Casual Pet Peeves

when movies have the characters talk really quietly or in a whisper, so you can't tell what they're saying without subtitles. then you turn up the volume and suddenly there's an explosion that makes your ears bleed because you had the volume up to listen to the people. "dude, your microphone is supposed to be on!"

when people in movies answer a question with one or two words that don't make any sense just to sound cool.
"that's no ghost. that's gravity."
woah, gravity makes things fall? i thought it was the theory of relativity.

when people immediately assume all religion is bad because of the actions of one religion or a few religious people.

when people come to crazy conclusions about things based on absolutely no information at all, such as "you like dogs better than cats, which means you hate cats!" no, i like dogs better than cats, don't assume i mean something that's drastically different than what i said.

when people turn normal words or phrases into crude slang.

me: "hey bob, what's up?"

bob: "huehuehuehue, you said 'what's up'. huehuehuehue"

me: -_-

the terrarian yoyo. first off, it isn't always the actual color of the terraria. second, it looks like an hourglass, not a yo yo. third, it costs $80. $80 bucks for a yoyo that doesn't even resemble the ingame one. NO THANKS.

how glasses get dirty when pretty much anything touches them, then when you try to clean it it just smears and it actually makes my eyes water when i look through dirty glasses.
 
neoselket said:
when movies have the characters talk really quietly or in a whisper, so you can't tell what they're saying without subtitles. then you turn up the volume and suddenly there's an explosion that makes your ears bleed because you had the volume up to listen to the people. "dude, your microphone is supposed to be on!"

when people in movies answer a question with one or two words that don't make any sense just to sound cool.
"that's no ghost. that's gravity."
woah, gravity makes things fall? i thought it was the theory of relativity.

when people immediately assume all religion is bad because of the actions of one religion or a few religious people.

when people come to crazy conclusions about things based on absolutely no information at all, such as "you like dogs better than cats, which means you hate cats!" no, i like dogs better than cats, don't assume i mean something that's drastically different than what i said.

when people turn normal words or phrases into crude slang.

me: "hey bob, what's up?"

bob: "huehuehuehue, you said 'what's up'. huehuehuehue"

me: -_-

the terrarian yoyo. first off, it isn't always the actual color of the terraria. second, it looks like an hourglass, not a yo yo. third, it costs $80. $80 bucks for a yoyo that doesn't even resemble the ingame one. NO THANKS.

how glasses get dirty when pretty much anything touches them, then when you try to clean it it just smears and it actually makes my eyes water when i look through dirty glasses.
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I've gotta debate with you on the terrarian one. It's hourglass shaped since it's high-quality, and that's just the shape most good ones come in. It's 80 dollars for the same reason. Admittedly, it would be cooler with the original colors though.
 
Grammar nazis. No, not grammar, people who correct grammar. And not because I get corrected often, since being an English major and linguistics minor, I rarely make grammar mistakes myself. Rather, I get annoyed when I see other people get corrected for mistakes even when those mistakes in no way inhibited understanding, since it's disrespectful to the message that person is trying to convey. You understood what they meant, so what's the point in correcting them? It's especially absurd because you have to understand what they meant in order to correct them anyway.

That isn't to say that I don't also have a knee-jerk urge to correct people on grammar sometimes, but I don't do it unless they actually ask me or they hypercorrect, which shows they want to use the "correct" form but just don't know it.

That said, a lot of Britishisms annoy me, like adding "u"s to words that don't need them. Seriously, the French pronunciation system is awful, I'd much rather go with the Latinized versions thank you very much.
 
I couldn't agree more with the point about unnecessary 'u's in words and I'll add putting 're' at the end of words, but still pronouncing it as if it was an 'er', such as 'spectre' and 'theatre'. That stuff is very annoying.
 
Jeckel said:
I couldn't agree more with the point about unnecessary 'u's in words and I'll add putting 're' at the end of words, but still pronouncing it as if it was an 'er', such as 'spectre' and 'theatre'. That stuff is very annoying.
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Yeah, although for some reason "spectre" doesn't bother me so much. But "theatre" definitely gets my gonads.

Though I do like a lot of British words, like "bollocks" which I have endeavored to add to my everyday vocabulary. It's just the French-derived spellings that bother me.
 
How everything related to Toilet Humor, Sex, Violence, and insulting other people seem to be the only things that pass for "Comedy" nowadays.

neoselket said:
when people turn normal words or phrases into crude slang.

me: "hey bob, what's up?"

bob: "huehuehuehue, you said 'what's up'. huehuehuehue"

me: -_-
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This very much is one of the bigger Peeves I also have for sure. Makes me not want to talk to that person again at all for eternity.
 
An up-and-coming pet peeve of mine is people who forget how to use words and instead resort to primitive gestures when they're trying to indicate they want something.

For example, at work, we ran out of tissues at the entrance. I was working on something nearby, and a lady said "Hey, you" to get my attention. Having succeeded, she then proceeded to bang on the box with the palms of her hands, making exaggerated exasperated sighs and shrugging at me while making impatient gestures. Unfortunately for her, I am a complete moron and did not understand what could have possibly been wrong either, so I just shrugged back and continued with my business.

There's easier ways to say "You're out of tissues" than banging on the empty box with the palms of your hands as if that would make the clearly, visibly empty box magically sprout a tissue, and resembling a caveman being too perplexed by the advanced technology of cardboard. I, for one, recommend saying "You're out of tissues" myself.


Related Peeve: People who point at their wrist when they want the time. Yeah, that's where a watch would go if you had one. I make it a habit to awkwardly stare at my watch-less wrist every time they do it to me. It tends to get a laugh, which leads to them communicating with their voice instead, so it's good. I guess the underlying pet peeve here is people treating me like I'm deaf, stupid, or slow, just because I'm mute. (Which I get a lot of, now that I have a "nametag" saying I'm mute now.)
 
Tsuki said:
An up-and-coming pet peeve of mine is people who forget how to use words and instead resort to primitive gestures when they're trying to indicate they want something.
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I'm pretty scatterbrained and kind of socially awkward to boot (I've actually got a mild form of autism), so it isn't uncommon for me to actually forget how to say something in the middle of a sentence, which usually reduces me to useless gestures and flailing while I try to remember the word for what I was just about to say. Because of this I usually wait until I can formulate a full thought before choosing to speak up, which has gotten me a reputation for being "smart but silent".

Tsuki said:
Related Peeve: People who point at their wrist when they want the time. Yeah, that's where a watch would go if you had one. I make it a habit to awkwardly stare at my watch-less wrist every time they do it to me. It tends to get a laugh, which leads to them communicating with their voice instead, so it's good. I guess the underlying pet peeve here is people treating me like I'm deaf, stupid, or slow, just because I'm mute. (Which I get a lot of, now that I have a "nametag" saying I'm mute now.)
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I actually tend to look at my wrist when I want to know the time even if I'm not wearing one, mainly out of force of habit. I don't think I'm alone there, though.

Incidentally, how do people expect you to tell them the time if they know you're mute?
 
When a person does things that aren't expected of one's gender and assumes that person must be Transgender or Homosexual.

Also when people assume that people who hide their genders must be Transgender/Homosexual.

When you get confused on something, didn't understand, or didn't know about a particular fact/situation and the person takes a condescending tone towards you for it. Followed by saying things similar to "Learn how to read", "Google It", "You are stupid for not knowing this"

Whenever anyone uses the term "Emo" to describe themselves or anyone else.

Then when games that used to have a Gameplay Option where you could play against bots for fun or practice. And have that option removed and only allow it to be done in Multiplayer in future games. (I'm looking at you Mario Kart 7)
 
Whenever someone is scrolling through my computer's/phone's picture gallery and come across my hoards of pictures of anime characters and they come across the ones that have big breasts and immediately accuse me of masturbating to the pictures. I could just fill my gallery with hundreds of pictures of lucina and they wouldn't bat an eye bat as soon as they see that one Ryuuko they go all berserk.

Aurora3500 said:
Whenever anyone uses the term "Emo" to describe themselves or anyone else
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Whenever people say the Undertale fandom is bad because there is porn of it.

When people forums or places to discuss a game an anime or almost any form entertainment and go there just to say how much they hate it with nothing to back it up at least i have some basis for my hate on Tokyo Ghoul and Fairy tail

When people hate on fandoms just because they are fandoms.

When people watch anime and they are like "This Anime is so badass" and fail to recognize all the finer details in it and the deep messages in it.

When people use the word gay as insult primarily middle schoolers.

When people assume that a anime/Video game is better than another just based on the fact that one is older.

People shoving religious propaganda in children's faces in school.
 
Vizron said:
Whenever someone is scrolling through my computer's/phone's picture gallery and come across my hoards of pictures of anime characters and they come across the ones that have big breasts and immediately accuse me of masturbating to the pictures. I could just fill my gallery with hundreds of pictures of lucina and they wouldn't bat an eye bat as soon as they see that one Ryuuko they go all berserk.

Someone accuses you of masturbating to X material, you reply, "So what?" And move on.


Whenever people say the Undertale fandom is bad because there is porn of it.

Undertale's fandom isn't bad because of porn. It's bad because the fans are just awful people 99% of the time.

When people forums or places to discuss a game an anime or almost any form entertainment and go there just to say how much they hate it with nothing to back it up at least i have some basis for my hate on Tokyo Ghoul and Fairy tail

Or when you go to a game or anime forum and give reasons why X thing is bad, only to be dogpiled on by the rabid and :red:ty fanbase.

When people hate on fandoms just because they are fandoms.

When people watch anime and they are like "This Anime is so badass" and fail to recognize all the finer details in it and the deep messages in it.

When people use the word gay as insult primarily middle schoolers.

When people assume that a anime/Video game is better than another just based on the fact that one is older.

People shoving religious propaganda in children's faces in school.

Ooooh, this cranks my gooch so damned much. Children shouldn't be exposed to existential material til they're at least in college. You're merely indoctrinating them if they're not intellectually mature enough to understand said material.
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Also, when something is objectively mediocre, but the fans of said mediocrity exclaim and laud it as some second coming of the video game messiah. Looking at you, Undertale folks.
 
Korin said:
Undertale's fandom isn't bad because of porn. It's bad because the fans people on the Internet are just awful people 99% of the time.
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Fixed for truth.

Korin said:
Ooooh, this cranks my gooch so damned much. Children shouldn't be exposed to existential material til they're at least in college. You're merely indoctrinating them if they're not intellectually mature enough to understand said material.
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Implying there's something wrong with indoctrination? I mean, indoctrinating people with bad doctrine is bad, but if there's nothing wrong with the doctrine then I don't see the harm in it. And I don't think there's much harm in any of the religions children are likely to be exposed to at school.

Korin said:
Also, when something is objectively mediocre, but the fans of said mediocrity exclaim and laud it as some second coming of the video game messiah. Looking at you, Undertale folks.
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As someone whose involvement in the Undertale fanbase is limited to "saw a couple let's plays of it on Youtube", I don't think it's objectively possible to call Undertale anything less than "great". Maybe you can get away with just "good", but it's certainly not "mediocre".
 
Korin said:
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Also, when something is objectively mediocre, but the fans of said mediocrity exclaim and laud it as some second coming of the video game messiah. Looking at you, Undertale folks.
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There is a fine line between education and Propganda
 
When developers can't take constructive criticism and just shut down any sort of discussion on a particular suggestion. Or outright ban you for having the nerve to think that their perfect game is anything but perfect.
 
People who speak non-English in English-only chat rooms.

This just really irks me, because that kind of person will always be there because they most likely won't be able to understand that it's English only.
 
When Streaming Services like Hulu or Crunchyroll that assume that everyone wants to watch Dubs over Subs makes the Dubbed version of the show the default it takes you to when you click to watch the show's 1st episode. What if I want to watch Subs and don't want to have to go through a few extra pages to find the Subbed version? (There's normally no option to make Subs the default)

Worse when a Streaming Service only has a dubbed version of an Anime, but not a Subbed version. I really am curious to find out why it is harder for you to get a Subbed version of an Anime which only requires some translation and no new Voice Actors compared to a Dubbed version which is likely far more expensive to get than the Subbed version.

Abridged Series.

When people refuse to play games because the Graphics are "outdated" and the game can't be run on Ultra HD Overclocked Graphics. Does one really need to abuse their Computer/Console resources to get what is only a slightly better picture?

When people who do show a Battle/scene from a Video Game in a Video and they add in their own music over the game's music.

Also when people show a lets play and have commentary and they read all the dialogue the characters say in the game. I don't mind Commentary as long as it isn't obnoxious, but please don't read off the Character or Narration dialogue. For some reason it really makes the Lets Play/Playthrough not fun to watch.
 
The majority of people the Internet. Ha ha, just kidding. I would be genuinely REALLY upset if I were annoyed by anonymous people acting like total :red:s because there are no permanent consequences to doing so because I spend all of my FREE (key word right there) time browsing the World Wide Web.
 
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