My peeve is when they don’t back up the statement. I know exactly squat about drummers and drumming, but if each side says “because his ________ was _______ in _______ and DRUMMRX could never make it that ___________.” Then I get to learn about the art and skills involved. These need not be factual statements, but my question is “What did you like about it?”
And really, that’s what draws me to the Dope in the first place. My ignorance is ginormous, I want help fighting it.
Has anyone done this thread yet? I searched and had trouble finding one if it does. I think it’s a great thread idea, might have to poach it.
A pet peeve of mine is when someone nitpicks about a movie getting something wrong, when everything else in the work requires massive amounts of suspension of disbelief.
A recent example was a thread from last week where people complained about the way the high school power-play stuff was portrayed on Lost. You don’t have a problem w/ Frozen Donkey Wheels, Smoke Monsters, and Time Travel… but gripe on and on about how “That’s not how AP Tests work” or whatever. Give it up - it’s a TV show, not a documentary!
And speaking of documentaries… The Office is a sitcom. Who cares if the documentary premise is flawed. Just don’t watch it if it bothers you that much!
Excuse me, but you are doing exactly what you are complaining about.
Yes, if someone who hates Titanic acts like everyone with any sense must hate it, you are justified in being annoyed at them.
But for you to rant for several sentences how everyone who dislikes it acts that way is even worse, because of the inherent hypocrisy of complaining about something while doing the same thing.
Meet ME. I am a person who hated Titanic. I do NOT think that everyone with sense also hates it. I have never encountered a single person who does think that everyone hates it. In fact, I feel just the opposite - I feel as though I am in the overwhelming minority to hate it. Even here on SDMB.
None of your counter-arguments address my actual reasons for disliking the movie:
The OP actually DID address 2 of my real objections, although the OP dismissed them as ridiculous:
And that’s what I REALLY think, so don’t put words in my mouth just to have an easy straw man target.
Now, in the past threads about movies, I may even have posted something including a passing reference to Titanic as being dreck, without presenting all these reason why I think so. That does NOT mean that I consider it a given that all others think it is dreck too.
And I really don’t appreciate being compared to tea-baggers…
That’s kind of what I was thinking. I have a mental picture of “sitting in a cafe talking about movies/books/tv/music” when I’m in this forum. So why not discuss food also? When you’re in a cafe you will usually talk about the food and drink you are having, or talk about the crappy food you’re not having.
Exactly. And personally, if I don’t immediately recognize the names, then I enjoy figuring out who they’re referring to. In the grand scheme of “peeves,” this one is pretty petty.
I loved “Titanic.” Love, love, loved it. I sat stunned for a couple of minutes after the movie ended, trying to process what I had just seen.
Another of my peeves is the people who have to come out of the woodwork to try to out-obscure each other when we’re talking about favourite this or that. I like to get ideas for new thing to try from threads like that; posting your favourite band that has put out a release of five albums and only two people in the world have heard of them is useless to me.
Also, links to videos that won’t play outside the US. 
I think its a real example, but it was a long time ago (like when I first joined the board), so its probably due for a repeat. Poach away.
Oh, hell yes! I actually wanted to start a thread once asking for different regional chili recipes but I knew, even if I put in a “please don’t do this”, I would get a ton of “beans/vegetables in chili are an abomination” posts.
I may have been guilty of saying “pineapple on pizza” is an abomination and if so I apologize, I still think it’s disgusting but I will endeavor not to do this again because it’s really annoying when someone does this about your food choices. Sure you can not like something and express an opinion but it’s how you do it and the attitude that your opinion is the only one that matters. And it’s really, really unnecessary when the thread is asking for recipes for a particular foodstuff and you have to chime in “take food item, chuck it in garbage, order a pizza”, really if you don’t like it stay out of the thread. Some other examples;
“Mayo is Satan’s spunk”
“Sardines taste like ass”
“Brussel sprouts should be banned”
and the ever popular “Sushi is bait”
Another “amen” to this I have walked away from numerous threads that turned in to just a bunch of “this” with YouTube links and no other explanation. Either I can’t open YouTube or it takes several minutes to load and by then I forgot why I was watching it. It would take hours to read an entire multiple page thread of these. And for crying out loud, it’s a thread on movie one-liners just quote the damn line don’t link to a 5 minute clip leading up to it.
Minor and only slightly annoying – starting a thread about a TV episode too early. That thread will drop off the first page because there’s nothing to say. Someone else will start a thread after the episode has aired, and then we have dueling threads. Conversely, starting a thread without at least looking at the first page to see if it’s been done.
Thirding, or fourthing?, this.
I have an old computer, it’s slow, I keep the speakers off. I almost never click on YouTube links. Give us a song title or some kind of clue so we know whether we want to start the clip or not.
“The only reason you don’t like popular restuarant/movie/band is because they’re popular!”
and “Yes, I know I’m not cool for liking <insert popular thing>”.
Yeah, there are reasons to dislike something other than it being popular.
Along with, “sushi is trendy & the trend will die any time now”
Maybe if you were posting from 1981.
People who start threads to say “Recommend a book to me” and that’s it. Nothing about what their interests are, or if they are leaning toward fiction or non-fiction, or if there are particular authors or genres they do not like, or anything that might give me a sense of what books I should recommend.
I think I’m very good at recommending books, so throw me a bone and tell me something about your interests. Even the inverse is helpful – I get that people are often looking for books outside of their usual zone, so say “I read a lot of mysteries, and would like to try something different.”
Also the reverse situation, where an OP does get specific and says something like “I’m looking for a book for a teenage girl who loves ice skating” and more than one person recommends something that is both 1. in no way related to what the OP described, and 2. one of the SDMB’s pet books, like LOTR or Guns, Germs and Steel.
People who dismiss rap as noise, all rappers as illiterate thugs, or the genre as just some passing fad. I’m not even a fan, but it annoys the crap out of me, and is obnoxious. Rapping is as much an art as any other form of self-expression, and you may hate it because it’s not rock, or it’s a black genre that hasn’t been taken over by whites, or because the scary men with their sagging pants offend your sensibilities, but get over it, and just accept that it’s very consistently popular and is in no more danger of dying than whatever kind of music you listen to.
I didn’t know either of those useful facts - thanks!
Exactly. I’m constantly amazed by the old fogey-ness of the people claiming “rap isn’t music” here.
I don’t get this. Why does it matter how many people have heard of them? If they’re somebody’s favorite, shouldn’t they share? I mean, if you really like to get ideas from those threads, I don’t see why something being obscure would stop you from checking it out.
I’m annoyed by how much people exaggerate when describing food they don’t like. No, that pizza crust does not taste like cardboard. No food tastes like cardboard. Go ahead and chew on some actual cardboard if you don’t believe me. The same goes for styrofoam. I can’t tell you how many people I’ve seen complain about the lack of flavor in food that I find perfectly flavorful (albeit a bit on the mild or subtle side); if they can’t discern the flavor, the shortcoming lies with them, not the food. I know people like to exaggerate when criticizing things, but comparing food to packing material (or worse, garbage or excrement) is lazy, not creative.
I have the exact opposite opinion. I don’t like it when people start threads on topics that tvtropes has already covered (usually in great detail) and act like they’re breaking new ground.
It bothers me mainly because there’s rarely a way to legally obtain a lot of this music.
Oh, your favorite band broke up in 1992 and only put out 1 CD that only sold 16 copies? How do I listen to it today?
The Game Room drives me absolutely batty. It’s a completely inappropriate division - what on earth do board games and video games have to do with sports? It’s like the Sports Channel 23 hours of the day and there’s something interesting on between 3 and 4 AM or something. Video and board games belong in Cafe Society.