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I have a ton of creatively-oriented friends, so I end up listening to a fair amount of spoken poetry, and the one thing that annoys me more than anything is "Poet Voice". I can't tell you how many great (or merely good) poems are ruined by poets using this awkward performance style. http://www.cityartsonline.com/articles/stop-using-poet-voice
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bean_shadow posted:I have the same problem. Apple earbuds stay in but tend to hurt. It's difficult to find the old earbuds, the ones that were flat and round and didn't have rubber. So I've been using headphones. I am a tiny-eared person who can not use the earbuds with the rubber in the middle. There's an FYE that inexplicably still exists near my apartment, and they sell those round earbuds for $10 a pop -- they are a lifesaver.
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Riatsala posted:I have a ton of creatively-oriented friends, so I end up listening to a fair amount of spoken poetry, and the one thing that annoys me more than anything is "Poet Voice". Most poets are awful actors.
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Mar 22, 2017 16:42
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Not a peeve per se, but it's really weird being called honey or sweetie by servers, etc. when they are far younger than you are
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YeahTubaMike posted:I am a tiny-eared person who can not use the earbuds with the rubber in the middle. There's an FYE that inexplicably still exists near my apartment, and they sell those round earbuds for $10 a pop -- they are a lifesaver. I think this is what I really need. Everyone keeps crowing about the rubber, "noise canceling" earbuds, and they just don't do it for me. Peeve: why is it that the only songs that get stuck in my head are the ones I hate? It's not that I hate them because they're stuck in my head; I hate the song from the moment I first hear it, then it gets stuck in my head. Which is why it's only ever one or two lyrics that get stuck there, because I never really listen to the whole song.
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genetic_knockout posted:Not a peeve per se, but it's really weird being called honey or sweetie by servers, etc. when they are far younger than you are I don't mind it if they are just being nice, but it drives me insane when they say it in a condescending way when they think they are right about something and want to lecture you about it. Like the "aww sweetie, it's cute how stupid you are" tone.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:I don't mind it if they are just being nice, but it drives me insane when they say it in a condescending way when they think they are right about something and want to lecture you about it. Like the "aww sweetie, it's cute how stupid you are" tone. *in extremely southern voice* Aww bless your heart
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genetic_knockout posted:Not a peeve per se, but it's really weird being called honey or sweetie by servers, etc. when they are far younger than you are not a server, but this is me, sorry. I call everyone and everything "sugar" and "honey". V  V I don't know why I do it, either. Except if I really like you, then I start using the kind of insults you'd hear on a kindergarten playground.
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genetic_knockout posted:Not a peeve per se, but it's really weird being called honey or sweetie by servers, etc. when they are far younger than you are I don't like been referred to by affectionate labels by strangers in general. It seems presumptuous. Maggie Fletcher posted:I think this is what I really need. Everyone keeps crowing about the rubber, "noise canceling" earbuds, and they just don't do it for me. Same here. I bought some a couple of weeks ago and they just haven't turned out to be a worthwhile purchase. I can hear my footsteps with them in, they were only effective in muffling outside noise the first two times using them, and some issue with my left ear means that the left ear bud stops sounding clear the instant I move slightly no matter what position or angle it's inserted. Peeve: Job adverts asking for ambitious candidates, being asked by application forms and interviews to state what achievements make the suitable for the job, or being expected to take pride in work. No one who was actually ambitious would be applying for the type of work I do, it has no room for achievement, nor does it's successful completion merit pride. Getting a lower end job is one thing but the way they try to lower your standards is disgusting.....and unnecessary. Just because I'm not impressed by the ability to sort things in alphabetical order that doesn't mean I'm less inclined to do it properly.
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Riatsala posted:I have a ton of creatively-oriented friends, so I end up listening to a fair amount of spoken poetry, and the one thing that annoys me more than anything is "Poet Voice". Yeah, I'm with you on this
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I don't mind being called those things at all, really (except obviously in situations where it's done really condescendingly, like Mr. rear end-Eater pointed out). It's just I normally expect it to come from like...an older, kindly Mom-type person. Not someone who looks like they just graduated high school. Anyways, way better than being called ma'm or lady or that poo poo.
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Mar 22, 2017 22:37
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genetic_knockout posted:Not a peeve per se, but it's really weird being called honey or sweetie by servers, etc. when they are far younger than you are In Southwest England they call you "my lover", which is a bit odd the first time you hear it when paying for petrol.
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Mar 22, 2017 22:57
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That sort of thing bothers me because I'm not their honey or their sweetie. They're not my wife, y'know?
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Mar 22, 2017 23:07
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Stoatbringer posted:In Southwest England they call you "my lover", which is a bit odd the first time you hear it when paying for petrol. Yorkshire can be like this. I worked a pub in Leeds many years ago and being called "love" or "darling" by older men who looked like they ran with the Krays was slightly surprising, especially being a man myself.
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YeahTubaMike posted:I am a tiny-eared person who can not use the earbuds with the rubber in the middle. There's an FYE that inexplicably still exists near my apartment, and they sell those round earbuds for $10 a pop -- they are a lifesaver. I saw some Sony earbuds that are round at an airport a couple of weeks ago and I bought them, even though I know it's crazy to buy anything in an airport. I was just so excited to come upon some because they're difficult to find anymore.
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bean_shadow posted:I saw some Sony earbuds that are round at an airport a couple of weeks ago and I bought them, even though I know it's crazy to buy anything in an airport. I was just so excited to come upon some because they're difficult to find anymore. I have a pair of Sony earbuds that are the old, round style. I bought them at a music store for  a year or two ago and use them every day at work. I've previously had fancy and expensive brands like Klipsch but they eventually fall apart while the cheap Sonys seem like they're basically indestructible.fake edit - These are the earbuds I have
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Mar 23, 2017 03:14
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When you're talking about something even remotely scientific and someone smugly chimes in with how you don't actually like science unless you also read scientific papers. I can appreciate pizza without taking a grain farming course you smug prick let me appreciate the fact that bionic prosthetics are becoming an actually real thing
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Riatsala posted:I have a ton of creatively-oriented friends, so I end up listening to a fair amount of spoken poetry, and the one thing that annoys me more than anything is "Poet Voice". Death Zebra posted:I don't like been referred to by affectionate labels by strangers in general. It seems presumptuous.  Death Zebra posted:Peeve: Job adverts asking for ambitious candidates, being asked by application forms and interviews to state what achievements make the suitable for the job, or being expected to take pride in work. Also when they have questions on the application like "describe a time when you showed leadership" and the job is the absolute lowest rung in the company where you barely even have to interact with another human being, let alone lead anyone.
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Danaru posted:When you're talking about something even remotely scientific and someone smugly chimes in with how you don't actually like science unless you also read scientific papers. I can appreciate pizza without taking a grain farming course you smug prick let me appreciate the fact that bionic prosthetics are becoming an actually real thing I read the bolded part as "bionic prostitutes" at first and thought, "man, science sure has come a long way."
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Mar 23, 2017 05:32
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Facebook acquaintances who add me to their MLM sales groups. I know where to buy leggings, makeup, and whatever the gently caress else you're selling. I don't want your stupid overpriced MLM crap. Semi-related, I only buy cruelty-free makeup, preferably vegan (I know how loving  that sounds, but it's a personal preference and I stand by it), and they happily tout that lipschmitz or arbonne or whatever the gently caress bullshit makeup they're selling is cruelty-free, when a quick google search proves otherwise. I try to be nice when pointing this out, but they stop listening once they realize they're not making a sale.
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Tiggum posted:I'd generalise it to "reading voice" because some people do it when they're reading anything. There's this sudden and obvious shift when they go from speaking normally to reading aloud and it's really annoying. If you think you don't do this (anybody, not just Tig) try reading a Berenstain bears book to a kid. You might do okay for most of it, but if Papa Bear uses his most serious Papa Bear voice you'll act the poo poo out of that completely involuntarily
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There's a new coworker that's calling everyone "fam". I can forgive the meme, because I think he's a literal, 18-year old baby. But I kind of hate when people act too familiar right away. Be friendly, be confident, be outgoing - but don't pretend I know you. I like what someone said a few posts ago - it's 'presumptuous'.
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Danaru posted:When you're talking about something even remotely scientific and someone smugly chimes in with how you don't actually like science unless you also read scientific papers. I can appreciate pizza without taking a grain farming course you smug prick let me appreciate the fact that bionic prosthetics are becoming an actually real thing If it makes you feel any better most actual scientists I have worked with don't act like this. The only time I would have that attitude is when dealing with crackpots trying to tell me the sun is a solid ball of iron or something. But even then the barrier of being qualified to make suggestions that I would take seriously isn't only reading papers - anyone can do that. You also need your ideas subject to peer review and published. Again though that only applies to smug idiots like you described trying to play at being a scientist without going through any of the education or experience and just want to tell you you're wrong/being paid off to lie about results/whatever. If it's just a layman wanting to talk about a topic on a non-specialist level that's perfectly fine and should be encouraged.
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A server calling you sweetie or honey is never okay. It would be like if I started casually referring to the waitress as "Sugartits" or something.
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areyoucontagious posted:If you think you don't do this (anybody, not just Tig) try reading a Berenstain bears book to a kid. You might do okay for most of it, but if Papa Bear uses his most serious Papa Bear voice you'll act the poo poo out of that completely involuntarily That's different though. I'm talking about the voice some people do when they're reading anything. Stuff like crossword questions or or labels or whatever. There's an "I am reading this aloud" voice that some people have that's different to how they normally speak.
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:A server calling you sweetie or honey is never okay. It would be like if I started casually referring to the waitress as "Sugartits" or something. I ...uh... can't tell if you're just being ironic or not because that is an awful comparison since those two are not anywhere near equivalent.
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:A server calling you sweetie or honey is never okay. It would be like if I started casually referring to the waitress as "Sugartits" or something. You can't be serious. Trying to make a customer feel welcome by using terms of endearment is not even close to the same thing as something like calling them "sugertits". Maybe if they said "i bet you got a huge dick" instead of "sweetie" you'd have a point, but nobody does that.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Maybe if they said "i bet you got a huge dick" instead of "sweetie" you'd have a point, but nobody does that. Not to me they don't 
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Riatsala posted:I have a ton of creatively-oriented friends, so I end up listening to a fair amount of spoken poetry, and the one thing that annoys me more than anything is "Poet Voice". This is legit awful, but nothing -- NOTHING -- is worse than that loving singsong Spoken Word cadence poets (and "poets") use. I was a Creative Writing minor in college and had to listen to hundreds of poems read in that cadence, and it was traumatizing, y'all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD1Q-3KgaOk&t=244s I was ~triggered~ searching for this example, I'll have you know!  E: Stoatbringer posted:In Southwest England they call you "my lover", which is a bit odd the first time you hear it when paying for petrol. I had to email a Korean company's customer service to complain about an order, and their reply began, "Hello my mate." Like...that's a little intimate, Customer Service person who didn't even sign their name. 
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Maggie Fletcher posted:Facebook acquaintances who add me to their MLM sales groups. I know where to buy leggings, makeup, and whatever the gently caress else you're selling. I don't want your stupid overpriced MLM crap. Semi-related, I only buy cruelty-free makeup, preferably vegan (I know how loving What always surprises me is how incredibly positive and supportive nearly all the comments are when people post that stuff. Like, isn't it immediately obvious to anyone else that this is obviously a scam (or at best really seedy)? My cousin posts about some fat-loss shake (that operates using some sort of pseudoscience), and all the replies are "oh!!! I'm so excited to receive my order!!" I think that part of it is that many communities, especially in the South, operate on the basis of reciprocating pseudo-kindness. There's this sort of unstated assumption that if you act really nice to someone they'll act nice to you in return. And there's obviously nothing wrong with being genuinely kind, but the sort of pseudo-kindness you see in many church communities and the like doesn't seem genuine at all. You'd also think that in 2017 people would be familiar with how MLMs work, but somehow they seem to be staying just as popular, if not becoming more popular. I wonder if the bad economy since the recession is encouraging more people to do MLMs as a desperate attempt to have a job better than whatever retail/food service job they'd otherwise be working.
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I'm helping host an event this weekend, and early registration closed Tuesday. Now, you used to get a free meal (and some extra goodies) with the early reg, but over the past year or two, we had late attendees who donated a lot to the event, so a meal was passed for them. Now the president of the club has said meal for everyone, because we do pizza rather than a sit-down deal, which is fine. But for me, in charge of the printing, I demanded a cutoff, because I am not running to print a new sheet of name badges every day. Though the president wasn't thrilled, he finally agreed. So registration cut Tuesday. Since then the president has updated the attendees every day with 1-2 more names. I am not including these people on any of the goodie bag lists because gently caress you, I specifically TOLD EACH OF YOU TO REGISTER EARLY, and was met with a "meh." It's loving free to come and it helps me count heads and estimate how many drinks we'll need to provide and seating and etc (if we have 100 people preregistered, we pass the list to the hotel, and they set up accordingly. If we have 50, they might set up for 60. Not for 100.), and I just finished packing up all my supplies when I saw 4 new names added to the list. No. No, you idiots who somehow forgot what weekend this event is (and I will be there for 12 hours working it, setting it up, etc) are not getting any of the free poo poo or the nicely printed bags or badges. You get the HELLO MY NAME IS ____ badges I picked up at Walmart, and yes, you will have to fill out a registration form at the door, because I am not unpacking everything to manually set your poo poo up! No, you don't get any of the samples sent by our sponsors, because those are all spoken for and each one has a nice label to a registered person from the sponsor! We advertise for this event back in January! It's on every loving social media there is, we have email lists out, and every year people show up and are surprised when "oh, I need to register to come into a private and secured event?" The same people also get mad at me for making them fill out a form before they can browse in one of the auction rooms, because they don't know if they want to buy or bid on anything, but I need to have everyone assigned their numbers before they can even get into the rooms. Last year we had some happy guy write down a bunch of other people's numbers with super high bids, and then he left the event entirely. It took us over an hour to sort out his poo poo. And no, the person covering my station didn't get his information.
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Tiggum posted:That's different though. I'm talking about the voice some people do when they're reading anything. Stuff like crossword questions or or labels or whatever. There's an "I am reading this aloud" voice that some people have that's different to how they normally speak. Congratulations, you get to listen to Ewan McGregor read high school literature.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Trying to make a customer feel welcome by using terms of endearment In Finland a customer service person doing this would be considered extremely rude, and it would be taken as a sign that you are either a crazy person, or are trying to be insulting on purpose.
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Ytlaya posted:What always surprises me is how incredibly positive and supportive nearly all the comments are when people post that stuff. Like, isn't it immediately obvious to anyone else that this is obviously a scam (or at best really seedy)? My cousin posts about some fat-loss shake (that operates using some sort of pseudoscience), and all the replies are "oh!!! I'm so excited to receive my order!!" A few years back I used to do Insanity, which is a fantastic at-home workout program that happens to be connected to an MLM. I borrowed the DVDs from a friend and didn't participate in the MLM because duh, but I did post on the Insanity page once about how much I liked the workouts. Cue half a dozen "beachbody coaches" trying to recruit me. One of them was particularly friendly, adding me on facebook and chatting about my progress. I like fitness and was happy to talk to her about it, but politely made it clear I wasn't interested in becoming a "coach" or participating in the MLM. She immediately went defensive, saying it's "not like a real MLM" and "the extra money has really saved us." The following week, she posted about their house going into foreclosure. The economy was poo poo at the time, so perhaps the two weren't related, but I keep wondering how much of the time she spent on the MLM that could've been put toward actual money-making endeavors, or worse, how much money she potentially wasted by "investing" in beachbody.
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Maggie Fletcher posted:The following week, she posted about their house going into foreclosure. The economy was poo poo at the time, so perhaps the two weren't related, but I keep wondering how much of the time she spent on the MLM that could've been put toward actual money-making endeavors, or worse, how much money she potentially wasted by "investing" in beachbody. My friend and his wife lost their house because of Herbalife. But of course it wasn't the company's fault, it was their fault for not trying hard enough. So they packed up all they had (which was basically all unsold herbalife poo poo) and moved back at home, where they still try and offload the stuff and praise the company for giving them a second chance to this day. That's the most annoying thing about their fanatics to me - they defend them religiously even though the evidence that the company is screwing them over is right there in front of their face. It's just sad really how many people hitch their hopes and dreams to things like this and will terminate friendships/relationships with anyone who actually has their best interests in mind, because the company certainly doesn't.
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Does nobody not know how to use their goddamn turn signal anymore?! Flicking it on when you're switching lanes doesn't help when you're already halfway into my lane! And turn your signal on before you slow nearly to the point of stopping to turn, not literally as you're turning! The whole point of the signal is to tell the other cars around you your intent, it's too late if you've basically already done the thing! And that's if they even bother to use their signals at all. Also, I live in a subdivision where a large number of people park on the street instead of their driveway (which in itself is a huge annoyance), but nobody can seem to agree on an etiquette to stick to when two cars need to pass each other. For instance, I'm coming home after work and somebody else is leaving the subdivision at the same time. There is a car parked on the left side of the street. I am on the right side and the other driver is on the left. I do not have an obstruction in my way, so the way I see it they should stop and let me go by first, then they can go around the car after I've passed. But most of the time the other person doesn't stop at all and we both end up doing this veeerrrryyy sloooowwww crawl trying to fit 3 cars into a space only meant to have 2 and not hit each other. Or we both stop because we both think the other isn't going to and we end up in this awkward Red Light Green Light stop-and-go situation idiots at 4-way stops always get themselves into. Am I wrong here? Is there a correct way to do this? Driving these days makes me very mad.
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I think europeans have a system for that kind of thing since their roads are so narrow, but I'm not sure what it is. I know they yield to any traffic coming from their right, but for traffic heading toward each other I'm not sure what the rule is, but they seem to - it happens in front of my apartment every day and there seems to be very little confusion about what each person is expected to do.
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If you're driving down a street and someone is coming towards you then whoever is going to get to the narrow part of the street first has right of way.
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doverhog posted:In Finland a customer service person doing this would be considered extremely rude, and it would be taken as a sign that you are either a crazy person, or are trying to be insulting on purpose. I like Finland. Similarly, the one thing I like about Russia, other than the fact that I don't live there, is their distrust of smiling strangers (from what I've heard). It's a shame the UK is not like this as the job markets demand for friendliness and what they consider "people skills" is doing no favours for my employment prospects. cyberia posted:I have a pair of Sony earbuds that are the old, round style. I bought them at a music store for I think my old earphones are the same model. They certainly look identical albeit grey and black. They lasted several years, far longer than any other pair. Sadly, old, good models keep disappearing. My Sony headphones from early 00's had good enough sound quality, felt incredibly light despite their size, had comfortable fabric ear padding, and a rubber overhead strap. I haven't seen any headphones that look nearly as comfortable for even 10 times the price. Tiggum posted:Also when they have questions on the application like "describe a time when you showed leadership" and the job is the absolute lowest rung in the company where you barely even have to interact with another human being, let alone lead anyone. I despise all questions like this in general for many reasons. Some are simply extraneous like the one you mentioned, some I have the answers to just can't remember or can't articulate, and others I don't have any evidence of but can fulfill by virtue of not being a complete retard. I spent more than an hour the other week trying to explain in vain how I would be a good candidate for a job I could have probably done when I was 11.
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Death Zebra posted:I like Finland. Similarly, the one thing I like about Russia, other than the fact that I don't live there, is their distrust of smiling strangers (from what I've heard). It's a shame the UK is not like this as the job markets demand for friendliness and what they consider "people skills" is doing no favours for my employment prospects. Customer service people are "friendly" or at least polite here too, but they would never call you sweety, darling or honey bunny, etc.
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