# Peeves & Serendipities Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 12, 2017, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeves-serendipities-thread/798634 "2017-10-12T13:13:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Aufgeblassen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aufgeblassen/32/7321_2.png) [@Aufgeblassen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aufgeblassen)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeves-serendipities-thread/798634/1 "2017-10-12T13:13:33Z")
Kindly post here peeves and/or serendipities you wish to share, and/or comment on others’ postings on said items. I’ll get the ball rolling. I’m peeved that it appears one cannot link photos on this message board that show up directly on viewed thread. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeves-serendipities-thread/798634/2 "2017-10-12T16:05:06Z")
Speaking of sarandipities, Saran Wrap is no longer made with [saran](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saran_%28plastic%29), and _they don’t tell us_! ---
**Author:** ![Aufgeblassen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aufgeblassen/32/7321_2.png) [@Aufgeblassen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aufgeblassen)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeves-serendipities-thread/798634/3 "2017-10-12T16:10:23Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Speaking of sarandipities, Saran Wrap is no longer made with [saran](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saran_%28plastic%29), and _they don’t tell us_! Just like tin foil has not be tin for eons! 😉 (nor tin cans either) ---
**Author:** ![Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Springtime_for_Spacers)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeves-serendipities-thread/798634/4 "2017-10-12T17:24:17Z")
Posted in wrong thread . ---
**Author:** ![excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e8c25b/32.png) [@excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/excavating_for_a_mind)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeves-serendipities-thread/798634/5 "2017-10-13T02:18:58Z")
> [@Aufgeblassen](#): > > Kindly post here peeves and/or serendipities you wish to share, and/or comment on others’ postings on said items. > > I’ll get the ball rolling. > > I’m peeved that it appears one cannot link photos on this message board that show up directly on viewed thread. :mad: You’re not from around here, are you? ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeves-serendipities-thread/798634/6 "2017-10-13T02:23:44Z")
I’m peeved at this new commercial where some hipster girl in a gold top is walking down a street, and the background “magically!!!1111!” changes (CGI), then she starts to waif-sing about something, and reaches out and puts of a pork-pie hat. Finally, she meets up with her photographer. They both appear to be hipsters. I don’t have any idea what the product is. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeves-serendipities-thread/798634/7 "2017-10-13T07:06:34Z")
Sounds an ad for that lovely stuff: apple ale ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeves-serendipities-thread/798634/8 "2017-10-13T07:08:20Z")
Seriously, I am peeved at hipsters, what exactly are they trying to prove? ---
**Author:** ![lilihob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a9adbd/32.png) [@lilihob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lilihob)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeves-serendipities-thread/798634/9 "2017-10-13T11:31:30Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > I’m peeved at this new commercial where some hipster girl in a gold top is walking down a street, and the background “magically!!!1111!” changes (CGI), then she starts to waif-sing about something, and reaches out and puts of a pork-pie hat. > > Finally, she meets up with her photographer. They both appear to be hipsters. > > I don’t have any idea what the product is. Saw that, very, very, short hair hipster? They are advertising the camera affects on a mobile phone model that hipsters love. I find that inexplicably irritating. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeves-serendipities-thread/798634/10 "2017-10-13T11:57:17Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > I’m peeved at this new commercial where some hipster girl in a gold top is walking down a street, and the background “magically!!!1111!” changes (CGI), then she starts to waif-sing about something, and reaches out and puts of a pork-pie hat. Is that the one where the girl seems to weigh approximately three pounds? ---
**Author:** ![mind\_the\_gap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@mind\_the\_gap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mind_the_gap)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeves-serendipities-thread/798634/11 "2017-10-13T13:06:03Z")
I bet they’re playing that damn ukulele and toy piano music that seems so popular with this type of ad. That shit makes me get all Godzilla vs. Bambi.:mad: ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeves-serendipities-thread/798634/12 "2017-10-13T15:50:05Z")
The dreaded Hershey’s kisses ads have returned, with the dinky dinky music and the candies jumping around and wrapping themselves, just waiting to be crushed and digested. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeves-serendipities-thread/798634/13 "2017-10-13T16:20:13Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > The dreaded Hershey’s kisses ads have returned, with the dinky dinky music and the candies jumping around and wrapping themselves, just waiting to be crushed and digested. Oh, yeah-- I hate any commercial where food wants to be eaten. I am seriously creeped out by Cinnamon Toast Crunch commercials. ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeves-serendipities-thread/798634/14 "2017-10-13T17:13:22Z")
Serendipity contribution: I’ve needed to apply some vinyl stripes to my car and needed this little plastic thingy that smooths bubbles and helps keep stripes straight (I used to work in a sign shop, but can’t remember the name of this gadget). I went to the local speed/customizing shop and they offered to sell me one of their’s for $25 (these things cost about .25 in the industry). On Monday I noticed a cardboard box sitting in the parking lot and took a peek. Sitting there, in the box with nothing else in it, was this thingy. So I’ll be doing some striping this weekend! Peeve: My car randomly downloaded every single email address from Campus last week. I don’t know if the Bluetooth/Net connect contracted a demon or if I hit one of the many mysterious buttons in the car that commanded it to find and store 6 gazillion addresses. And I can’t figure out how to select the whole group to delete. ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeves-serendipities-thread/798634/15 "2017-10-13T17:16:02Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Oh, yeah-- I hate any commercial where food wants to be eaten. I am seriously creeped out by Cinnamon Toast Crunch commercials. Wasn’t there a hideous commercial a few years back that featured chickens talking about the best body parts they offered for eating? Really squicked me out. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeves-serendipities-thread/798634/16 "2017-10-13T17:54:56Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Speaking of serendipities, Saran Wrap is no longer made with [saran](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saran_%28plastic%29), and _they don’t tell us_! I didn’t know saran was a thing. Cool. My own personal best serendipity wouldn’t mean anything to anyone else. I once worked in a university lab and had taken a piece of equipment to the shop for repair. They gave me paperwork that had to be signed by the PI (Principal Investigator for the lab). As I was strategizing who to ask to see if he was even in the state that week, I walked into an elevator and there he was. I had the documents in my hand and a pen in my pocket. He signed as we went down, then I rode back up and turned the paperwork in. It was a harmonic convergence. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeves-serendipities-thread/798634/17 "2017-10-13T18:03:08Z")
The two of you (RivkahChaya and Jennshark)\* really\* want to not watch [this](https://youtu.be/bAF35dekiAY?t=87). ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeves-serendipities-thread/798634/18 "2017-10-13T19:33:24Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > I’m peeved at this new commercial where some hipster girl in a gold top is walking down a street, and the background “magically!!!1111!” changes (CGI), then she starts to waif-sing about something, and reaches out and puts of a pork-pie hat. > > Finally, she meets up with her photographer. They both appear to be hipsters. > > I don’t have any idea what the product is. It’s for Apple. But did you notice, the hat mysteriously disappears somewhere along the way. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeves-serendipities-thread/798634/19 "2017-10-13T19:35:09Z")
> [@Jennshark](#): > > Wasn’t there a hideous commercial a few years back that featured chickens talking about the best body parts they offered for eating? Really squicked me out. is that the California Chickens ad where out-of-state chickens are pretending to be from California so they can be more readily eaten? ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeves-serendipities-thread/798634/20 "2017-10-13T19:39:56Z")
My neighbors keep using some type of dryer-softener sheets for their laundry when drying it. It has this incredibly potent, soap odor that wafts out of the dryer vents when they do so, so strong that it lingers in the area for hours at end, so strong that I have to keep my doors/windows shut and one time even had to temporarily vacate the apartment until it was over. It gives a stomach-quaking, nose-irritating smell. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeves-serendipities-thread/798634.md?page=2)