There is no way he is worth a lot to the casino other than the fact that he goes most Sundays. Casino also has a policy that 25$ tables and higher get free drinks but lower tables don't. He abuses this, ordering premium cocktails all night (Pina Colada, Mojito etc) and never tips. Pit can give discretionary comps based on that day's play where comps are not subtracted from points. This guy requests a free room every time and free steak dinners (hotels retail for 200 here and he gets 50 food credit). Meanwhile I bet double what he does and play other house games (BJ and craps) and have to literally beg for my comps. I call up in advance and reserve my room and get the casino rate. I don't get to deal with the International VIP host who lives in the Bacc pit and gives this guy all these comps because I'm caucasian, meanwhile this guy is clearly Asian-American by the fact he's there weekly and has been going for years. I get stuck dealing with the domestic host who is new and claims she is generous to me. I usually end up getting either a heavily discounted rate or free room and a food comp in addition to my mailers, but I have to keep walking across the casino to check with her if I've earned it yet, meanwhile he just yells something in Chinese to the VIP guy in the pit and gets the coupons brought right over to him.

Just looking at the math, this guy avg bet is 30 tops. Let's say he loses half a unit per hour and plays for 8 hours. That's 120 expected loss on the night, yet he gets a 200 hotel room 50 bucks in food 40 bucks in alcohol and probably mailers on top of that. I guess I should stop hating and just give him credit for milking the system so effectively. His "brother" in the pit really takes care of him.

Just one more thing before I end this little rant. Got invited to the big annual Bacc tournament with 50% off entry since I've logged a good amount of hours there. I understand at least 80% of the people playing it in my casino are asian, but the invitation I received in the mail was written in Chinese with a tiny translation in the bottom right corner. Makes me feel real welcome to come play in this event. Couldn't make it anyways. /rant

Quote: winmonkeyspit3

This guy requests a free room every time and free steak dinners (hotels retail for 200 here and he gets 50 food credit). Meanwhile I bet double what he does and play other house games (BJ and craps) and have to literally beg for my comps. I call up in advance and reserve my room and get the casino rate. I don't get to deal with the International VIP host who lives in the Bacc pit and gives this guy all these comps because I'm caucasian,

Everything you say is true, and here's whats going on.
The Asian players really do all know each other and they
talk a lot outside the casino, where they live. If you dis
one of them, you dis all of them and they'll vote with their
feet and boycott a casino over almost nothing. I got this
right from the floor manager at a local casino and its the
reason I quit bac. The casino does kiss their asses, comps
the crap out of them, lets them break the rules. Its that or
lose their business.

One of the things they do that infuriates me is they will
abandon they're playing spot, leave all the chips there,
and wander away for an hour sometimes. Or more. If
I did that, the pit would take down my chips after a few
hands. But they let the Asian players do it for a few SHOES.
I once saw them take down an Asian players hand after he
had been gone for 90min. They had a conference in the
pit that went of for 5min. When the guy finally returned he
had a fit. He was screaming in Chinese at the dealer and the
pit was bowing and scraping like he was royalty. Then he
accused them of stealing some of his green chips and things
really got nasty. I think they finally comped him a room for
the rest of his life or something. It was sickening.

Quote: EvenBob

Everything you say is true...

...It was sickening.

I know the feeling. I'm sicked every time I read a racist rant.

I see gaming more of a non-gambling term. Gamers are video game players in my opinion. Just as the tobacco companies were force to put warning labels on the side of the package, casinos should have to use the term gambling. They uses in they gambling problem policy, but you never hear the word gamble, or gambling on the TV commercials for casinos. They only time you hear it is when someone has a problem.

I have an unrelated pet peeve. It has to do with an online dating site. They use "communicate for free" when in fact all you get for free is to post a free profile.

Well, there is always a certain "lingo"... Life Assurance Company does better amongst those who don't hold by Insurance.
Casinos don't even provide gaming opportunities: they provide "entertainment" or "excitement" or even plain simple 'fun'.
Casinos depict beautiful women and jovial companions in a very festive atmosphere.... the fact that the photo depicts the plastic lid is down over the BJ chips is meaningless: the models still have great smiles and great boobs. And everybody depicted in the photo has a humungous pile of chips in front of them.

It's a pet peeve of mine when companies say they're competitive when they are not. If you mentions something which doesn't make sense about their operations or pricing, they just say they're competitive, which really means nothing as much as random means anything. By saying they're competitive, often it means they'll do whatever they want because they have no competition.

The company which spurred this thought was Greyhound because their website rips off people any chance they get and they now have a facility fee for each ticket I would assume to really enable the system the way it is. I just don't see the reasoning behind a RT being more expensive than 2 one-way tickets or adding a small segment RT to a longer RT making the total bigger by more than the cost of the smaller segment addition. Whatever their reasoning is, I don't get it. The whole website is confusing to me and hard to navigate, which would not make sense to encourage more ridership in a greenish company. It's too bad they can't do anything to encourage more travelling this way and get rid of the public stigma associated with bus riding. Maybe it's all easier said than done perhaps.

One more thing. KFC is selling a dark meat 10 piece deal, but by the looks of the size of the legs, they're selling chicken children and chicken little people. Also, where are all the bones going and who is pulling out all the bones?

Quote: onenickelmiracle

One more thing. KFC is selling a dark meat 10 piece deal

KFC opened it first store here in 1964. I got a
15 piece bucket for $3.99. Ate all of it in one
sitting it was that good. Got violently ill from
all the grease half an hour later and never
touched it again for 20 years.

Quote: EvenBob

KFC opened it first store here in 1964. I got a
15 piece bucket for $3.99. Ate all of it in one
sitting it was that good. Got violently ill from
all the grease half an hour later and never
touched it again for 20 years.

So you started eating KFC in 1984 then?

Quote: ClarkWGriswold

So you started eating KFC in 1984 then?

I first ate Kentucky Fried Chicken in 1964.

Movies with the following:

1. Zombies
2. Vampires
3. Epic Battle Sequences
4. Boston Accents
5. Hangovers and Boys Nights Out

Do Peeves make for good pets? Frankly I think anything beyond dogs and cats is just an affectation.

A peeve is not a type of dog:

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0788.html

(also a great web-comic if you know anything about d&d, role-playing, or games in general)

Quote: dwheatley

A peeve is not a type of dog:

I know. That's why I said anything other than dogs or cats is an affectation.

So, what do you feed a Peeve? ;)

I hate atm fees. I get it from the dispensing atm's bank and from my bank. Currently, the interest in my saving's account, I earn 0.1% annual interest. I need to pay to use my own money.

I hate the pc of calling boys little men and girls little ladies. Why can't we call them boys and girls. We don't say pedophiles were abusing little men. While I am at it, I hate pc.

Quote: AceCrAAckers

We don't say pedophiles were abusing little men. While I am at it, I hate pc.

When I was a kid I had an old bachelor uncle who
bounced us kids on his knee all the time. Try that
now and the police will be there in 5min.

Quote: EvenBob

When I was a kid I had an old bachelor uncle who
bounced us kids on his knee all the time. Try that
now and the police will be there in 5min.

"Spare the rod, spoil the child." Imagine saying that now.

Lazy, selfish people who put up yard sale signs and have no intention of taking them down once the sale is over. I've got four along a section of my property right now and one of them is actually on my property. We'll see if they're gone when I return from AC on Monday.

Quote: 1BB

Lazy, selfish people who put up yard sale signs and have no intention of taking them down once the sale is over. I've got four along a section of my property right now and one of them is actually on my property. We'll see if they're gone when I return from AC on Monday.

Maybe they'll sell all your stuff while you're gone.

Quote: seattledice

Maybe they'll sell all your stuff while you're gone.

Oh, reminds me of the Craigslist ad that advertised an open house. Just show up and take what's there. Except it wasn't by the owner and the owner wasn't there at the time. Think someone even ripped out his toilet.

Quote: seattledice

Maybe they'll sell all your stuff while you're gone.

Ha ha. I see you know my relatives. :-)

Quote: tringlomane

One airport I was impressed with in terms of their beer and price was Salt Lake City. There was a local brewery in the airport, and although not listed on the menu, they had a 6 beer flight of 3oz each I think and I paid like $5.50 for it? Prices definitely weren't super inflated. Beer was good enough for me to want to connect through SLC to Vegas again.

Don't you have to be a club member in order to be in a bar in Utah?

Quote: 1BB

Lazy, selfish people who put up yard sale signs and have no intention of taking them down once the sale is over. I've got four along a section of my property right now and one of them is actually on my property. We'll see if they're gone when I return from AC on Monday.

+1

I'm a bit of a yard sale junkie myself, so I especially hate the arrow signs that will point you down some side road to a yard sale that occurred two weeks prior. At least they could write the dates on the sign, so if they are too lazy to pull the sign, nobody is going to drive half a mile down a rural road for no reason.

Quote: Mission146

I'm a bit of a yard sale junkie myself, so I especially hate the ....

My gripe is the poorly made signs that can't be read at 30mph from 50 feet away because they're written in pencil, or thin letters on a similar colored paper. I want fat black letters to be seen from a distance, with an arrow pointing which way, in plenty of time that I can turn. I hate the signs made by the kid in the family with 50 small words on a 8.5x11 sheet of paper that no one can read driving past. Or a sign that says 123 Fir Street, with no arrow. If I'm not from that neighborhood I have no idea where Fir street is. Or a paper sign stapled vertically to a phone pole that has curled in the wind and has folded over on itself so it can't be read.

People who can't advertise their own sale deserve to fail. It's annoying because I want to go to their sale, but their stupidity makes it near-impossible. Makes me wonder if they're successful in other areas of their lives.

I'm definitely not a fan of the signs in pencil, but I'll usually just pass those up without a second thought. If the sellers don't want me to know their location without risking a traffic accident, then they just don't want me to know their location.

With regards to them being successful in other areas, it seems that there are only two types of people who have a yard sale: those with excess material stuff, and those who desperately need the money, but would otherwise want to keep the stuff. I wouldn't be shocked if many of the people who don't put much time into marketing the yard sale are reasonably well-off.

A big pet peeve of mine is so called 'thread hijacking'.

I've been on the net now for 21 years, and have been
on forums since there were only newsgroups to choose
from. Why does the OP think a thread belongs to him
and him alone? And anybody who veers from his original
intent is an evil hijacker.

Threads are conversations. This isn't a college class, or
a debate club, where you have to stay on topic or else.
In a conversation one thing leads to another, just like
it does over dinner or in a bar. These people who get
their tidy whities all in a bunch because somebody 'stole'
their precious thread need to lighten up. This ain't
the Harvard Debate Society, where rules of conduct are written
in stone.

This is a big one. For instance, last month I looked up
outdoor lights because I want to buy one. Everywhere
I go now, I see that stupid light on the side of the page
because I looked it up ONCE and now some as cookie
has me pegged. I even did an anti spam scan and it
didn't get rid of the damn thing.

Wait till you do a search for "propeller wash" and see ads for cleaning solutions weeks later.

Quote: EvenBob

At the casino today. Girl Asian dealer, waits about 20sec
after she removes the dolly to spin the ball again, doesn't
matter if people are done betting or not. Here comes an
Asian guy, buys in for $100. Takes his time making bets
and she waits patiently until he's totally thru and gives
her the sign its OK for her to spin. Took about 2min and
I, of course, am furious. I let him get away with it once.

The second time, I start bugging her about spinning. Whats
the hold up, I say, you were Speedy Gonzeles and now
you're molassas in January. The Asian guy gets done and
and gives her the sign, and I yell HOLD IT. I stand up and
survey the board and say 'OK, now you can spin.' The Asian
guy acknowledged me with a glare ( they usually ignore
non-Asians) and he lost every bet and stormed off. I was
laughing and during all this the dealer never once made eye
contact with me. Fun at the roulette table.

why do you play roulette?

Quote: AxelWolf

why do you play roulette?

The socializing, why else. I live for the
camaraderie..

I don't know if anyone else will get the bouncing ad down on the right a little bit. It is twerking. I don't want to buy anything when I see this, I want to kill the advertiser.

http://natmonitor.com/2013/10/28/discovery-of-mini-neural-computer-multiplies-the-brains-processing-power/

I went back and read all the pages. Interesting read.

I think I put a couple of these before but guess I can consolidate them into here.

People who still sign their name after their posts on forums when we can all very well read your screen name.

People who use the words "meh", "tho", "ne1" and other stupid non-words and short spells.

People who see you standing next to a locked door and still try to open it, like you are just standing out there for S's and G's.

People who set 3-4 alarms in a row. Why not set one alarm and actually wake up to it instead of being an inconsiderate tool and having a shrill loud noise going on multiple times.

Pizza place that charge a mandatory delivery fee and making sure you know at least 10 times that none of it goes to the driver and you better make sure you tip him or her as well. For me delivery fee cuts into the overall tip no despite whatever pizza place/driver politics are going on. At least competition breeds places with free delivery where all the money(in theory) goes to the driver.

Quote: Perdition

People who use the words "meh", "tho", "ne1" and other stupid non-words and short spells.

I use "meh" and also "bah", but I actually say those words out loud in conversation. Other than that, totally agree. I don't care if you're texting. Spelling and grammar matter.

Quote: EvenBob

A big pet peeve of mine is so called 'thread hijacking'.

I've been on the net now for 21 years, and have been
on forums since there were only newsgroups to choose
from. Why does the OP think a thread belongs to him
and him alone? And anybody who veers from his original
intent is an evil hijacker.

Threads are conversations. This isn't a college class, or
a debate club, where you have to stay on topic or else.
In a conversation one thing leads to another, just like
it does over dinner or in a bar. These people who get
their tidy whities all in a bunch because somebody 'stole'
their precious thread need to lighten up. This ain't
the Harvard Debate Society, where rules of conduct are written
in stone.

I think the term is "tighty whities." Unless I've been thinking it wrong in my head this whole time.

Quote: AcesAndEights

I think the term is "tighty whities." Unless I've been thinking it wrong in my head this whole time.

1. tidy whities
plain white men's brief underwear; often torn or soiled
'I wear dem tidy whities'

Urban Dictionary

When people use the word literally in a statement that is clearly an exaggeration.

From: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tighty%20whities

1. tighty whities
A synonym for briefs . They are underwear worn for there support purposes, antonym of boxers. The pros of tighty whities are support in gym class and hiding an erection. The disadvantages are that if you are pantsed then your penis will appear smaller, and that they might strangle your penis.

Because of incidents in which prison inmates trousers started to fall down, many teenagers believe baggy pants are cool. Because of that, it became the cool thing to wear boxers instead of old fashioned tighty whities.

Advice if you're going to High School and male. In order to make your life alot easier, wear boxer shorts.
"Nice Tighty Whities, nerd!"

"... Tighty Whities are convenient and supportive"

"So? Boxers are loosy-goosy and cooler!"


wiki also agrees with "tighty whities"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briefs

Now being from the Midwest, I probably pronounce it closer to "Tidy Whities". In a high-school drama class I took because I can't sing or draw, one of the things we had to practice was saying: "Betty Botter bought a bit of butter".

Quote: tringlomane

1. tighty whities
A synonym for briefs . .

Noun
tidy whities (plural only)
(informal) Men's briefs; underwear.  

Quote: EvenBob

Noun
tidy whities (plural only)
(informal) Men's briefs; underwear.  

I think someone misheard tighty when they substituted tidy. The "tight" is the fit.

Quote: rxwine

I think someone misheard tighty when they substituted tidy. The "tight" is the fit.

Seen it both ways. It's a stupid phrase anyway,
I'm sorry I used it.

I think Walter White and Alan Harper are making tighty whities cool again. Or maybe not. Maybe some adventurous member could create a poll regarding the popularity of them versus boxers, boxer briefs, and commando.

Desert versus Dessert

versus

Quote: ten2win

Desert versus Dessert

but "They received their just deserts".

Here's one I never thought or heard of until I had to experience it: People who don't have children giving advice when your baby cries. Or really any stranger giving parenting advice to you (which seems to have happened a lot to me). Pretty much every time you can just say "No S*** Sherlock!" but I haven't yet.

Quote: Mooseton

Here's one I never thought or heard of until I had to experience it: People who don't have children giving advice when your baby cries. Or really any stranger giving parenting advice to you (which seems to have happened a lot to me). Pretty much every time you can just say "No S*** Sherlock!" but I haven't yet.

Never buy your kid a rifle. He could poke his eye out with that thing.

I don't have kids.

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Quote: djatc

Never buy your kid a rifle. He could poke his eye out with that thing.

I don't have kids.

Nice one. But WoV members get a pass to give advice both good and bad.

Must not be present to win drawings.

People who are one car too many making the left turn on yellow/red.

People who walk around with invisible lats syndrome or whatever it's called.

Shorted royals on novelty games without paying the extra coin.

Guys wonging in and out of games with matchplays (oh wait that's me)

Cashiers who think you had a jackpot but you are breaking even/lost money. (did this with $6k+ once)

Casinos with too extreme differences in temperature to the outside (GOLDEN NUGGET)

People who sway left and right in a buffet line with no clear cut form of direction

TV guide listings with the wrong shows! I love Family Guy, not Naruto damnit.

People who cash multiple tickets at a machine but not all at once, or bother to make a megaticket (I swear I said this before)

Casino hustlers who "bring you luck" when you win, but are quiet when you lose. (Massage lady I see you)

Change people who bring $20's and below when you can bring $100's for the transaction unless I specify.