Pet Peeves
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Quote: TwoFeathersATLPet peeve?
Damn urinals.
Shouldn't be that hard.
They come in dozens (100's?) sizes and shapes and 99% of them splash piss on my thousand dollar tennis shoes. Not to mention my slacks....
They have pee troughs at some stadiums and such, they seem to work OK.
Go to an expensive restuarant ( or casino ) and my damn shoes get wet.
Can't they just design a funnel or something I can pee in ;-?
These guys like urinals.
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This country has been purposely making cheap products for years. We probably gave them the idea in the first place. Companies spend millions of dollars researching how to make products wear out and break faster so consumers will have to keep replacing them. I believe its called planned obsolessence.Quote: onenickelmiracleI hate cheap Chinese junk. Nothing is more certain than any choice you make at WalMart is going to break within the first year or month, if not the first time you try using it. All the environmental laws anyone passes could be eclipsed if they had to sell quality products. Makes no sense for Chinese slaves living in closets, just so the crap gets shipped across the world just for all those materials and energy to be placed inside a landfill in Des Moines.
How many coffee makers and vacuums have I bought through the years? The coffee makers are always the same slowly losing the heating element until something fails. I could pay more, but you have no guarantee it will be any better. Seems like you're renting instead of buying anyways $20 a year. An electric coffee pot for $20 lasts a year, two years for $40, 3 for $60. It's so crazy how this seems planned out. At the lower end, you almost have to wonder if they go out of their ways so this stuff breaks early.
We used the same clothes pins for 40 years. Finally my brother picks some up made in China. Turns out there is about a 40% chance they'll break every time you use them. Why even cut down a tree to make 10c in the clothes pin scam?
Nobody is doing or saying anything about this either. Bad enough they dump stuff, but can't we have a say on the quality?
Quote: TwoFeathersATLPet peeve?
Damn urinals.
Shouldn't be that hard.
They come in dozens (100's?) sizes and shapes and 99% of them splash piss on my thousand dollar tennis shoes. Not to mention my slacks....
They have pee troughs at some stadiums and such, they seem to work OK.
Go to an expensive restuarant ( or casino ) and my damn shoes get wet.
Can't they just design a funnel or something I can pee in ;-?
Definitely makes my list. I would also add:
1) People who consistently use double negatives.
2) Anyone who thinks "got" is a universal replacement for any action verb.
3) Drivers that change lanes without signaling.
4) People who believe they'll recoup their gambling losses on the Big Wheel by betting a dollar at a time.
5) Waitresses that forget about refilling my drink or asking if I need a refill then expect a tip.
6) People who cannot refrain from discussing politics or religion all the time.
7) Long lists of pet peeves like this one.
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On the subject of planned obsolescence, yes companies do this. It isn't fair because as a consumer, you have no way to know. It's also I presume just as easy and economical to make the products either way. For the sake of landfills, wasted energy and materials, hope there is a newfound market to emerge for prideful quality that lasts.
On the same note, you just have to assume some websites intentionally slow the process down loading pages. Sometimes it could be bad programming, but when you it is in their best interests slowing down the process, you assume intentionally done. Usually travel and booking sites I think are guilty of this.
Quote: RSWhen you're at a restaurant and waitress asks if you'd like a refill / more soda (or whatever you're drinking), you say yes, AND THEY TAKE AWAY YOUR GLASS TO GO FILL IT UP. WTF.
I probably shouldn't complain about the wait staff who overchecks to see how you're doing every couple minutes, because it's still better than the ones you're scouting the horizon for to see if they returned from smoke break or wherever they are hiding.
Cost me and Mrs. Axel $42 to Valet in New Orleans, we felt no shame not tipping.Quote: SOOPOOI just stayed at a very nice golf/tennis resort near Tampa. They would not allow me to park my own car. In addition to the expected tip for the valet, the hotel charged for valet parking.
Quote: AxelWolfMrs. Axel
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Quote: AxelWolfCost me and Mrs. Axel $42 to Valet in New Orleans, we felt no shame not tipping.
Mrs. Axel?
Quote: northface80Definitely makes my list. I would also add:
1) People who consistently use double negatives.
The other day someone said to me, "That don't make no nevermind." It took me a moment to process it!
In the chess world the move "en passant" is pronounced by almost everyone as though it is English. It's French!
1) People who say "I seen" instead of "I saw." For example: "I seen a good movie on TV last night."
2) People who use the word "typical" when describing something that could not be more atypical. This bothers me exponentially more than people who misuse the word "literally." Most often seen in political conversations. For example: "Another mass shooting. Typical liberal." If that was a "typical liberal" then there would be millions of mass shootings every single day.
3) Men who wear sandals and/or flip flops out in public in non-water related situations. I don't care how hot it is, men should always wear shoes, period. (This is culturally dependent; I'm mostly talking about Americans/Westerners.)
4) People who wear black socks with anything other than business clothes or dress clothes. It looks like you're too lazy to do the laundry.
Quote: TigerWu
3) Men who wear sandals and/or flip flops out in public in non-water related situations. I don't care how hot it is, men should always wear shoes, period. (This is culturally dependent; I'm mostly talking about Americans/Westerners.)
You must not live where temperatures of 110 degrees are normal in the summer. I would wear sandals at all times if my employers allowed it. There is also the practical matter of not having to wash socks.
Quote: RSWhen people name their pets people names. Like cmon, "Charles", "Christopher", "Shaniqua", or "Anthony" aren't dog names.....they're people names.
How about people who name their cats or small dogs something like "Nacho" or "Taco" or "Peaches" - and then feel chagrined and traumatized when a coyote eats them?
I think they would feel something and the same, regardless. Pets deserve better than human names? Come to think of it, we should call this thread, human peeves.Quote: gordonm888How about people who name their cats or small dogs something like "Nacho" or "Taco" or "Peaches" - and then feel chagrined and traumatized when a coyote eats them?
Not just your run of the mill ignoramuses either. You'll see people on cnn say it. Highly paid ignoramuses.
Quote: AxelWolfCost me and Mrs. Axel $42 to Valet in New Orleans, we felt no shame not tipping.
The valet isn't making the $42. His boss is. The plan is to gouge you as a way of eating into tips, so he gets it all. Not tipping isn't rebelling against the scheme, it is cooperating with it.
If you wanted to get back at the person who charged you $42 you should have stolen a bunch of towels.
Well, call me an ignoramus, but sometimes it does, depending on what is meant by "raises the question (or problem)". I think that what begs an answer is, why did so many of them here misuse momentarily to the extent that it now means also momently?Quote: RigondeauxPeople who say "that begs the question" to mean "that raises the question."
Not just your run of the mill ignoramuses either. You'll see people on cnn say it. Highly paid ignoramuses.
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Very common in Texas. Even used in movie: No Place For Old Men.Quote: MoscaThe other day someone said to me, "That don't make no nevermind." It took me a moment to process it!
I once saw a man wearing home-made flip flops derived from an automobile tire. He did the AT and PCT in them. Or should I say "I once seen ...".
Shoes? Gout sufferers do not wear shoes. Indeed, these Australian flip flops that lack a toe strap or heel strap are the best things ever. You just stand on them for about thirty seconds and they stick to your feet.
4) People who wear black socks
wear socks???? Why? I ain't worn socks for ten years.
>> It looks like you're too lazy to do the laundry.
Well, I guess I am. I'm still waiting for that sixteen yearold nudist to show up and do the cooking, cleaning and laundry. Meanwhile the dishes and laundry sure are piling up. Please tell her to hurry.
My reward was an almost crippling case of Plantar Fascistis. one that took months to recover from and which literally made me want to stay in bed all day.
My podiatrist said that it almost certainly came from wearing moccasins on such a regular basis.
Haven't worn them in years and my feet are back to normal.
Quote: InTimeForSpace1Well, call me an ignoramus, but sometimes it does, depending on what is meant by "raises the question (or problem)". I think that what begs an answer is, why did so many of them here misuse momentarily to the extent that it now means also momently?
still trying to figure you out, ITFS1
the problem with "begs the question" is that it is from a very old expression - in modern English now two of the words, 'beg' and 'question', no longer have the same meaning. Unfortunately, the expression survives in certain academic circles to mean essentially "that is a circular argument". So, if you want to ask why it isn't OK to have a new meaning to the expression, you have the problem that the old meaning still exists and you look extremely foolish using it.
As for figuring you out, you have joked about being a bot, something that I think a computer would never do. So this seems to be really you at times, and at other times something very strange. Your remarks don't look quite right, as if maybe you speak little English and you use some sort of translation. Example: citing the difference between 'momentarily' and 'momently'. Your citation is correct in that there is a difference in meaning, but I would have to say it is nuts to claim that the former is used a lot when the supposed miscreant should have said the latter. Are you really serious?
My current guess is that you are not a bot but are using translations. However, the strangeness of your posts leaves me puzzled. Sincerely.
Quote: DRichYou must not live where temperatures of 110 degrees are normal in the summer. I would wear sandals at all times if my employers allowed it. There is also the practical matter of not having to wash socks.
It regularly gets up to about 100 in the summer where I live. Still wear socks and shoes. And I briefly lived in the desert where it hit 120 in the summer. Wore socks and boots every day.
Quote: RigondeauxPeople who say "that begs the question" to mean "that raises the question."
Not just your run of the mill ignoramuses either. You'll see people on cnn say it. Highly paid ignoramuses.
I understand why people are bothered by that, but it still makes grammatical sense...
"It is what it is," [grinds teeth] To which I respond, "Sure, but I remember when it was what it used to be."
Single handle anti-scald (cold first) shower controls. I'd use one third less water if I could reduce the pressure. Instead I bathe in fear of being hit by a shower head flying off at fastball speed and worry about an injection wound from the needle-like streams of water.
"Giving Back" When used as a marketing incentive.
…and just today, the DMV, or any entity with rigid rules or policies that doesn't understand when I won't sign paperwork with incorrect information on it.
You ought to still be trying to figure out every thing you came across.Quote: odiousgambitstill trying to figure you out, ITFS1
The words in question involve definitions. Thirty or forty years ago, the distinction in these dictionary definitions was clear, and emphasized, at the time, in common books dedicated to common English errors and etiquette. It seems to me that the other question involves interpretation rather than definition. All questions are incomplete and problematic. Beyond this, who's to say, off hand, which specific existing connections regarding problems of circularity, etc, from one remark to the next, beg question(s) which follow? In any event, if it doesn't much matter that the language evolves along with every thing else, then the old and new interpretations (based on new science and levels of thought) ought to be relished and savored. After all, science would have us all believe that no words make a difference next to the math and physics. That there are no simple (philosophical) truths. That all words are then empty definitions, and form nothing but circular arguments. But, were there only one way to say one thing every where all the time, then the verbal languages could not evolve in step with the math and physics, and would cease to exist altogether.Quote: odiousgambitExample: citing the difference between 'momentarily' and 'momently'. Your citation is correct in that there is a difference in meaning, but I would have to say it is nuts to claim that the former is used a lot when the supposed miscreant should have said the latter. Are you really serious?
Okay. Strangeness is a necessary but not sufficient condition for originality. So is an underlying appearance of not knowing where one is headed. I'm somewhat glad that Mission146 didn't get the gist of my question about God/Devil on some level being religion, in the other thread; and instead related it to the work of another. Scientists became so fixated on a "theory of everything", after essentially dismissing and eradicating philosophy in general and religion in specific, that they forgot to first look for the "everything". Is there an "everything"? If so, in some form or redefinition, then it ought to already contain at least a "theory of everything". And, then involve also a theory of theories. We are so busy smashing things apart, to just peer at the answers at the back of an imaginary textbook which hasn't been written yet, that we forget how to reconstruct them in more meaningful ways. Perhaps - I know so - such an overall "theory" should show how to, eg, reconcile which version of Quantum Mechanics with which versions of the others, but not with just the Relativity Theory.Quote: odiousgambitMy current guess is that you are not a bot but are using translations. However, the strangeness of your posts leaves me puzzled. Sincerely.
Quote: DRichWhen someone says that something is "very unique".
Or that they will give 110% effort, or are committed 110% to a goal.
Quote: billryanI went about four years wearing moccasins and sandals pretty much every day.
My reward was an almost crippling case of Plantar Fascistis.
Socks were invented to keep the shoe
from causing blisters on your feet. They
absorb moisture, make walking more
comfortable. I wear slippers around
the house and I always notice how much
much better my feet feel in a proper
pair of shoes when I go outside. Arch
support is always a good thing.
A caveat here being that if your original effort was zero...
1. Ploppies or dealers saying "10s come in pair" BS! It's completely random
2. When ploppies deviate from their somewhat basic strategy to "help." I.E. not hitting 12 against a 10 (etc.) to say they're saving the 10s for my double down. I know it doesn't matter in the long run, but it drives me nuts when they act entitled to your win, but not responsible for the loses when they pull stupidity like that.
3. Ploppies thinking a good 3rd baseman makes and breaks the table
Quote: SiegfriedRoyWhen playing blackjack...
1. Ploppies or dealers saying "10s come in pair" BS! It's completely random
2. When ploppies deviate from their somewhat basic strategy to "help." I.E. not hitting 12 against a 10 (etc.) to say they're saving the 10s for my double down. I know it doesn't matter in the long run, but it drives me nuts when they act entitled to your win, but not responsible for the loses when they pull stupidity like that.
3. Ploppies thinking a good 3rd baseman makes and breaks the table
There are other players at the table? I've never noticed.
Quote: billryanThere are other players at the table? I've never noticed.
Sure there is. The Big Player.
Quote: IbeatyouracesSure there is. The Big Player.
Quote: EvenBobCasinos go to great lengths to hide what they really are,
greedy places that want to bleed you dry. So they put the
best possible spin on everything.
Player: I was thinking, coach, maybe I should go ahead and smack a three-run homer to put us two runs ahead. He's hanging his curveball today, I can send this over the fences, may I go ahead with that?
Coach: No, I can't let you go ahead with that. I really think it would be better if we lose today.
Player: Wait, what?
Coach: We've won four in a row and our opponents are on a six game skid. I feel really bad for them. I'm sorry, but I just can't let you go ahead with that this time.
Quote: beachbumbabsMrs. Axel?
Axel seems to have glossed over this
Quote: ThenWhatHappens
"It is what it is," [grinds teeth] To which I respond, "Sure, but I remember when it was what it used to be."
This is a fine expression of Popeye-esque wisdom.
Quote: Mission146I can't stand everything being called a, "Go ahead," score because I think that is a stupid phrase. I understand that it means a score that a team has to take the lead after being down, but it should be called just that, "Score to take the lead." What is, 'Go ahead,' to take the lead? As opposed to what, losing?
"Go ahead" is not usually used until the player that could potentially score the lead-taking run is already on base.
