Motorcycles with flames and/or skulls painted on them. That was overdone before I was born (60 years ago) and it just needs to stop. Either be original or stick to colors.
I’ll often respond to a bit of deadpan with deadpan of my own — not if the first silliness is very funny (then I’ll laugh), but if it’s weak or badly delivered I just won’t acknowledge the joke. So maybe you’re encountering a double whoosh.
My own, possibly rare, pet peeve: I don’t like the phrase, “pet peeve.” It seems like a cutesy bit of slang from 1950s/60s that should have died a quiet death decades ago. It reeks of Tiger Beat. It’s seems like a contemporary of “Sci-Fi”, but more annoying. (I don’t hate sci-fi.)
Ever work in a grocery store? It can be mind-numbingly boring. Heaven forbid a cashier try to entertain themselves by conversing with the customers. :rolleyes:
(Seriously, this is probably one of MY pet peeves: people who bitch about customer service employees who try to be pleasant and make conversation. They’re bored and trying to make the time go faster. It’s a seriously shitty job.)
And we aren’t there to entertain you with tales out of our personal lives. Seriously, it’s one thing to talk about the weather, it’s another thing to make personal remarks about whatever I’m buying. I’ve got nothing against you, I’m sure you make it charming, but I came to the store to buy stuff not to interact with people.
This is something that irritates me, but I didn’t include it before because I assumed it irritates lots of people. Maybe I was wrong.
The two local Sonic drive ins that I go to are lax about making their cherry limeades. If I don’t remind them they don’t put in the cherry and slice of lime. Complaining to the store or online to customer service doesn’t help. Maybe the next time the drink is done correctly, but after that it’s back to not doing it right.:mad:
Commenting on people’s food choices is rude. I don’t mind if my cashier want to make conversation, but lots of people are judgemental about what others eat, and lots of people have a lot of shame/guilt/negative emotions around what they eat. Food is PERSONAL. “That looks good” is pretty much the only allowable comment in any context, including a check out line.
Indeed, so this one is out of contention too.
Surely they will continue treating patients but treatment will end when they are better, not, sadly, when they dead. This is already happening for many cancers that are now survivable but a couple of decades ago were not.
You don’t even need to take the old one off. You just put them over last year’s sticker. (And I seem to remember the instructions on the plate sticker itself tell you to do exactly that.) I never realized people were idiotic enough to do something like put them any place other than where the last sticker was, in that recessed area. (Now I’m going to be obsessed with scanning plates to see this out in the wild.) They definitely deserve a ticket for being a moron.
Requiescat in pace, the use of which predated the Englilsh language.
You just reminded me of mine. These kids with their tricked-out cars that are like an inch above the ground are completely ridiculous, and I can’t for the life of me understand why they think it’s cool. This attitude of mine goes back 30 years, BTW, to when I was in high school.
But the part that really makes me roll my eyes so hard it hurts is when I see a spoiler on the back of the car. Really? You think your piece of shit is a fucking race car? This car that can’t go more that 25 miles per hour without risking damaging it?
As I understand it, the reason waiters/waitresses do this isn’t because they care about whether you like the food or not. Their reason is to defend against scammer customers who try to bum free meals off of them - “the food was awful” / “there was a fly in my soup” / “I’m allergic to this” - etc.
That way, if they ask you how the food is, and you say it’s good, but then later come back trying to scam them into giving you the meal for free by saying it was horrible, they can say “but I just asked you earlier and you said it was great.”
- I get ridiculously irked when people write “awe” when they mean “aw.”
“Meet our new baby, Tomato Lynn!”
“Awe!”
- One line in Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA”:
“I’m proud to be an American
where at least I know I’m free”
First, “an American” isn’t a place. You’re not a where.
Second, “at least” is what you say when you can’t say anything better:
“Yeah, my gramma has a mustache, but at least she combs it nicely.”
“OK, I fixed you up with a hideous drunk, but at least Pat’s a *clean *hideous drunk.”
So that’s the best you can say about the U.S.?
Third, “at least I know,” because God help those poor Canadians, running around free and all and not knowing it.
I’ve resorted to coughing fits to cover the line, it peeves me so much.
When someone says, “How do you do,” and doesn’t expect an answer. As far as rhetorical questions go, that’s a really weird one. Is it supposed to be a greeting? Please stop this madness!
When someone says, “How do you do,” and actually expects an answer. I don’t want to provide information about my health and emotional state. That stuff is private. Quit being so nosy!
No, no, and NO!
You guys don’t get it. It doesn’t matter if the wait staff is asking how the food is or if I want something else.
The point is when dining (especially in an upscale expensive restaurant) I want to be left the fuck alone until I call them over. I gave the example of how I’ve seen it done in other countries and it works quite nicely.
When I’m paying several hundred dollars for a nice meal and bottles of expensive wine I don’t want some blathering twit interrupting intimate conversation or enjoyment of the fare. That kind of philistinism is best done at greasy spoons and truck stop diners.
And if you don’t agree with me on this, please refer to the title of the thread! 
Oh yes. Yes, yes, yes.
And for Classical music, the only acceptable format is : Composer - Title (Soloist, Conductor, Orchestra/Ensemble)
I never said my pet peeve was rational --just answering the OP honestly. I’m sure being a cashier is a boring, thankless job. No argument there, didn’t mean to offend.
I thought it was fine, I have the same thoughts. You didn’t drop a bomb there, IMHO.
Mine are Facebook users who repost memes that are demonstrably false and are too damn lazy to fact check.
“Congress STOLE $4 Trillion from Social Security!”
“They don’t say the Pledge of Allegiance in school anymore!”
" ‘Illegals’ get $3874 per month from the government!"
I was in a hurry and had just checked out, rushing out of a convenience store, and the clerk chirped “Oh, oh! Wait! Would you like to donate $5 to breast cancer?” “Hell, no, I HATE breast cancer!”
Many of mine have been covered, so here’s a new one:
In TV dramas (I watch mostly police/detective/mystery stuff) as soon as someone comes home from work, s/he immediately opens a bottle of red wine, pours, and proceeds to drink from a long-stemmed glass. When eating dinner, whether homemade or take-out, again with the red wine in the stemmed wine glass. Tune in randomly to any drama where people are in the kitchen, whether eating, cooking, or going over the details of the murder, and they will be drinking red wine from stemmed glasses. WTF?
I’m not sure exactly what bugs me about this. Are people really drinking all this red wine? And from tall, stemmed wine glasses? Polishing off bottle after bottle? Every day? With or before every meal except breakfast?
I used to put away a LOT of wine back in the early 80s. Never used a wine glass, usually a coffee cup to minimize the possibility of spillage/breakage/cleanup-age.
I guess it’s the fact that it’s such a cliche. Aggravates the crap out of me.
I’ll go now.