Casual Pet Peeves

They're teaching what they've been told to teach, and most of them don't want to waste time going off on tangents from what was planned for the lesson.
And that's why I hate school in general. The goal of my school district is to prepare us for a test at the end of the year, so instead of learning anything useful, we basically waste the entire year preparing for a stupid test.
 
And that's why I hate school in general. The goal of my school district is to prepare us for a test at the end of the year, so instead of learning anything useful, we basically waste the entire year preparing for a stupid test.
The exceptions here are science, as well as music and most of the arts and computer classes.

Which, when you think about it, is everything but english, maths, history and geography. That's what it's like at my school, at least.
 
Just so you all know, electrically charged antimatter particles, such as positrons and antiprotons, can be contained and manipulated using specially shaped magnetic fields. Even antimatter atoms, which of course have no net charge, can be contained in a magnetic trap. This isn't just "theory" (in the non-scientists' understanding of the word). It's been done.

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-05/4/cern-traps-antimatter-for-16-minutes

To anyone with a good high school-level understanding of physics, Google and Wikipedia plus an hour or two can fill you in on what antimatter is, how it's used, and why it's not easily weaponized (physics is only part of the reason; we can't get away from economics).

Or, if you pick the wrong search results, the investigation can fill your head with the most absurd kind of pseudo-scientific garbage, written by crackpots each of whom is sure that they and only they have discovered the way to extract free energy from Nature's Four-Day Simultaneous Time Cube.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Cube

tl;dr version: Bad Science is a pet peeve of mine.
 
the question "if god didnt create the universe, what did?"
:red:ing leave the atheists alone, douchebags.
challenging someone's religion unprovoked is pretty hellworthy, at least imo. (exaggeration)

on that subject, i also hate when people assert a certain religion. i just believe as long as neither one is proved correct, no one has any room to talk.

edit: i just noticed, this probably looks like im trying to start a debate, doesnt it?
 
People who insist that any one genre of music is better than another. Things like that are completely subjective, so your opinion on it is practically irrelevant. I don't like listening to metal, but I respect the tone and artistic value of it, for example.

Also, people who insist on disliking new styles of music, claiming they aren't "real". There was a time when everyone thought Jazz wasn't real, and a time when people thought Classic rock wasn't real, and a time when people thought metal wasn't real! It's a strange, dumb cycle.
 
People doing poorly in tests and blaming it on the teacher. I don't care how bad they are at teaching, they always give you all the information you need- and it's almost always in the form of worksheets that you can read over again.
 
People doing poorly in tests and blaming it on the teacher. I don't care how bad they are at teaching, they always give you all the information you need- and it's almost always in the form of worksheets that you can read over again.
Depends on the teacher/professor. Some teach one thing and actually test you on another (I had a Gender Studies class like that. Most unfortunate for us students...). I think my pet peeve would be unclear test questions-- bad enough that you're stressing out on this test, but now you have to waste time translating a question instead of formulating that answer. $:(
 
People who insist that any one genre of music is better than another. Things like that are completely subjective, so your opinion on it is practically irrelevant. I don't like listening to metal, but I respect the tone and artistic value of it, for example.

Also, people who insist on disliking new styles of music, claiming they aren't "real". There was a time when everyone thought Jazz wasn't real, and a time when people thought Classic rock wasn't real, and a time when people thought metal wasn't real! It's a strange, dumb cycle.
To be fair, almost everything that people debate is opinionated. Facts are things that are proven; when someone agrees with a fact they are right, when someone doesn't agree with a fact they are wrong. EVERYTHING that is not a fact becomes an opinion, and no one can be right or wrong.

I'd go as far as saying it's annoying when anyone takes an opinion and tries to claim it as a fact. You have to either have a fact backing you up (ex: Reaver Shark is technically better than the Nightmare Pickaxe since it can mine stone in one hit instead of two at the same speed), or somehow state that it's your opinion when talking about something (ex: I prefer Ocarina of Time over Windwaker (and yes, that is my opinion :p))

Depends on the teacher/professor. Some teach one thing and actually test you on another (I had a Gender Studies class like that. Most unfortunate for us students...). I think my pet peeve would be unclear test questions-- bad enough that you're stressing out on this test, but now you have to waste time translating a question instead of formulating that answer. :merchantsad:
I know some teachers who do this by mistake. If they have multiple classes that are the same topic they sometimes get mixed up in which class they've already taught it in, especially college instructors who have one class MWF and the other class TR, making the overall time in class different. I had that experience once when studying with a friend who had the class at a different time, and we had slightly different things we had gone over in class (all of which ended up on the test).

But yes, there's also those teachers who just don't cover something, but put it on the test anyway. Those ones can be annoying.
 
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If you shorten "guacamole" to "guac", know that my searing green gaze is upon you.

Guacamole is bad enough. But amole gives guac a bit of grace. Without amole, guac is profanity. Not something you want to shout during tea. Certainly not in place of more refined words like mongoose or tryptophan.
 
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I hate with all my heart those perfumes/cologne tv spot, pretending to be sofisticated and like a piece of art, but they're totally ridiculous, they have no message, no meaning, and the only thing you see is a couple of models/actors talking in another language...what a load of crap!!
 
Whenever, if you dare even briefly mention what your religion is, then absolutely everyone begins to slander you and treat you like dirt.
im sure that doesnt happen much anymore.
  • People who fail to read a description right in front of them and proceed to ask a question that was covered in said description.
Condescending people.
that is a bit contradictory, dont you think?

on topic: when you dont agree with someone's logic but leave it alone, because you agree with logic that you came upon yourself, people think you are making no sense.
 
People who use the word "logistics" in place of "logic".
"It's only (concerning the transportation of goods from manufacturer to consumer)"?
 
People who use the word "logistics" in place of "logic".
"It's only (concerning the transportation of goods from manufacturer to consumer)"?
Logistics encompasses a lot more than just that specific definition. But yeah, that's just silly.
 
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