# Pet Peeves only you have **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 7, 2018, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001 "2018-04-07T21:32:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 18
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2018, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/343 "2018-05-18T23:12:14Z")
I sometimes get “Dr. Professor Sharkington-McSharky” (I have a hyphenated name). Since hitting middle age I’m more casual with titles. I can agree that this may not be a great move for young faculty who sometimes need to establish authoritay. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2018, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/344 "2018-05-18T23:14:21Z")
People telling my girlfriend (when she is alone of course) what a good person she is for dating me. As if she is sacrificing her happiness in order to give me some semblance of a life. Her ticket to heaven is stamped and paid for. :rolleyes: ---
**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:** [May 19, 2018, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/345 "2018-05-19T11:59:51Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > People telling my girlfriend (when she is alone of course) what a good person she is for dating me. As if she is sacrificing her happiness in order to give me some semblance of a life. Her ticket to heaven is stamped and paid for. :rolleyes: Icky. I have gotten similar just for being friends with disabled or Deaf people, or worse, for getting PAID to work with disabled people (I was an ASL interpreter for 15 years, then for 7 years, I worked in community living services; most of my clients were autistic). They were JOBS. I was duly compensated. Sheesh. Your girlfriend can stop people in their tracks by telling people you are hung like a horse. I know a hearing woman married to a Deaf man who also has mild CP. Whenever someone starts to tell her she is a good person, or “noble,” she interrupts and says she married him for his huge dick. Wow, does that shut people up. I love being there when she does that. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2018, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/346 "2018-05-19T22:09:34Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Icky. I have gotten similar just for being friends with disabled or Deaf people, or worse, for getting PAID to work with disabled people (I was an ASL interpreter for 15 years, then for 7 years, I worked in community living services; most of my clients were autistic). They were JOBS. I was duly compensated. Sheesh. > > Your girlfriend can stop people in their tracks by telling people you are hung like a horse. I know a hearing woman married to a Deaf man who also has mild CP. Whenever someone starts to tell her she is a good person, or “noble,” she interrupts and says she married him for his huge dick. Wow, does that shut people up. I love being there when she does that. The funny thing is, most of the women who tell her these things are women I wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole. And it doesn’t really matter whether or not she tells them I’m hung like a horse. They’d just say, “Aww, it’s too bad he can’t use it.” ☹ 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/347 "2018-05-24T19:37:51Z")
When you want to look up a pharmaceutical product, Wikipedia redirects you to its primary ingredient, so you can’t find out about previous formulations that have been changed. For instance: The cold medicine Contac used to contain a small amount of atropine in addition to a decongestant and antihistamine, and I’d like to know more about the atropine component. I’m pretty sure I know why the atropine was taken out; evidently it was possible to get high on Contac and some people were abusing it. But why had the atropine been included in the first place? What was it supposed to do for the consumer? Wikipedia can’t help me here because when I search for Contac all I get is the article on pseudoephedrine. ---
**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:** [May 25, 2018, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/348 "2018-05-25T18:24:07Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > When you want to look up a pharmaceutical product, Wikipedia redirects you to its primary ingredient, so you can’t find out about previous formulations that have been changed. > > For instance: The cold medicine Contac used to contain a small amount of atropine in addition to a decongestant and antihistamine, and I’d like to know more about the atropine component. I’m pretty sure I know why the atropine was taken out; evidently it was possible to get high on Contac and some people were abusing it. But why had the atropine been included in the first place? What was it supposed to do for the consumer? Wikipedia can’t help me here because when I search for Contac all I get is the article on pseudoephedrine. According to [drugs.com](http://drugs.com) “Atropine is used to help reduce saliva, mucus, or other secretions in your airway during a surgery.” So I imagine Contac contained it for the same reasons-- to reduce mucous and other secretions. According, again, to [drugs.com](http://drugs.com), sure enough, some people can get high off atropine, and were abusing Contac. All I did was Google “Why did Contac previously contain atropine?” and the [drugs.com](http://drugs.com) page on atropine was the third page to come up. Just Google exactly what you want to know, instead of going to Wikipedia, and then looking up your topic. I mean, I can’t personally vouch for [drugs.com](http://drugs.com), but I wouldn’t vouch for Wikipedia either. _Sigh_ I remember the days when cold OTC medicines actually worked, before they had to lose every ingredient that had any potential for abuse. Now all they contain are things that don’t do anything to you-- which means, THEY DON’T DO ANYTHING TO YOU! ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2018, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/349 "2018-05-25T21:06:50Z")
Perzactly :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/350 "2018-05-26T01:45:15Z")
> [@Mr.Lebodnik](#): > > It bothers me when I read or hear someone say “could care less” instead of “couldn’t care less”. I mean, just think about it. It’s a minor pet peeve of mine that this is a pet peeve of other people. I’ve always understood the phrase to be “I could care less” but dripping with sarcasm. A short way of saying “Yeah I could totally care less about whatever :rolleyes::rolleyes:” > [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Another thing that unreasonably irritates me is when people refer to Disney World and / or the adjacent parks as just “Disney”, as in “we’re going to Disney this weekend”. I’ve never minded it because when they say “we’re going to Disney” the follow up question is always “oh really? Which park?” I mean…it is all Disney technically… ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/351 "2018-05-27T02:27:43Z")
I have no idea if anyone else is bothered by this, but after having done decades of data entry, it bugs me when I’m filling in numerical fields for things that have a set number of characters, and the program doesn’t automatically move me to the next field when I have entered the correct number of characters. Now I’ve got to grab my mouse, manoeuvre my cursor over to the next field, click on it, and start typing, instead of just continuing to type. {Dramatic sigh.} (I am aware that I can possibly tab over to the next field, but that isn’t a guarantee, and mousing over to the next field is.) ---
**Author:** ![blob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blob/32/489_2.png) [@blob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blob)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/352 "2018-05-27T02:58:21Z")
> [@Isamu](#): > > And pedestrians crossing the street like to be able to see who is wanting to turn. Not the ones looking at their mobile phones while they wander about into traffic. :mad: Even worse are the ones who have a pusher with a little kid out in front. If you want to get run over because you can’t remove your attention from your device,ok, but when you’ve got a little kid at risk, PAY ATTENTION. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/353 "2018-05-27T03:03:52Z")
> [@blob](#): > > Not the ones looking at their mobile phones while they wander about into traffic. :mad: Even worse are the ones who have a pusher with a little kid out in front. If you want to get run over because you can’t remove your attention from your device,ok, but when you’ve got a little kid at risk, PAY ATTENTION. I’ve seen parents standing at a corner, waiting for a light, with their baby in the pushcar stuck out in traffic. We should maybe consider setting the requirements a bit higher to become a parent. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/354 "2018-05-27T03:56:03Z")
> [@Johanna](#): > > It drives me nuts how the definite article “the” gets capitalized all the time now in names. When I was a kid, we listened to the Beatles. Now, only in recent years, decades after the band ceased existing, they’re supposed to be “The” Beatles. Long ago we read the New York Times, but now it’s supposed to be “The” New York Times. Lately people have started proliferating the illicit capitalization into madness, to the point where you can see “the” capitalized in the middle of a sentence, no matter what the name is: random example, “we visited The Grand Canyon” instead of “the Grand Canyon.” > [@Leo\_Krupe](#): > > I get what you’re saying, but one exception would be The Who. I think we’ve done this more than once before, but for band names presumably it should depend on whether the band choose to make “The” part of the proper name of the band. For “The Who” is certainly is, and I can’t quite remember but I think it’s the same with “The Beatles”. Eventually the conversation always turns to “[The The](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_The)”. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/355 "2018-05-30T02:39:25Z")
I hate when somebody says _No way!_ and the other person says _Yes way!_. For one thing, the second expression isn’t a grammatically correct antonym of the first one. For another thing, it sounds so much better to just say _Way!_. _Yes way_ sounds like what a parent says to a recalcitant toddler. ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/356 "2018-05-30T12:39:21Z")
Trivial, but that’s why it’s a peeve: Not closing cupboards and drawers all the way. Walked into the kitchen this morning to discover the silverware drawer open an inch, ditto another drawer. Two cupboard doors were also slightly agape. I shouldn’t be surprised - walk into her room and half her dresser drawers are not closed. ---
**Author:** ![Calatin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Calatin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calatin)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/357 "2018-05-30T12:46:24Z")
The word “furbaby,” when people refer to their pet. Also, the word “veggie.” There’s an ad on the radio that talks about this power drink made up of “fruits and veggies.” You’re an adult. You can say “vegetables.” Honestly, a lot of my peeves involve the usage of words or abbreviations. And, whoever says, “I fed my furbaby some moist veggies” can just go die in a fire. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/358 "2018-05-30T12:50:52Z")
Okay, I won’t, but how about if I just [link to](https://xkcd.com/919/) someone who does? ---
**Author:** ![TheBori](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ee7513/32.png) [@TheBori](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheBori)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/359 "2018-05-30T18:00:18Z")
When the self-service gas pump tells me that I must “See clerk for your receipt”. Those words will be what spews from my foaming lips when I set fire to the damn gas station. Take a minute and put some paper in the damn printer. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2018, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/360 "2018-06-01T21:42:34Z")
I didn’t read the whole thread. Just came to post this: AARRGGH!!! \ You go to a web address and try to scroll to the thing you’re looking for and there’s so much animation that the page jumps around while it’s loading and makes [del]you[/del] me scream! I’m sure I’m not the only one bothered by this. I’ve been adding recipes to PepperPlate and recipe sites are really bad about this jumping around and loading all kinds of animations and extra crap. That is all. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2018, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/361 "2018-06-01T21:45:02Z")
> [@TheBori](#): > > When the self-service gas pump tells me that I must “See clerk for your receipt”. Those words will be what spews from my foaming lips when I set fire to the damn gas station. Take a minute and put some paper in the damn printer. I hate this too. (although I seldom need a receipt) Even worse, “See attendant” because it couldn’t read my card or something. I will actually drive to a different gas station rather than walk a few feet to see the attendant. I guess I figure t he attendant won’t be able to fix the problem anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2018, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/362 "2018-06-01T22:49:27Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I didn’t read the whole thread. Just came to post this: > > AARRGGH!!! \ > > You go to a web address and try to scroll to the thing you’re looking for and there’s so much animation that the page jumps around while it’s loading and makes [del]you[/del] me scream! > > I’m sure I’m not the only one bothered by this. > > I’ve been adding recipes to PepperPlate and recipe sites are really bad about this jumping around and loading all kinds of animations and extra crap. > > That is all. Thank you. Oh this pisses me off to no end! The worst is when you go to click on something and the page jumps a split second before you click and you end up clicking something else. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001.md?page=17) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001.md?page=19)