Pet Peeves/Little Loves Thread

[Dice]

It's fun to b**** about things together. But also, balance it out so you don't look too whiney.

Pet Peeves
= People who Don't swing their arms when they walk. It just looks weird and it's unethical (swinging arms uses little energy and helps kinetic movement; it actually takes more effort to walk when you don't swing your arms)
= Smoking in a closed environment (go outside or open a window!)
= People who don't clean the seat they use in public toilers (um, EW)
= Litter (the fact people leave cups on the shelves of my store is so stupid, there's two garbages 15 ft from either direction you leave our store)
= Uncomfortable/Itchy clothes -- this should be illegal, why do you want itchy clothes??!
= Moustaches on Men <30. ...I just don't feel it works.
= Fake glasses; I guess because I'm stuck with them, I don't get why someone would want fashion based on them...but that's just me


Little Loves
= Poochies
= Snow/Rain fall
= Breaking ice
= Staying awake/hungry a long time then *finally* sleeping/eating.
= Playing with Sand (so smooth)
= New Videogame Smell (or just going home with one)
= I'm like a dog; I love to smell things
= Squishy French Fries
= Fountain Coke > Regular Coke (watered down > too sugary n sweet)
= Squishing noodles with my lips
= Heavy lifting or physical work (as a testament to MY WOMANLY STRENGTH)
= Bad Arguments (I love fighting customers about policy in better structured arguments than they try to get away with).
= The MOMENT after the last final exam
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[Ryuuka of the 7th Flame]

[Ruin]

peeves:

Brittas
gifs that Britta uses
cynics
clinics
b*tches
snitches
witches
liches
people who rhyme too much
hypocrites
blacks
gays
whites
straights
straits
wordplay
traps
reverse traps
klap-traps
mouse traps
k-pop
j-pop
a-pop
soda pop
and United States Foreign Policy

loves:

food
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[Xhakum]

Pet peeves:
repetitive sounds like tapping
coughing, sneezing, loud chewing
entitlement, immaturity, ungratefulness and selfishness
lies that serve no purpose
broken promises
bad commercials
lots of other random stuff

little loves:
finding cool rocks at train tracks
getting an idea for a character while I'm half asleep
my cats being cute
finding old games at thrift stores
roasted red peppers, tomatoes with feta
old shows like match game
monster trucks
collecting cards, cat figures, games
nice gestures like bringing back a coffee when I didn't ask for one
online friends
being able to fall asleep

[Jean-Sébastien]

I'll only list 1

I'm flattered when I see English bussinesses using French words, but could you use them correctly please?

Entree does NOT mean main meal. A 12 ounces steak is not an entree.

An entree is what you take to start your meal. A soup is an entree. A few pieces of bread is an entree. Unless you're Micheal Phelps, entree does not mean main meal.

Entree = Entrance. It's the beggining.

[Dede]

Since when do English restaurants use entree for meal??? Also Jean, it`s an English word, too.

Speaking of food, I HATE the sound of someone chewing.

[Jean-Sébastien]

In my own experience, it is very common. Both in United States and Western Canada.

[Conn]

Pet Peeves:

- Misuse of "irony", of "epic", of "literally": And the resulting slow but gradual destruction of some very useful words in favour of making them synonyms of words we already have. Doubly annoying because none of these words are particularly difficult concepts to grasp.

- Grocer's apostrophe's: Because the writer clearly has no idea what they are doing. Similarly, "it's" versus "its".

- "Emo", "hipster", "casual gamer", etc: All terms that may once have had a concrete meaning but have since lost it to become a catch-all insult for anything the speaker doesn't like. Seeing any of these words used is a surefire way for me to completely disregard a person's opinion.

- "true fan": Placing fans into tiers is ridiculously elitist, and brings up some hilarious implications— if there are "true" fans, are the others "false" fans?

- Casual use of mental disorders: Liking organisation does not equal OCD.

- "check please": why do you expect to be paid for eating food

- Gratuitous foreign language: Not loanwords (which I am fine with), but using foreign words that have perfectly-good local equivalents for no reason other than "cool" factor. Infuriatingly common in anime, both in the original script and fansubs… and probably a reason I don't bother watching many shows. That said, I'll admit I slip into this sometimes.

- Complaints that "indie" is a vague and inaccurate genre label: I agree, but it's hardly any worse than eg grunge, krautrock, shoegaze, stoner rock, post rock, futurebeats, chillwave. Terrible genre names are just something one has to roll with.

- Complaints that "gameplay" is an improper, nonsensical word: English language has a long and proud history of distilling long-winded concepts into singular words, like "landlocked"; "gameplay" is merely another addition to the list. This is an aspect of the language that should be celebrated, considering the alternative (the French form of landlocked is "country without access to the sea").

- The idea that Canadian history starts in 1867: Canada, as a country, does, but Canadian history can be dated back to 1814, 1784, 1763, or even 1524, depending on one's viewpoint. Something I've encountered a lot in the last year thanks to the War of 1812 celebrations…

Little Loves:

- Wordplay: There is no pun too groan-worthy for me to appreciate.
- internal pluralisation, especially bizarre ones
- Various smells: rain, freshly-cut grass, new plastic
- Holographic covers
- Snow fall, partly because it's rare where I live and partly because it reminds me of my birthplace
- The colours of the sky during sunset
- Deeply-knotted wood
- popping bubble wrap

If you ever doubted that I am a dull, dull man, I think my obsession with linguistics should dispel any doubt
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[Jean-Sébastien]

[Taiyz]

[Arn]

Pet peeves:

Stretched earlobes: Please stop, it's ridiculous, some people have ones that you can pass sausages throught it and they won't notice

EMOs: Ok they are mostly rich kids, they can have everything they want and still complain, this's not a disorder either I have plenty of psychologic disorder and I'm not in any damn scene

Spoiled kids: "OMG dad didn't give me and iPhone/car/etc". Please kill yourself also kids who use blackmail to have things.

People who compare Street Fighter with Mortal Kombat, they are completly distincts games why would people compare them?

Tattooed faces: Damn you, it's ridiculous you can tattoo every **** part of your body but please not the face.

Crazy religious people

Favelas

Little loves:

Dogs
Discuss and specific game or anime
People who understand your point instead of using ridiculous argument
Whe you know the answer
Food
Cold, rain or both at the same time
Cute/beautiful girls that don't abuse anything to be cute/beautiful
Girls with perfumes
Actually funny yt videos
People doing stupid thing and getting screwed because of it
Tits
Paranoid Parrot meme
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[Soren]

[Conn]

[Tenshigami]

Pet peeves:

Having your music up so loud through your headphones that I can hear it almost perfectly - you're ruining your ears and defeating the purpose of headphones at the same time, moron!

My own typos - I'm completely fine with other people's typos though. But when I notice my own it's like "Ack! Correct yourself this instant!"

Abuse of internet/texting shorthand. I'm okay with plenty of classic shorthand like 'lol' and its variants, but when the keystrokes saved don't seem worth it, it bugs me. This includes 'u' for 'you', and 'o' for 'oh' (you just saved yourself one keystroke, genius!) One acronym that I have hated for well over a decade just on general principle: OIC for "Oh I See." I find that one completely obnoxious, as I do any acronyms that form a sentence or phrase when you say them out loud.

Many more that aren't worth mentioning.

Little loves:

Cats

Falling asleep to the sound of the rain.

The "save the world" trope. It's a very tired plot device but I've always had a soft spot for it. Though I suppose this one is more of a "guilty pleasure"?
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[Zacewing]

Pet peeves:

Slow computers
Slow internet
People who don't clean up after themselves in public restrooms
Facial hair (I'm of the opinion that <5% of the male population doesn't look gross with it)
Cigarette smoke
People who are easily offended
Misused apostrophes and capitalization
Spoiled people
Bad parenting
Bad drivers
Crying children (in particular, the ones that scream/squeal when they cry)

Little Loves:

Bubble wrap
Rainfall
Thunderstorms
Hot beverages on an exceptionally cold day (and vice versa)
Cats
Dogs
Food

That's about all I can think of right now.
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