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AlphaKretin posted:When roadwork crews leave signs up dictating that you go at a snails pace for miles because they're working a 100m stretch at a time for an hour every second weekday. There is no one there, no traffic hazard, and sure as hell no reason to slow down right now. Take the drat signs down when you go home and only put them up where they're actually needed at the time! Though I respect how hellish road work is, that crap is the worst. The signs can be pulled when the work is done. I've driven distances as long as 40 miles with the work already completed and the cones and signs still up. No-one on duty. Maybe I just don't understand the process. My favorite pointless road construction story: I once saw a lane coned off with 5 guys standing in a circle around a hole from a pavement blow-out. One of them was poking the hole with a stick they had found. I like to imagine that they weren't on break and this was literally their job.
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Tiggum posted:The phrase "curling up with a book". It just sounds horrendously uncomfortable. When I read a book, I sit in a chair or lie on a couch. There's no curling involved. Where dos the curling come from? What's curled? It's honestly like fingernails on blackboard to me. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over. But it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that, Tiggum?
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Tiggum posted:The phrase "curling up with a book". It just sounds horrendously uncomfortable. When I read a book, I sit in a chair or lie on a couch. There's no curling involved. Where dos the curling come from? What's curled? It's honestly like fingernails on blackboard to me. Some people like to sit on a couch with their knees bent up.
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Tiggum posted:The phrase "curling up with a book". It just sounds horrendously uncomfortable. When I read a book, I sit in a chair or lie on a couch. There's no curling involved. Where dos the curling come from? What's curled? It's honestly like fingernails on blackboard to me. My favorite reading position is sideways in an armchair. It's just cozy being supported on all sides and it helps me focus. I don't have to worry about what my limbs are doing, whereas if I try to read sitting upright I wind up shifting around constantly.
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Today some rear end in a top hat tried to get in the express lane with an entire cart full of items, during the dinner rush. When the cashier told her (politely) to go away, she came down to my line, tried to cut in front of someone else, and then complained about how horrible our customer service was. poo poo like "this isn't even a discount grocery store, it's expensive! Even at Safeway, if you accidentally get in the express line, they'll ring you up anyway!" and "this is just the worst customer service, I can't believe this" as if it would've been better customer service to hold up a line of 10 people just trying to buy their loving burritos. The express lanes are very clearly marked, and they're those super tiny registers where the cashier has no room to move or bag anything, and the counter has MAYBE 1.5 square feet of space. Ringing up and bagging a bunch of items on those lovely nightmare sardine-can registers takes 10x longer than it does on a normal lane, like it is obviously not meant to ring up more than a simple lunch or dinner order! I don't understand why people try to do this!
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Inspector 34 posted:^^^Oh god that's the absolute worst. A few years ago I had this situation: Haha, I'm also 30. The mutual friend in question was like 34/35. You'd think people would figure out that sort of social situation by then.
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Oh my god Laura and Nancy are so into you! 
Ok, that's cool
Neither I guess. They're both nice but I'm not really interested in dating either of them.
No, I don't. I told you I'm not interested.
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"But there's space in your garage?? I went down there and I counted TEN spaces!!" That's real super loving neato but those ten spaces belong to ten people with parking passes who are out of the garage at the moment and will probably be back later WHICH IS WHY I CAN'T JUST loving LET YOU INTO THE GARAGE BECAUSE THEN THERE WOULDN'T BE ENOUGH SPACES FOR EVERYONE YOU IDIOT
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Nettles Coterie posted:"if you accidentally get in the express line", "Accidentally," sure. quote:Ringing up and bagging a bunch of items on those lovely nightmare sardine-can registers takes 10x longer than it does on a normal lane, like it is obviously not meant to ring up more than a simple lunch or dinner order! I don't understand why people try to do this! Because they're more important than everybody else, didn't you know that? It's their world, you should be grateful for the opportunity to exist within it.
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"hello i'd like to book a room starting tonight for two weeks WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T HAVE ANY ROOMS AVAILABLE THIS IS BULLSHIT AAAAAAAAAAAAA"
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People who refuse to learn new skills related to their position at their jobs, especially technology skills.
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Jul 23, 2016 19:43
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Nettles Coterie posted:Today some rear end in a top hat tried to get in the express lane with an entire cart full of items, during the dinner rush. When the cashier told her (politely) to go away, she came down to my line, tried to cut in front of someone else, and then complained about how horrible our customer service was. poo poo like "this isn't even a discount grocery store, it's expensive! Even at Safeway, if you accidentally get in the express line, they'll ring you up anyway!" and "this is just the worst customer service, I can't believe this" as if it would've been better customer service to hold up a line of 10 people just trying to buy their loving burritos. The express lanes are very clearly marked, and they're those super tiny registers where the cashier has no room to move or bag anything, and the counter has MAYBE 1.5 square feet of space. Ringing up and bagging a bunch of items on those lovely nightmare sardine-can registers takes 10x longer than it does on a normal lane, like it is obviously not meant to ring up more than a simple lunch or dinner order! I don't understand why people try to do this! Customer service is hell. I'm worried that if I have to pick up a retail job again, that one day I'll just snap on some narcissistic twat and beat him to death with a jar of pasta sauce.
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A White Guy posted:Customer service is hell. I'm worried that if I have to pick up a retail job again, that one day I'll just snap on some narcissistic twat and beat him to death with a jar of pasta sauce. Mmm, I'm pretty sure you're thinking of Law Enforcement
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A White Guy posted:Customer service is hell. I'm worried that if I have to pick up a retail job again, that one day I'll just snap on some narcissistic twat and beat him to death with a jar of pasta sauce. Years later, and I still have nightmares about waiting tables. In the last one, a bunch of the annoying regulars from the place I worked were hanging out in my house demanding I feed them. I woke up panicky and miserable.
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AlphaKretin posted:When roadwork crews leave signs up dictating that you go at a snails pace for miles because they're working a 100m stretch at a time for an hour every second weekday. There is no one there, no traffic hazard, and sure as hell no reason to slow down right now. Take the drat signs down when you go home and only put them up where they're actually needed at the time! I respect road work crews and the like, what with being out in the hot sun laying down hot asphalt and concrete with the hazards of traffic, but I agree with this sentiment completely. It's not a "construction zone" if there's no construction crew doing construction, so gently caress off with that 25 mph speed limit on a road that's usually 50 mph. Same thing with school zones. By all means have them, but only before and after school when children are outside of school grounds. If school is in session, put the crosswalk signs away. Crow Jane posted:Years later, and I still have nightmares about waiting tables. In the last one, a bunch of the annoying regulars from the place I worked were hanging out in my house demanding I feed them. I woke up panicky and miserable. I always give big tips to my server when they are dealing with another table full of lovely people. I sometimes like to think they don't go home as miserable after I commend them on their job and give them more than the usual tip. You Are A Werewolf has a new favorite as of 23:34 on Jul 23, 2016 |
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It costs a whole bunch of money to close a road or a bit of a road, they wouldn't be doing it if it wasn't necessary Seriously so much money. You don't want them to be opening bits of road with parts people might hit a huge hole or a bit of unset surfacing or a person, they're not doing out of laziness
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I'm talking about when the work occurs inside of Jersey barriers and the like, separate from the road, not with cones and such. Also, when it's a super large project like widening a road or freeway or putting in a new overpass that takes two + years, not filling potholes or doing sewer work and other minor projects. I don't mind the small stuff because it's gotta get done, and it's only temporary and a minor inconvenience by a day or two, week at the most.
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I dunno I'm not in libertarian America but here there are safety laws and poo poo that need to be obeyed and it costs them money every second a footpath or road is obstructed. You're allowed to be annoyed, my route to work is like 15% roadworks rn and we're just done with a 4 year road widening thing so yeah it sucks but it's necessary! Oh hey a totally unrelated pet peeve of mine is people not understanding safety is important
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queserasera posted:People who refuse to learn new skills related to their position at their jobs, especially technology skills. Tying to this - people that are willing to learn new skills, but have a ton of extra work dumped on them because other people refuse to learn it. Case in point at my job, we have 2 people that we consider "Mac experts" and once our support desk found out, they dumped almost all their tickets on those 2 guys. Wasn't until management got involved that it stopped and they were told to do their job, ask questions and learn something instead of offloading their work on someone else and laughing at Facebook videos half the day.
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One peeve of mine is morning people/early birds who brag about how early they get up and are super smug and self-righteous about it. Stop trying to invite yourself over at 8 am on a Sunday, please. I get it, you've already been up for hours and I'm just so lazy. gently caress off with that poo poo!
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genetic_knockout posted:One peeve of mine is morning people/early birds who brag about how early they get up and are super smug and self-righteous about it. Stop trying to invite yourself over at 8 am on a Sunday, please. I get it, you've already been up for hours and I'm just so lazy. gently caress off with that poo poo! I'd never brag about it, but it is pretty annoying when your friends' days start at like 11am+ (barring weird sleep schedules due to work). Really if you're an adult out of college there's no reason to get up after 9 on a regular basis. Likewise, don't bitch at me for going to sleep at 10-11pm (at least on work nights). What's so great about the middle of the night? The pre-dawn/dawn time of day is much nicer.
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You sound exactly like the type of person I was bitching about 
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genetic_knockout posted:You sound exactly like the type of person I was bitching about It's just a fact, not something I'm "super smug and self-righteous" about - if you sleep through half of the day obviously you're not going to be included in half of peoples' plans. The people asking you to do things in the morning are trying to include you and hope you'll break out of your goony staying up all night schedule. It's something that drives me nuts when people come to visit me from back in the US - they fly thousands of miles, spend over a grand getting here and sleep on my couch until almost noon. Unless your idea of a vacation is getting dinner and then going to a bar for the rest of the night every day, that schedule leaves you with basically no time to actually do anything. I'm not going to hide in my room in my own apartment to accomodate you, I'm going to get up at a reasonable time like 7-8am and make coffee and breakfast and get ready for the day. vvv: for the first day or two, sure, but most people power through it on vacations. yeah I eat ass has a new favorite as of 19:11 on Jul 24, 2016 |
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Jet lag is a thing, you know.
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Who gives a poo poo how long people sleep in? People function on different hours. I could say the same of you wasting the hours of 10pm-1am sleeping. Unless you're going on some full day excursion somewhere, there's really no reason to do anything before noon. Edit: Honestly, I think it's pretty rude to force your guests who are on vacation to get up early and go to bed early. Don't let people stay with you if you don't want to have fun with them. lidnsya has a new favorite as of 00:45 on Jul 25, 2016 |
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Murphy Brownback posted:It's just a fact, not something I'm "super smug and self-righteous" about - if you sleep through half of the day obviously you're not going to be included in half of peoples' plans. The people asking you to do things in the morning are trying to include you and hope you'll break out of your goony staying up all night schedule. Lol, I like how you are trying to pretend like there nothing to do anywhere from 12pm to 3am to make yourself feel better about going to bed on an old person schedule. Congratulations on enjoying the morning and being "better" than people who function better at night even though daytime other than dawn to dusk is a complete social construction.
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genetic_knockout posted:You sound exactly like the type of person I was bitching about Hi there, late rise buddy! It is very fun to enjoy quiet nights in by myself reading and writing, or go party until 4am because I don't turn into a pumpkin at 10pm. 
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lidnsya posted:Who gives a poo poo how long people sleep in? People function on different hours. I could say the same of you wasting the hours of 10pm-1am sleeping. Unless you're going on some full day excursion somewhere, there's really no reason to do anything before noon. A lot of touristy stuff closes here at 5-6pm. It really does limit you to like one thing a day (considering that by the time they get up, get showered/dressed, have "breakfast" etc you're not heading out til ~1:30-2 pm). And I never said I don't let them sleep in. I don't go stomping around the house throwing dishes around, I just said I'm going to make breakfast and coffee and go about my day while I wait for them, not lay in bed staring at the ceiling trying to follow their schedule. It's possible to pour a bowl of cereal and put on a pot of coffee and dick around on my computer without waking someone up. There's nothing wrong with "night life" and enjoying it, it's part of travelling, but if that's the main focus of your trip you're missing out on a lot of things. Besides, this is the "pet peeve" thread, I'm allowed to be annoyed at things most people wouldn't find annoying. I don't like wasting daylight sitting/laying around inside, that's all, there's no superiority about it, it's just a preference. e: and it honestly wouldn't be that big of an annoyance if they didn't do what you people are doing wh en they ask how long I've been awake and go on a "why not sleep in? what are you, an old?" etc rant. yeah I eat ass has a new favorite as of 06:21 on Jul 25, 2016 |
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I know this may come as quite a shock, but not everyone who goes on vacation wants to spend all their time doing touristy bullshit.
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I'm a morning person too (though my inconsistent work schedule fucks it all up) and my pet peeve is kind of the inverse of Murphy's: I hate when I stay over at someone else's house and they sleep in super late. Meanwhile I'm awake by 7, but don't want to be a weirdo and mess around with their stuff when they're asleep, so I usually end up laying on the couch/bed dicking around on my phone until they get up. If I drink at a friend's party and end up crashing there, I'm ALWAYS the creep who slinks out before anyone else is even remotely awake, which is fine. But if I'm staying there because we're supposed to do something the next day, I get so loving impatient wasting 4 hours of my life waiting for them to start their day at 11 or later. Especially if I'm within driving distance, just loving have me drive up in the morning instead of spending an awkward, uncomfortable night and morning trying to sleep on your cat-fur-covered couch and waiting for your rear end! But that's also connected to another massive pet peeve of mine, which is that my group of friends can't loving manage their time properly AT ALL. We'll make plans to go out of town for the day, decide to leave at 9, so they insist we should spend the night before in the same place so we can have a nice early start. Oh, and while we're in *other town*, we should definitely get together with Ted! AND there's this museum we should check out, and a really good restaurant, and 5 other things we just HAVE to pack into this day trip. Then the day comes, they don't get out of bed til 11, take over an hour to get ready, then we need to stop by the store for drinks and snacks, oh and there's this nice coffee shop right around the corner that we should swing by, etc. etc. so we don't even really get on the road until loving 3:30, then once we get there they complain that we don't have time to do everything they had planned. WHOSE loving FAULT IS THAT, YOU SHITNUGGETS?
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Have a light dinner and try to avoid alcohol. Then when you wake up you're starving and can't wait to eat.
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DarkCrawler posted:I just hate waking up, no matter what the time of day is Pet peeve: people who like to wake up
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Any time someone says 'oh we have plenty of time' to get somewhere by a certain time and then proceeds to gently caress around until we very much don't have plenty of time. I was at a friend's house over the weekend, and I had to get to the airport at around 3:30 to catch a flight. I am already nervous about any form of appointment and making sure I get there on time, but flights are the worst because I live in terror of being stuck somewhere. I appreciate that he was taking time out of his day to drive me to the airport, but he'd committed to do so two days ago, yet by the time he was done loving around and we left, it was 20 to 4. When I got there, they'd just closed the flight and I only got to check in because the ground staff took pity on me. The whole time I was waiting to leave I was getting more and more stressed about it, I'd already pointedly put my shoes on and kept saying we should really get going, but nope we got plenty of time just chill. Supplementary complaints: -People walking their dogs off leash and just yelling 'Oh don't worry he/she's friendly' at me after their dog comes charging up to me. Same people who say they can control their dogs, but just end up yelling ineffectually while their dog runs off into the road or some poo poo. -People pulling into the end of a merging lane to try and zoom ahead and then force their way in at peak hour. Or people who just refuse to leave a gap for anyone else because being one more car length ahead is vitally important. Basically any situation involving merging, Australians are useless. They need big signs showing people that the best way to do it is alternating cars from each lane, like a zip, or signs saying 'trying to push in like an rear end in a top hat actually slows everyone, including you, down because you're loving up the flow and making other people brake for you'.
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Ten Becquerels posted:Any time someone says 'oh we have plenty of time' to get somewhere by a certain time and then proceeds to gently caress around until we very much don't have plenty of time. I was at a friend's house over the weekend, and I had to get to the airport at around 3:30 to catch a flight. I am already nervous about any form of appointment and making sure I get there on time, but flights are the worst because I live in terror of being stuck somewhere. I appreciate that he was taking time out of his day to drive me to the airport, but he'd committed to do so two days ago, yet by the time he was done loving around and we left, it was 20 to 4. When I got there, they'd just closed the flight and I only got to check in because the ground staff took pity on me. The whole time I was waiting to leave I was getting more and more stressed about it, I'd already pointedly put my shoes on and kept saying we should really get going, but nope we got plenty of time just chill. If I'm going somewhere and want to be there at a certain time, I'll plan to be ten minutes early and plan to be ready to leave the house ten minutes early, and people who don't do this annoy the poo poo out of me. My sister and her boyfriend are the worst; they leave no margin for error and they're never ready when they think they will be, so going anywhere with them you end up leaving late, and then if anything goes wrong on the way you're even later. How loving difficult is it to be on time?
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I too, hate people who can't manage their time. Add they never, ever see the point in being early
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Sociopastry posted:I too, hate people who can't manage their time. Add they never, ever see the point in being early It's because they want to be able to make some dumbass comment about how they're just "fashionably late" and say "come on, nobody actually shows up on time" while rolling their eyes like it's the lamest thing in the world to show up on time/early.
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I had a couple friends like that. My wife and I throw the annual holiday party for our group of friends, since we're the only ones with a house. We've learned over years of doing this that these two friends need to be told a start time an hour before anybody else invited, because they routinely show up an hour and a half late to anything. Yeah. An hour and a half. One time a party started at 8, and we made the mistake of telling them 8. Finally, at 9 one of the two shows up (from ten minutes away), and then immediately leaves to get something from a grocery store (five minutes away). 45 minutes later, he comes back. Shortly after that, the second friend finally arrives. During this time, we no-poo poo had some guests that arrived, had some drinks, met some people, played some games, had some nice conversations, and then split off to do their own thing somewhere else. And they still hadn't shown up yet. Then they're there way way past the time everybody else has left. Another terrible one was when all my HS friends were all in town for an alumni function, and it was suggested I fire up the grill and make some food for after. I get beer, I get food, I build a fire and start the grill around a few minutes before I expect people to show up. By the time they actually DO show up, I've had to build the fire up again, put another chimney of charcoal in the grill, and now we're cooking and eating in the dark with only the fire and tea lights for light. Romantic, if you're not trying to cook burgers and hot dogs for twenty.
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