Nah.... I would never let them hang out the side of my ride.

Nah.... I would never let them hang out the side of my ride.

 

I dont know, if your "co pilot" is blowing at women walking then he has no manners or game.

I hate it when you are listening to internet radio, Music Choice or a video show and they don't tell you what actual album a song is from -- instead they tell you it's on the band's "Greatest Hits" album. First off, I hate greatest hits albums. When I like a song, I want to hear what other songs the band was making at that time. I want to hear an album with the songs in the proper order and I want to hear album cuts. Metallica doesn't have a greatest hits record, but imagine having to dig through all that Loads tripe to get to the good stuff. Second, that means the site/channel assumes that you aren't musically sophisticated to want anything but a record full of hits or the band's "most popular songs". Third, it means that they just show the greatest hits artwork -- meaning that I won't see the art that goes with the album. Sure, you can use the internet to get this information, but it's an extra step to run to the computer (if one's even around) and look it up, which is something people have to do enough already.

I hate it when you are listening to internet radio, Music Choice or a video show and they don't tell you what actual album a song is from -- instead they tell you it's on the band's "Greatest Hits" album. First off, I hate greatest hits albums. When I like a song, I want to hear what other songs the band was making at that time. I want to hear an album with the songs in the proper order and I want to hear album cuts. Metallica doesn't have a greatest hits record, but imagine having to dig through all that Loads tripe to get to the good stuff. Second, that means the site/channel assumes that you aren't musically sophisticated to want anything but a record full of hits or the band's "most popular songs". Third, it means that they just show the greatest hits artwork -- meaning that I won't see the art that goes with the album. Sure, you can use the internet to get this information, but it's an extra step to run to the computer (if one's even around) and look it up, which is something people have to do enough already.

 

Concurred.

 

A true fan never wants the "Greatest Hits" because they've heard those a million times. If you're a true fan, you're going to listen to the hits on the radio any time it comes on when the single first comes out. I think it's safe to say novelty of singles wears off quickly for true fans. Plus, you're just likely to think the hit is b.s. for the mainstream to eat up. The artist has to sacrifice their genius to appease the industry and boost the first week of sales which reflects how an album will ultimately do in the long run.

 

I have some greatest hits albums on itunes - Alice in Chains, Guns n' Roses, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Chili Peppers, Michael Jackson. They just have a few good songs that i like. Some older bands that I like, either tell a story throughout an album or their whole discography is a continuum - which I like. Queensryche and Pink Floyd come to mind. I remember seeing commercials for Pink Floyd's "Echoes" (Greatest Hits Album) and it made no sense to me because the songs on the Greatest Hits album are just VERY tiny snippets of a much larger story. The lyrics are very deep, (and it's surprising to me because it seems like they were really mainstream back in the day, juxtoposed to mainstream music now.)  It annoyed me because people bought the album and don't realizing that...especially with my generation.

• Cousins who send you 35+ year old pictures you dont remember taking and then say "remember this?"  NO  I was 5!
   
  
• Cousins who attend Justin Beiber concerts and send text messages that say "Little dude is jammin'"
  
• Jealousy
   
  

Places that don't open for breakfast until 7 or 7:30 downtown (or later!).  Imagine if you were in a hotel and they didn't serve breakfast until 7.  That would be a little inconvenient for many business travelers. Who are the people walking around downtown in the morning?  Business people.  I'm at work by the time your ass opens for breakfast, people!

^ agreed. Or fickin coffee shops that don't open until 6:30 and that is if their staff shows up on time, if you open at 6:30 you should have coffee by 6:30 not 20 minues later. This used to a major peeve of mine with the old Phoenix Coffee in Lakewood, however since they moved into the bigger space next door and became the Root Cafe they always open on time now or at least by the time I leave for work.

 

Ironicly enough my wife worked at Perks the coffe shop in Athens while we were at OU  and was always late when it was her turn to open up.

YES. I like it when they open, but are not ready for customers.  Get there early, bitches, be READY when you open the doors.

I love that, especially when I am treating my self to a good cup of coffee in the morning instead of drinking the swill we make at home (my wife dumps flavored creamer in so I am not wasting $10 plus a lb coffee). As a fiery italian with anger issues and a caffiene addiction nothing pisses me off more. Luckily there is a Caribou right across the street so I still could get coffee. I all about supporting local biz over the chains but.....

Yes, some people use their horns in an aggressive manner, but it can also be used in a defensive manner.  The specific cases I have in mind involve a truck started to move into your lane, not realizing you're there (and sometimes there's just nowhere for you to go) until you blow the horn.  There are some cases where it is helpful.  I hardly ever use mine, but it has been helpful a handful of times, both when I've used it or when someone else has alerted me.

 

It helps to stay out of truckers' blind spots. Generally, if you can see his mirror, he can see you, and most truckers, regardless of what it sometimes seems, aren't homicidal maniacs. And if you encounter one who is, the horn isn't going to help. I just stay well away from trucks on the interstates whenever possible. If you've ever seen a truck throw a tire tread at 70mph, you'll understand why.

 

Don't talk to me like I'm 16.  I have a lot of experience driving (more than I'd like).  I don't drive in blind spots, but sometimes things happen (especially in heavy traffic).  Trucks may pass you, or you may start to pass a truck and then traffic slows ahead of you and you end up next to him for a few seconds.  I'm not talking about driving in a truck's blind spot for a minute, but it's a requirement to be in the blind spot of a truck for at least a couple seconds when either you are passing the truck or the truck is passing you (unless you fly by the truck so fast you zoom right through the blind spot I guess).  Also, of course there are plenty of times where another driver (and yes, SOMETIMES a truck) isn't paying enough attention and the horn lets him know that you are there, even if you weren't in the driver's blind spot.  Trust me, I'm a very defensive driver.  I am constantly looking for anything anyone else could do wrong on the road and having a mental plan for how I would react if they do it (I only pass if there's room for error if something goes wrong, etc.), but every once in a while there is still a need to alert someone else.  But I see you're hell-bent on saying there's never a possibility that a horn is useful, so I'm not even sure why I'm trying to argue with you.

 

What I will agree with is that most of the time the horn is used improperly.  I saw this yesterday while I was getting gas at a busy intersection.  In the time I filled my tank, I heard five horns, and all of them were "pissed-off horns", not constructive horns.  And of course there's also the people that lay on the horn when the light turns green and the person in front of them doesn't move within a half second.  But this again brings me to a reasonable use of the horn.  If the guy in front of you is not paying attention at all (I have seen a few people sit through an entire cycle of a green light because they're not paying attention), a quick, light (informative, not angry) tap of the horn nearly always improves the situation, surely more than bumping the guy's car in front of you.

I saw an instance where a horn would have helped this morning, and was scratching my head at why it wasn't used.

 

I was driving on a 4 lane street with a 5th/middle turn lane, in the curb lane. A fire truck was approaching from the other direction so people were slowing down, stopping and pulling to the side. Enough cars that the people in the inside lane couldn't all get over, but some pulled over a little into the curb lane as the curb lane cars pulled over closer to the curb, as can be typical. A car length ahead of me was a chevy cavalier wagon which was just a little over into the curb lane, like several other cars.  A van was directly ahead of it, same positioning.  Fire truck continues to approach and some a-hole coming the same way as the fire truck is ahead of the truck and speeding.  Pulls into the L turn lane just next to the van and stops w/blinker on, to turn into the drive of the gas station that was right there.  Fire truck is now almost upon us.  WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN THE FIRE TRUCK IS RIGHT BY YOU? KEEP YOUR CAR STILL.  But no. Idiot van driver decided that they would back up so the left-turner could get into the gas station. Didn't even look, just put it in reverse and started backing up. The wagon driver appeared to just sit there and watch it happen as he backed, backed, CRUNCH, right into the guy's bumper, which was very crushed in the corner I could see. If he had hit the horn, the guy likely would have stopped before he actually hit him. 

 

This is yet another traffic law that I think is superior in LA - when an emergency vehicle approaches, you don't necessarily have to pull over, especially if there is other traffic around you, WHICH THERE ALWAYS IS, HELLO IT'S LA.  You just stop wherever you are. Full stop. Wait til it passes, then continue. 

 

The other law that I think is better is when making a turn, you don't have to turn into the closest lane, such as the inside lane when making a left. You can turn into whatever lane is open.

The other law that I think is better is when making a turn, you don't have to turn into the closest lane, such as the inside lane when making a left. You can turn into whatever lane is open.

 

What about for double turn lanes?

I don't remember specifically, but I imagine there are dotted lines drawn to indicate you should stay in your same lane for those until you complete the turn, like there are here?

That makes sense.  I think that's a good idea.  Many people here don't follow that law anyway, and I don't think the law makes much sense.

The other law that I think is better is when making a turn, you don't have to turn into the closest lane, such as the inside lane when making a left. You can turn into whatever lane is open.

 

What about for double turn lanes?

 

Right.  Like on the East 9th exit ramp off westbound Rt. 2 where at least 1 in 5 of the drivers in the left turn lane feel it is within their discretion to choose which lane to turn into.... pushing the drivers in the right (but still turning left) turn lane into the curb.  Those people drive me nuts.... but not as much as the dead man's curve 'cutters'  :whip:

A semi ran me off the road while I was going 70mph in Florida. Stuff really DOES happen for no good reason. We were about parallel, he was 2 lanes over. I had my turn signal on, moved into the right lane and he moved into the left lane at the same time without a turn signal and I jerked the wheel and lost control. I should have gotten over after getting ahead of him but it's still no excuse on his side - he could have seen me if he looked left. To his credit, he was probably the one who called 911 after I ended up doing about 10 360s in the median and ended up in a ditch. The problem with truck drivers is that they lie on their log book about the number of hours they're driving per day; time is money for them regardless of state laws.

Today.  Religious groups and whinny ass potential boyfriends!

• Cousins who send you 35+ year old pictures you dont remember taking and then say "remember this?" NO I was 5!
   
  
• Cousins who attend Justin Beiber concerts and send text messages that say "Little dude is jammin'"
  
• Jealousy
   
  

 

It's okay to admit your jealousy about going to the Justin Bieber concert.

 

• Cousins who send you 35  year old pictures you dont remember taking and then say "remember this?"  NO  I was 5!
   
  
• Cousins who attend Justin Beiber concerts and send text messages that say "Little dude is jammin'"
  
• Jealousy
   
  

 

It's okay to admit your jealousy about going to the Justin Bieber concert.

 

Child Boo!  My cousin had to go since his family lives downtown and 14 teenage girls & 5 teenage boys from my family were  going to the concert, so someone had to chaperone.  He drew the short stick.

 

He says he's never seen so many girls scream in unison.

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• Cousins who attend Justin Beiber concerts and send text messages that say "Little dude is jammin'"

 

although I've somewhat moderated my stand on capital punishment over the years, there are certain specific crimes that are so unforgivable they would certainly be grounds for sentencing someone to the electric chair. LOL.

• Cousins who attend Justin Beiber concerts and send text messages that say "Little dude is jammin'"
  

although I've somewhat moderated my stand on capital punishment over the years, there are certain specific crimes that are so unforgivable they would certainly be grounds for sentencing someone to the electric chair. LOL.

 

When he sent me that, I just looked at my  phone with the WTF face.  His wife said she was not going PERIOD, she said our family's girls were all hyped up about the concert and times that by 10000, she wanted no part!

• Cousins who attend Justin Beiber concerts and send text messages that say "Little dude is jammin'"
  

although I've somewhat moderated my stand on capital punishment over the years, there are certain specific crimes that are so unforgivable they would certainly be grounds for sentencing someone to the electric chair. LOL.

 

When he sent me that, I just looked at my  phone with the WTF face.  His wife said she was not going PERIOD, she said our family's girls were all hyped up about the concert and times that by 10000, she wanted no part!

maybe we need some context: the Kardashian sisters make Justin Bieber sound like Frank Sinatra!

Horses in the city.  I can't stand the horse and carriages here in Chicago.  When they walk by, they smell absolutely disgusting since they are basically  hauling their waste around behind them.  I never saw the real benefit.  Well, maybe tourists want an olde timey evening ride through the city.  So I check yelp and most of the comments were negative.  Okay, just do away with them then.  It doesn't seem right either.  Even on a bike I'm a bit nervous around cars.  But what about a horse?  Unpredictable?  Seems kind of wrong.  Horses belong out on rural trails and pastures.

 

They should replace them with robot horses.  That would be a win.

 

 

^Amen.  You want horses?  Go to the f'ing countryside and do a hay ride.  The horse urine small in southern Central Park can take the paint off cars.

^Amen.  You want horses?  Go to the f'ing countryside and do a hay ride.  The horse urine small in southern Central Park can take the paint off cars.

 

It's not that bad unless you're on 59 Street itself.

I changed the thread title. It started out as "What are your biggest pet peeves?" which was meant to reflect the most irksome situations you encounter that eat at the very root of your psyche, but I had no idea that the popularity of this thread would cause it to evolve into a thread wherein people complain about random things that happen to them on a daily basis. Now, me personally, I strive to be a positive person and I don't let things get to me all that much because life is too short for that. They probably don't get to you all that much either - I guess we all just come across random things that annoy us and need to vent. Sooooo, anyway, that's why it's changed the title.

 

I created this monster, this self collapsing vortex of negativity, so for what it's worth as the thread starter, all I'm asking is that we don't grammar police. This is seriously getting mundane. If you're the type of person who genuinely hates certain slang words, just leave it alone. We all use slang words, I don't care how educated you are. If you're a doctor or a lawyer, you're using 'slang' words left and right without realizing it. I see this nit-picking in numerous other threads lately, which is why I brought it up. If it means that much to you and you really need to vent, go ahead. I just think I speak for a lot of people when I say it's getting tiring.

 

Edit: Sorry, you have to forgive me for the subtle hostility; I've been in my employer's 5 week intensive training class learning about technology that I've never even heard of in college and I just got back a couple hours ago and still have stuff to study before sleep. Urrrghh.

^Amen.  You want horses?  Go to the f'ing countryside and do a hay ride.  The horse urine small in southern Central Park can take the paint off cars.

 

It's not that bad unless you're on 59 Street itself.

 

Haha. You know what's funny? Like I said, I lived in a small rural town, it was always funny to hear them talk about how they love the smell of horse sh!t. Can you believe that? People in the country would buy a d@mn air freshener that smells of manure if they offered it at Pep Boys. I never understood that. I guess a lot of the smell of the city (minus Pittsburgh Sulfer) is enjoyable to me because I like where I am - they probably find that repulsive. People in the country like the smell of the country because it brings back good memories I guess. Smell is the strongest sense tied to memory. I still don't fully get it though. My memories of being in the country mostly consist of being stuck behind some Amish horse and buggy going 10mph as they're trampling all over the next horse's sh!t on the road.

Today's pet peeve is sorting and rinsing recyclables.  It's 2010, are most cities really this far behind?  My hometown we NEVER had to do this.  Throw all stuff caked in food into one bin.  That was it.  City picks it up, rinses it at their plant, and has machines that automatically sort everything.  This is pretty much the reason why people don't do it at all.  Fortunately my apartment building was concerned of this, and allows us to dump everything in one place and has staff that will sort them for us.  There's really no justifying it.  Everyone I've talked to has agreed that the requirement to sort recyclables is absolutely ridiculous.

Today's pet peeve is sorting and rinsing recyclables.  It's 2010, are most cities really this far behind?  My hometown we NEVER had to do this.  Throw all stuff caked in food into one bin.  That was it.  City picks it up, rinses it at their plant, and has machines that automatically sort everything.  This is pretty much the reason why people don't do it at all.  Fortunately my apartment building was concerned of this, and allows us to dump everything in one place and has staff that will sort them for us.  There's really no justifying it.  Everyone I've talked to has agreed that the requirement to sort recyclables is absolutely ridiculous.

 

Cue a soliloquy rant by EC

Grrr. people who don't put the fucking car keys on the key rack by the door and set both sets down in the same random place covered up so I can't find them when it's time to take the kids to school....on the bright side I have already walked 2 miles today. 1 mile of it was carrying a 50lb 4YO.

Grrr. people who don't put the f$&king car keys on the key rack by the door and set both sets down in the same random place covered up so I can't find them when it's time to take the kids to school....on the bright side I have already walked 2 miles today. 1 mile of it was carrying a 50lb 4YO.

 

You should have made the 4 year old carry you!  Now that I think about it....when the 4 year old is your age, he might be posting something similar, complaining that they had to carrying their 125 lbs. 80 year old father to Shady Pines!

125lb? Only if I am skeletal and ravaged by cancer. More like 300lbs. I have worked too hard to keep my weight down. Once I am old and don't give a f$&k anymore I am going to eat anything I want.

 

I plan on eating like CDM :)

125lb? Only if I am skeletal and ravaged by cancer. More like 300lbs. I have worked too hard to keep my weight down. Once I am old and don't give a f$&k anymore I am going to eat anything I want.

 

Channelling your inner Jimmy Dimora are you?

My Grandfather is my role model. He is like the godfather at the assisted living complex that he lives at. He boasted about being almost 300lbs!

... You know what's funny? Like I said, I lived in a small rural town, it was always funny to hear them talk about how they love the smell of horse sh!t. Can you believe that? People in the country would buy a d@mn air freshener that smells of manure if they offered it at Pep Boys. I never understood that. I guess a lot of the smell of the city (minus Pittsburgh Sulfer) is enjoyable to me because I like where I am - they probably find that repulsive. People in the country like the smell of the country because it brings back good memories I guess. Smell is the strongest sense tied to memory. I still don't fully get it though. My memories of being in the country mostly consist of being stuck behind some Amish horse and buggy going 10mph as they're trampling all over the next horse's sh!t on the road.

My roommate said his mother grew up in a rural village in France and that she liked the smell of manure.  Then he theorized that dead livestock was the smell that she would not have welcomed.

... You know what's funny? Like I said, I lived in a small rural town, it was always funny to hear them talk about how they love the smell of horse sh!t. Can you believe that? People in the country would buy a d@mn air freshener that smells of manure if they offered it at Pep Boys. I never understood that. I guess a lot of the smell of the city (minus Pittsburgh Sulfer) is enjoyable to me because I like where I am - they probably find that repulsive. People in the country like the smell of the country because it brings back good memories I guess. Smell is the strongest sense tied to memory. I still don't fully get it though. My memories of being in the country mostly consist of being stuck behind some Amish horse and buggy going 10mph as they're trampling all over the next horse's sh!t on the road.

My roommate said his mother grew up in a rural village in France and that she liked the smell of manure.  Then he theorized that dead livestock was the smell that she would not have welcomed.

 

Horses & cows, not so bad unless you're cleaning out a barn where a foot and a half of accumulated straw and steaming poop has fermented for half the winter. That's just a tad pungent. Pigs and large poultry farms are the rankest, though. Spend half an hour on a pig farm on a rainy day, and it'll take lots of soap and shampoo to get the aroma out of your skin and hair, and a week with the windows open before the inside of your car doesn't smell like what you thought you had left behind.

 

When it comes to feedstocks for anaerobic methane generators, though, the rule of thumb is that the worse it smells, the more methane it will produce. I've heard some ethanol plants are co-located with large hog-feeding operations; distiller's grain from the fermentation process is a protein supplement in the animal feed without having to be dried and shipped, and the manure supplies a substantial portion of the plant's gas requirements.

 

Who said I don't know sh!t? I've shoveled more of it than anyone except a brokerage CEO!

I forked six hundred pounds of horse manure into the back of my Windstar minivan and drove home two miles.  It did not leave a bad smell, as far as I could tell.

 

I scrapped the beast in "cash for clunkers" a few days later.  It was a win.

Oh I dunno, there were quite a few horse farms in the outlying areas of my hometown and that was pretty putrid. Definitely not as oh-my-holy-god-please-kill-my-sense-of-smell as pigs and poultry but nasty enough. It always cracks me up whenever I bring friends from a city background to my hometown - "ooh, that's fresh country air!" - uh, no - that's cow sh!t.

Oh I dunno, there were quite a few horse farms in the outlying areas of my hometown and that was pretty putrid. Definitely not as oh-my-holy-god-please-kill-my-sense-of-smell as pigs and poultry but nasty enough. It always cracks me up whenever I bring friends from a city background to my hometown - "ooh, that's fresh country air!" - uh, no - that's cow sh!t.

I say the same thing, but I am just being sarcastic.

You folks don't know stink unless you've ever driven past a tannery. Good god, I don't know what they do in there, but the people that work there must have had the sense of smell burned out of their skulls years ago. My father always has the same line whenever we'd go past one "Ahhh, that's the smell of money"

 

Wokka wokka wokka!

There's a mink farm not far from my in-laws, that beats a pig farm anyday.

 

I grew up near a horse farm (and worked there during middle school) and the smell isn't too bad to me. It still smell like shit, but it probably doesn't bother me as much as some people.

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The lazy government in Kirtland built a sewer district because they had to.  They are dragging their feet on the second phase of the project.  I live in an old, dense neighborhood.  The neighbors dump untreated sewage into the roadside ditches.  In the summer, my backyard smells like a sewer when the wind blows from the nearby stream.

 

New homes have been built on my block since the first sewer project was started.  Those homeowners will fight sewers because they are going to have to pay twice to replace the septic system that they already bought with the house.

 

I am tempted to call the EPA or health department and force them to sample the stream water to force their hand.  The open sewer is not on my property, though.

 

 

The neighbors dump untreated sewage?  What are they doing, pissing in buckets or something?

The neighbors dump untreated sewage? What are they doing, pissing in buckets or something?

Apparently Kirtland is a suburb of Calcutta.

 

Peeve du jour: Why in the name of Betty Ford doesn't Great Lakes Brew Company make more Christmas Ale? I understand the whole scarcity thing but when it sells out at stores BEFORE THANKSGIVING, you clearly aren't making enough.

The neighbors dump untreated sewage?  What are they doing, pissing in buckets or something?

Apparently Kirtland is a suburb of Calcutta.

 

Peeve du jour: Why in the name of Betty Ford doesn't Great Lakes Brew Company make more Christmas Ale? I understand the whole scarcity thing but when it sells out at stores BEFORE THANKSGIVING, you clearly aren't making enough.

 

MayDay hoards specialty products from Great Lakes, and it's impossible for them to anticipate how much he will stash away. :wink:

I imagine when he says dumping, that it's actually that those folks septic systems aren't functioning properly. There's a neighborhood near me that had a similar problem. Nobody in that neighborhood apparently cared since they had decent sized lots. It only came to light because our lake association commissioned a watershed study after some routine water quality tests found abnormal amounts of fecal material (as in not just runoff from the deer and the squirrels)l in certain parts of the lake. Fortunately my city already had a sewage district so it was just a matter of extending the existing network.

 

In re Christmas Ale: Everyone hoards the stuff because they know they might very well be unable to find it later; so, it ends up selling out that much faster. My mother who keeps at the most a couple 6-packs worth of assorted beer on hand at any time for company (never drinks beer herself) has six or seven six-packs of GLBC Christmas Ale stocked up for the winter.

One of your favorite bands licensing their song to Honda (I am looking at you Vampire Weekend) and getting excited when it comes on the radio/tv only to realize it's a stupid commercial....

cough cough, black keys in the windows phone 7 commercials.

It's all Moby's fault (not that bands were not doing it before,  but he took it to a new level with "Play" and made it totally acceptable), well that and the fact that corporate radio in general sucks and MTV doesn't play videos.