You know what really grinds my gears.......
Posted by shelloid on Oct 04, 2009 · Member since Nov 2006 · 4427 posts
Ok so maybe I'm just a weirdo, but there's silly little things that really bug me for no apparent reason - what about the rest of you? Is there any little thing that really annoys you, but probably shouldn't that much?
Ok I'll start:
I hate it when peolpe jiggle their legs up and down when they're sitting down. Some people will do this continually and I HATE IT. There's no logic to my annoyance but it really bugs me.
It also bugs me when women put their make up on on public transport - just wake up earlier if you want to wear it - and don't give people dirty looks when they stare at you.
I love how in each country/continent, if there's any niggling doubts about the validity of said Studies, they place them in another country/continent. I have laughed myself silly hearing the US news claim that "a study in Europe" proves thus and so, when on the French or Spanish news that same study supposedly took place at "a prestigious US university!" No names, of course, so you can't check up on it with a trustworthy source...like, say, Wikipedia. ;D
I've never noticed this. I usually try to ignore them. If I'm interested, I'll read the paper myself.
Well if you don't have access to TV news from several countries on the same day, you wouldn't notice it. DH watches French, French Canadian, American, and Spanish news (Spain, not L. A. spanish) every day. On the French channels they also show news programmes from Belgium and Africa.
Oh no, if you've noticed, the U.S. doesn't care about anyone except the U.S. Thus, I don't think I've ever seen anything more "exotic" than the BBC. Thus, I don't own a television. U.S. TV is pointless and banal.
And "reality television" is an oxymoron. Accent on the moron!! ;)b
People who cut you off only to drive slower than you were driving originally. >:(
People who tell me "for every chicken/deer/cow/pig/... I don't eat, they will eat three".
Guys at bars who can't take a hint... People in general who can't take a hint that you don't want to talk to them.
Traffic becuase everyone is looking at someone getting pulled over or something as stupid/traffic in general.
People who talk so obnoxiously loud that you can hear their private conversation at a distance.
People who have no sense of personal space who talk/stand WAY to close to you.
Probably way more if I think about it, lol.
People who tell me "for every chicken/deer/cow/pig/... I don't eat, they will eat three".
I just always tell them thanks for looking out for me and doing their part. Haha. Silly people. Most have stopped saying it to me since I just go with it.
And with the people talking loud thing. I have something along those lines. John ALWAYS talks on his phone on speaker with it all the way up. His phone is LOUD. I can usually hear it outside if hes talking, that loud. He also has the walkie-talkie type thing on his phone and talks on it. And he always talks extra loud on it. Argggg, shuddup I don't care about your convos silly man.
Listening to some of you talk reminds me of this. I can't stand getting up super early and driving way out to the farmer's market and finding that 99.9% of the stuff has PLU sticker on it and is usually imported. If I wanted grocery store produce, I would I have stayed in my area and gone to the grocery store. The grocery store is cheaper too. Even in the peak of the growing season here, most of the farmer's market is stickered.
I bought into a CSA this summer, and I can't wait for fresh "organic" food. I really miss the real farmers' markets in CA.
People who cut you off only to drive slower than you were driving originally. >:(
People who tell me "for every chicken/deer/cow/pig/... I don't eat, they will eat three".
Guys at bars who can't take a hint... People in general who can't take a hint that you don't want to talk to them.
Traffic becuase everyone is looking at someone getting pulled over or something as stupid/traffic in general.
People who talk so obnoxiously loud that you can hear their private conversation at a distance.
People who have no sense of personal space who talk/stand WAY to close to you.
Probably way more if I think about it, lol.
Oh my god, we ARE twins. Other than the bar thing--I don't go to bars (too many people in one tiny little space!). Other than that, we're 100% together on these.
Scuse my ignorance, Ibarte, but what's a PLU sticker? In your case it seems to mean "Please Leave Untouched" but...what does it stand for? Plenty Left Unharvested? Pittsburgh Lutheran University?
Prespiring minds want to know.
Scuse my ignorance, Ibarte, but what's a PLU sticker? In your case it seems to mean "Please Leave Untouched" but...what does it stand for? Plenty Left Unharvested? Pittsburgh Lutheran University?
Prespiring minds want to know.
Sorry. I used to work retail and forget that everyone else might not know the lingo, expecially not translated. PLU stands for produce lookup number. I don't recall seeing them in Spain, but I wasn't looking. It's those little stickers with the 4 or sometimes 5 digit codes on them that are used at the cash register.
For example:
4611 Garlic
4065 Bell pepper (green)
4011 bananas
4062 Cucumber
This indicates that the produce in question is marked to be sold in a retail store and that this "farmer" just bought a couple crates of produce from the same distributor the stores use and is attempting to pass it off as his own at the farmer's market.
Listening to some of you talk reminds me of this. I can't stand getting up super early and driving way out to the farmer's market and finding that 99.9% of the stuff has PLU sticker on it and is usually imported. If I wanted grocery store produce, I would I have stayed in my area and gone to the grocery store. The grocery store is cheaper too. Even in the peak of the growing season here, most of the farmer's market is stickered.
I bought into a CSA this summer, and I can't wait for fresh "organic" food. I really miss the real farmers' markets in CA.
That ticks me off, too. Fortunately, in my area there are several farmers markets that are locally produced only. Plus, some of the farms that participate are closer to my home than going to Whole Foods or Trader Joe's, so I buy all of the produce that I don't grow for myself from these places during harvest times. I live in Northeast Ohio, so it isn't available year-round.
Scuse my ignorance, Ibarte, but what's a PLU sticker? In your case it seems to mean "Please Leave Untouched" but...what does it stand for? Plenty Left Unharvested? Pittsburgh Lutheran University?
Prespiring minds want to know.
Sorry. I used to work retail and forget that everyone else might not know the lingo, expecially not translated. PLU stands for produce lookup number. I don't recall seeing them in Spain, but I wasn't looking. It's those little stickers with the 4 or sometimes 5 digit codes on them that are used at the cash register.
For example:
4611 Garlic
4065 Bell pepper (green)
4011 bananas
4062 Cucumber
This indicates that the produce in question is marked to be sold in a retail store and that this "farmer" just bought a couple crates of produce from the same distributor the stores use and is attempting to pass it off as his own at the farmer's market.
Oh yeah--we have those on imported stuff like apples from Italy and France. I had to ask VW what the numbers meant.
Like the "locally produced" garlic I know darm well came from China. Different colour, different texture, and no flavour at all.
People that go off to work and leave their dogs tied up or in a tiny pen to bark all day long.
People that go off to work and leave their dogs tied up or in a tiny pen to bark all day long.
Yes. I house-sat for a professor last year, and the neighbor had a big dog tied up in their yard, and this 70 some pound dog never got to get off of his chain, which as about 12 feet long, for the entire 4 months we lived there. He howled and barked constantly. He was rained on and snowed on, and he was miserable. Another professor that lived nearby had called the police about this dog and another dog's living situation, and basically they did nothing. It's almost beyond grinding gear and really just heart breaking. He made us miserable too. Sometimes I just wished I had the guts to go cut his chain and let him free, but that neighbor was one of those hillbilly types that threatened to shoot everyone. I was spineless, so the dog suffers on.
....when I'm really super tired and my body decides to wake up after 3 or 4 hours sleep and thinks that's enough. It's not!
This has happened for the past 4 or 5 nights. Not cool.
People that go off to work and leave their dogs tied up or in a tiny pen to bark all day long.
Yes. I house-sat for a professor last year, and he neighbor had a big dog tied up in their yard, and this 70 some pound dog never got to get off of his chain, which as about 12 feet long, for the entire 4 months we lived there. He howled and barked constantly. He was rained on and snowed on, and he was miserable. Another professor that lived nearby had called the police about this dog and another dog's living situation, and basically they did nothing. It's almost beyond grinding gear and really just heart breaking. He made us miserable too. Sometimes I just wished I had the guts to go cut his chain and let him free, but that neighbor was one of those hillbilly types that threatened to shoot everyone. I was spineless, so the dog suffers on.
to add to the sad animal stories: where I used to live, there was a house next door where *something* wasn't working because the dog was always getting out. We lived on a boulevard, and so this old dog was just trotting around traffic, and never seemed to find his way back home (maybe he didn't want to go! one time he spent 3 weeks out.). It was frustrating because I'd usually just spot him, across the street during a busy time. Finally one day I encountered him on the way to my door, and I caught him. He was filthy, emaciated, very thirsty, and had tons of hair missing from his back/tail base. It was also completely scabbed to the point of black crusts all over (he was a blonde dog). I called the SPCA and animal control, and eventually the SPCA visited the neighbor. I called back to find out what happened, and apparently the owner said she was treating his skin condition (which other neighbors had seen for years), and they couldn't do anything about him being let out, and that was an animal control issue (who is notorious for taking over a day to respond to even emergencies). The skin condition he had was flea allergic dermatitis which is treated by... flea medication. And should clear up pretty quickly. I guess I could have believed it was just a persistent problem even after the fleas were treated, but every time I'd run into him he'd be overrun by fleas.
So many times I just wanted to bathe that guy, medicate him, and keep him. Yet by doing that *I'd* be the one committing the crime. Sigh...
....when I'm really super tired and my body decides to wake up after 3 or 4 hours sleep and thinks that's enough. It's not!
This has happened for the past 4 or 5 nights. Not cool.
This.
I feel your pain and weariness. Body may be rested, brain not so much.
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People who don't know what vegan means, so they decide to try and tell me what it means. As in, a professor ate pizza with vegetables on it then decided to tell me it was vegan. When I said no, you're wrong, there's cheese, he tried to argue with me. Just because someone has a PhD doesn't mean they know everything (but don't tell them that!). Grrrrr.
People who don't know what vegan means, so they decide to try and tell me what it means. As in, a professor ate pizza with vegetables on it then decided to tell me it was vegan. When I said no, you're wrong, there's cheese, he tried to argue with me. Just because someone has a PhD doesn't mean they know everything (but don't tell them that!). Grrrrr.
I had this physics professor with more than 1 PhD that was a moron. He actually told us that he was drawing the magnetic field vectors as white chalk on a green chalkboard, but we could use black pencil on white paper and it would still work. I almost raised my hand and asked what would happen if I only had a blue pen. Please.
People who...get you on the phone and...like...talk so slowly...that you...just really..uh..wanna finish their...sentences for them...ya know?
I don' t know if it's a "man thing" but the two worst offenders I know happen to be men. It makes me crazeeeee!
My bf talks REALLY PAINSTAKINGLY SLOWLYYYYY....he also takes really long pauses where I will start to say something and he claims I interrupted him...its like," I'm sorry, you just paused for a minute, I thought you were maybe done or something."
I used to hate it in evening classes, (more so in my undergrad. "generals" that I didn't care about, like Philosophy, Anthroplogy, etc) when everyone knows if the prof. gets done with lecture we get to go home early, and people will continuously make all these random comments and stories about how the topic relates to something that happened to their friend once. Or EVEN WORSE, that they "don't agree" with a fact or a way a story was written. I'm sorry I am paying big bucks and using lots of my valuable time to get through school and learn what the professor has to lecture about. I do not care that your un-educated-freshman-ass doesn't "agree" with the law of physics. If someone has a question or something relevant to add, fine, but please do not waste my time with your random opinion/story/comment I would like to go home! Its like that quote from Billy Madison, "we are all dumber from having listened to you."
I almost got into my first fist fight in a freshmen night-class on Social Inequalities..... when some loser girl announced, (like anyone cared may I add,) that she didn't agree with the basic principles of social classes....she was then backed up by an old army-type guy...(remember this was a night class...) he claimed "this is America...those immigrants and people on welfare are lazy/draining our resources....blah...blah...blah...." The girl THAN says she went to a KKK rally...(I'm serious, I didn't even know they had those in the North, or 2002.) I was the ONLY one to say anything to her statement, (I think everyone was a little shocked.) I basically told her she was a total ignorant loser and a KKK rally might be the only place she could make friends, we both almost got kicked out of class, AND we were delayed in leaving early. That was like 8 years ago...good to get that off my chest, whew.
I almost got into my first fist fight in a freshmen night-class on Social Inequalities..... when some loser girl announced, (like anyone cared may I add,) that she didn't agree with the basic principles of social classes....she was then backed up by an old army-type guy...(remember this was a night class...) he claimed "this is America...those immigrants and people on welfare are lazy/draining our resources....blah...blah...blah...." The girl THAN says she went to a KKK rally...(I'm serious, I didn't even know they had those in the North, or 2002.) I was the ONLY one to say anything to her statement, (I think everyone was a little shocked.) I basically told her she was a total ignorant loser and a KKK rally might be the only place she could make friends, we both almost got kicked out of class, AND we were delayed in leaving early. That was like 8 years ago...good to get that off my chest, whew.
Um, you're awesome!
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