# Post your most trivial pet peeves **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 18, 2002, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-most-trivial-pet-peeves/137255 "2002-11-18T03:16:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Raymond\_Luxury\_Yacht](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raymond_luxury_yacht/32/4099_2.png) [@Raymond\_Luxury\_Yacht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raymond_Luxury_Yacht)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-most-trivial-pet-peeves/137255/121 "2002-11-22T16:14:53Z")
When people refer to the first movie of a series by adding a “one” to it, as in Jaws I or Airplane I. No movie EVER made is titled in that way. A sequel will often have a Roman numeral II (first used by Coppola with Godfather II) after the original title to differentiate it from the original. It’s Jaws, not Jaws I or even Jaws part one. People who shove into a subway car before letting outgoing passengers exit. AARGH! ---
**Author:** ![ForgottenLore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5e9695/32.png) [@ForgottenLore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ForgottenLore)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-most-trivial-pet-peeves/137255/122 "2002-11-22T18:58:28Z")
I only have one that I know of. For some reason when I’m sitting in a meeting it absolutely sets my teeth on edge if anyone there uses any derivation of the word “proactive” or the phrase “going forward,” e.g. “We should buy this software now, proactively, rather than later so that we are prepared for future requirements going forward.” AAARRRGGGHHH!!! NEITHER of those contribute ANYTHING to the sentence! Whew, I feel better. ---
**Author:** ![liltruthie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ac91a4/32.png) [@liltruthie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liltruthie)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-most-trivial-pet-peeves/137255/123 "2002-11-22T23:17:17Z")
I do something stupid fairly often it seems. Like responding to erictv’s post to Honey. (Thanks Scarlett 67). I consider myself intelligent, sometimes even creative but I have a real fear of being stupid. Sorry folks! Esp. erictv, his bro and honey… I SO wanted to be someone’s honey. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![abby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@abby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abby)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2002, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-most-trivial-pet-peeves/137255/124 "2002-11-24T01:54:15Z")
hm, surprised no one has brought this one up yet (maybe I am alone in it?): Protesting hippies who have NO IDEA what they are protesting against. “it’s just bad,man,” they say, while toking on a joint. These guys and girls are like rent a crowd, and I have NO respect for them (regardless if I agree with what they are protesting against). abby ---
**Author:** ![Eleusis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2002, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-most-trivial-pet-peeves/137255/125 "2002-11-24T07:09:45Z")
Thanks, **abby**. Globalization is bad! Why? Uhhh, _toke_, big corporations are evil! ---
**Author:** ![Soup\_du\_jour](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Soup\_du\_jour](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soup_du_jour)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2002, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-most-trivial-pet-peeves/137255/126 "2002-11-24T08:19:43Z")
Sleeping through my alarm. I even set two of them sometimes, just in case. Still doesn’t work. Grrr. The fact that the kitchen doors in the basement (I’m in a college dorm) lock automatically. My dishes are drying down there, and I cannot get to them until morning. Strangely, this happens to many folks here. Related to #2, sometimes the elevator won’t come even when you call it. The little light just goes out sometimes, for no reason at all. People who don’t say anything back when I give a friendly “good morning.” The “word” _irregardless_. It’s not a freakin’ word, people! Stop using it! One more thanks to **abby**. I was going to add in my disdain for “Calvin Klein Communists.” My bloody computer. It’s a top-of-the-line Dell 8200, just bought new in August. Will it run DVDs without skipping? No-siree! Lord of the Rings (the Extended Edition, no less) doesn’t have that “flow” with skipping every time we reach Balin’s tomb, Lothlorien, and the climactic battle scene of the breaking of the fellowship. I’m done. ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2002, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-most-trivial-pet-peeves/137255/127 "2002-11-24T08:24:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by abby \* > \*\*hm, surprised no one has brought this one up yet (maybe I am alone in it?): > > Protesting hippies who have NO IDEA what they are protesting against. “it’s just bad,man,” they say, while toking on a joint. These guys and girls are like rent a crowd, and I have NO respect for them (regardless if I agree with what they are protesting against). > > abby \*\* Ever been to Nimbin? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2002, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-most-trivial-pet-peeves/137255/128 "2002-11-24T08:28:51Z")
Misspellings. Especially the word misspellings. Especially on billboards or in advertisements. Teachers getting pissy about me using British spellings instead of American ones. So what if was born and raised in Wisconsin? I like to spell it colour, grey, and behaviour. People in my AP English class laughing when I say something intelligent or use some bit of trivial knowledge. I know I’m not the only one who knows that the Victorians are the ones who implemented the umpteen forks, spoons, and knives etiquette thing. When I’m the only who gets the sex metaphors in the poems we analyze in class. People being shocked when I swear. I don’t do it often, true, but it’s not like I’ve kissed your mother. With tongue. The fact that people consider me too smart for my own good. Rar. People who say “I hate you” when they discover you got a 100% on a test/quiz/whatever or that you’re doing better than them in a class. And now I sound like like I’m a brain walking around in a jar. And prissy brain to boot. _sigh_ I think it’s safe to say that my intelligence is one of my major hangups. I should hide it under a bushel basket. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2002, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-most-trivial-pet-peeves/137255/129 "2002-11-24T08:32:15Z")
Oh, and the people who think the Jews killed Christ. He WAS a Jew, his family were Jews . . . _sigh_ Religious intolerance, basically. The fact that there’s a single coffee-coloured person in my school. Everybody else is German, English, or Scandinavian and Christian. We’re like a gigantic vat of very pale vanilla pudding. I want diversity, damn it. ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2002, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-most-trivial-pet-peeves/137255/130 "2002-11-24T10:06:19Z")
What’s been bothering me the most lately is when people misspell words unique to certain phrases, such as _throes_ or _piqued_. Precisely what comes to a climax when your curiosity becomes “peaked”? And exactly what happens when you’re in the “throws” of passion? Does spooge get tossed about? ---
**Author:** ![gex\_gex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@gex\_gex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gex_gex)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2002, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-most-trivial-pet-peeves/137255/131 "2002-11-24T13:46:19Z")
> [@](#): > > What’s been bothering me the most lately is when people misspell words unique to certain phrases, such as throes or piqued. Precisely what comes to a climax when your curiosity becomes “peaked”? And exactly what happens when you’re in the “throws” of passion? Does spooge get tossed about? site! And along the same lines and unique to this board, people who do not know the difference between **cite** , **site** and even **sight**! They aren’t synonyms, people (although a site is often used as a cite). ---
**Author:** ![New\_Improved\_Scott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f17d59/32.png) [@New\_Improved\_Scott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/New_Improved_Scott)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2002, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-most-trivial-pet-peeves/137255/132 "2002-11-24T21:01:12Z")
People who talk about the X-Men and spell “Rogue” as “Rouge”. Drives me batty. ---
**Author:** ![Azure\_Eternity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f05b48/32.png) [@Azure\_Eternity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azure_Eternity)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2002, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-most-trivial-pet-peeves/137255/133 "2002-11-24T21:53:33Z")
For some reason, incorrect capitalization really bothers me. like when people don’t capitalize the word at the beginning of a sentence or capitalize Random words. Another thing that irritates me is when people don’t get a joke and respond to snippily correct someone (as people often do to Dave Barry - grrrr). And finally, posters who always go for the obvious joke and say, “Well, somebody had to do it!” For instance, somebody will inevitably reply to this post with, “You didn’t capitalize ‘like’ in the second sentence! 😃 :: D & R ::” This is especially annoying when the OP predicts the joke and someone says it anyway. Have some originality, people! ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-most-trivial-pet-peeves/137255/134 "2002-11-25T03:14:53Z")
Hehe, reading this list I now know that I must be a trully annoying person. I’ve been sitting here doing alot of 'done that… done that… still do that." For an actual pet peeve to contribute, I hate automatic toilets and urinals. It seemed like a good idea when it was new, but now it has reached the critical mass where I am starting to expect it, and occasionally just walk away. Which sucks because there have been a frightening number of times lately when I have walked into my bathroom to see a big ol output hanging around and stinking things up because I am out of the habit of taking care of it myself. I also hate people who are way to concerned about how their name is pronounced. Just because I hit it wrong on my first attempt doesn’t mean you need to jump up my ass. I also hate people who demand to know how my last name is pronounced. There are a lot of sylables, with various pronouncable groupings, and sound choices. Anything that is close I will recognize, and respond to. But Don’t keep asking me “But how is it really pronounced” because I have no idea! I didn’t choose it, and I have no idea what the proper pronunciation is, and I don’t care. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-most-trivial-pet-peeves/137255/135 "2002-11-25T03:26:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by yosemitebabe \* > \*\*Also, calling soft drinks like Coke or Pepsi “pop”. What popped? Nothing popped. It’s a damn drink! (Yeah, yeah, I know, it’s a regional thing, and I am currently exiled in Hooterville, where everyone calls it pop. And it is irritating!) \*\* I asked for Orangeade at a fastfood restraunt and got a blank face in reply (sort of visuall “huh?”). T Then asked “do you sell orangeade?” After shortish pause (slow brain accessing distant past - when people used to refer to things by their name - to work out what ‘Orangeade’ is) - “oh, you mean fanta?” “Yeah, fanta, a brand of Orangeade” ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-most-trivial-pet-peeves/137255/136 "2002-11-25T03:42:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lobsang \* > \*\*I asked for Orangeade at a fastfood restraunt and got a blank face in reply (sort of visuall “huh?”). T > > Then asked “do you sell orangeade?” > > After shortish pause (slow brain accessing distant past - when people used to refer to things by their name - to work out what ‘Orangeade’ is) - “oh, you mean fanta?” > > “Yeah, fanta, a brand of Orangeade” \*\* So THAT’s what Orangeade is! I always wondered what the famous five kept drinking. You wacky brits! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Azure\_Eternity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f05b48/32.png) [@Azure\_Eternity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azure_Eternity)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-most-trivial-pet-peeves/137255/137 "2002-11-26T02:09:28Z")
Originally posted by **Wolfman** > [@](#): > > I also hate people who demand to know how my last name is pronounced. There are a lot of sylables, with various pronouncable groupings, and sound choices. Anything that is close I will recognize, and respond to. But Don’t keep asking me “But how is it really pronounced” because I have no idea! I didn’t choose it, and I have no idea what the proper pronunciation is, and I don’t care. I have the same problem. People always insist that I teach them how to say my last name, which is Finnish and very difficult for most people to pronounce. ---
**Author:** ![Siemsi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b19c9b/32.png) [@Siemsi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siemsi)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-most-trivial-pet-peeves/137255/138 "2002-11-27T18:22:35Z")
Ditto for me… People who walk to damn slow. Get out of my way! People who do not hold doors open for me…hello? Manners? Young men who don’t know how to hold doors open for women. (Sorry, I’m old-fashioned). ---
**Author:** ![XJETGIRLX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9fc29f/32.png) [@XJETGIRLX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XJETGIRLX)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-most-trivial-pet-peeves/137255/139 "2002-11-27T18:40:17Z")
Maybe I could get some feedback on this one as it always seems to shock others that it annoys the hell out of me: When I am in a social/public/work setting (i.e., not alone) and I either have brought a snack (i.e. peanut M&Ms) for my own enjoyment or am otherwise enjoying something I have had the forethought to bring with (i.e. pack of gum, smokes, etc.) and someone asks bluntly “Can I have one?” or worse yet, they demand: “Gimme one of those, would ya?” Maybe it’s just me, but I want to scream at them “Get your own freakin’ M&Ms ya bloody wank!” Needless to say, I rarely oblige, and I am then looked at as though I were a leper. Or maybe it’s just that I’m really tiny and have a complex about bigger predators stealing food from me. Am I wrong? ---
**Author:** ![XJETGIRLX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9fc29f/32.png) [@XJETGIRLX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XJETGIRLX)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-most-trivial-pet-peeves/137255/140 "2002-11-27T18:47:19Z")
Ooops…sorry, didn’t mean to sound like a _total_wank. Not to be interpreted as I don’t like sharing, just that if I wanted to share I would offer first. I think it’s blatantly rude to ask someone to share something with you. If you must, I think it should be phrased something like: “Would you mind terribly if I asked for an M&M?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-most-trivial-pet-peeves/137255.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-most-trivial-pet-peeves/137255.md?page=8)