Pet Peeves

[mocat]

farmstyle might just mean fatter

it doesn't mean anything

[Cartierfor3]

I feel like I know what I'm getting when I purchase a farm style sour dough loaf.

[cfbandyman]

Have we discussed people who don't understand the most basic manners for school music concerts?
Sit still.
Be quiet.
Make the kids who are with you sit still and be quiet.
Do not get up and move around during a song unless you believe that you are having a medical emergency that would cause you to die in the next ten minutes.

Don't get me started. It blows my mind the amount of adults incapable of being quiet and sitting still. It's a concert, not a football game.

I mean, these kids have been preparing for the concert for months. Would you or your kid wander around under the basket while someone was shooting free throws with five seconds left in the game? Just totally uncivilized, horrible behavior.

My mom and sister (or any teacher for that matter) could probably write an entire book on how shitty parents and their behavior has become. It's so stupid. I do also think (and this is not to make it the 'pit) covid is a big big driver of this. I think being stuck at home not having to be social has mumped up so many people. It's atrocious on airplanes for example.

[Cartierfor3]

Yes. Many people are very anti-social. Regardless of what you think of organized religion, having an hour a week where you sit still and listen to someone else is very good for people. Many people aren't able to sit still for long enough to get bored.

[mocat]

yeah one of the benefits of church is that even if you're not engaged or anything, it's like 1 free hour of meditation.

[ben ji]

On a similar note the farmers dog dogfood ads are a pet peeve of mine. They show these refrigerated packages of fresh whatever it is implying thats what a farmers dog eats because farmers obviously prepare their dogs some elaborate homemade meal every night.

The actual farmers dog is eating kibble and maybe some table scraps and has a 50/50 shot of an early death after getting into the rat poison or getting run over by a car/tractor.

[cfbandyman]

Yes. Many people are very anti-social. Regardless of what you think of organized religion, having an hour a week where you sit still and listen to someone else is very good for people. Many people aren't able to sit still for long enough to get bored.

That is pretty true. Being bored is, kinda a good thing, in doses

[schreds21]

On a similar note the farmers dog dogfood ads are a pet peeve of mine. They show these refrigerated packages of fresh whatever it is implying thats what a farmers dog eats because farmers obviously prepare their dogs some elaborate homemade meal every night.

The actual farmers dog is eating kibble and maybe some table scraps and has a 50/50 shot of an early death after getting into the rat poison or getting run over by a car/tractor.

Yeah.  Farm dogs eat a diet of Old Roy and whatever carrion they find laying around.

[TheHamburglar]

People that put down blankets to save seats at any event immediately makes me angry.

[star seed 7]

On a similar note the farmers dog dogfood ads are a pet peeve of mine. They show these refrigerated packages of fresh whatever it is implying thats what a farmers dog eats because farmers obviously prepare their dogs some elaborate homemade meal every night.

The actual farmers dog is eating kibble and maybe some table scraps and has a 50/50 shot of an early death after getting into the rat poison or getting run over by a car/tractor.

Yeah.  Farm dogs eat a diet of Old Roy and whatever carrion they find laying around.

Hunting dogs on the other hand....

[BIG APPLE CAT]

Hey grocery stores…what gives with this whole putting out extravagant Valentine’s Day arrangements a week and a half before Valentine’s Day? What am I supposed to do with that? Do you think I’m oscar Wayne? That I have a bat cave where I can keep this for the next 7-10 days? And these are flowers, are they still going to look as fresh and as vibrant as the love I feel for my special lady when I give them to her in a week or will they be wilted and barely clinging to life? Or am I a sadistic jerk who’s gunna bring home this glorious monument of my love and then be like “now hunnybuns, no enjoying this until 2/14! I don’t want to catch you sneaking a whiff of these roses! I’ll know if you do!!! I know EVERYTHING you do I’m always monitoring your every move, I love you so much I just don’t know what I would do if you ever betrayed me...!!!!👀🕵????”

Perhaps the larger point…valentines day is the day where we need to acknowledge that on this day it’s imperative to break from societal norms as it pertains to shopping. If you get your Christmas shopping done by Black Friday, you’re considered thoughtful, prepared, adequate as a provider and protector and sex-haver. Get your Valentine’s Day shopping done by February 12th and you are a literal psychopath.

WHY DO YOU TAUNT ME OH CRUEL GROCER?! Can’t you just do us all a favor and like, put out a 2D display with a photo of many a beautiful red and pink trinkets with big letters saying “STAY TUNED! COMING 2/13….!”

I completely understand why Valentine’s Day is the most panned of all holidays. It draws the ire of 3 distinct demographics of people…the incel non-havers, the ones who resent that we have this completely manufactured holiday dedicated to the wanton consumerism that is this late stage capitalistic hellscape we call “being alive and participating in society”, and then of course, the people who just hate logistical nightmares.

Amen.

[Stupid Fitz]

People that put down blankets to save seats at any event immediately makes me angry.

The SW people really get me. I can totally get saving a seat for someone that failed to check in on time, but there should be a penalty. You can't save a seat within the first 15 or so rows or something. Also, saving multiple seats and across the aisle is kicked off the plane territory.

[Kat Kid]

People that put down blankets to save seats at any event immediately makes me angry.

The SW people really get me. I can totally get saving a seat for someone that failed to check in on time, but there should be a penalty. You can't save a seat within the first 15 or so rows or something. Also, saving multiple seats and across the aisle is kicked off the plane territory.

I do not respect SW seat saver’s wishes. Those are not the rules of the game.

I just say “sorry” and give the frown smile.

[mocat]

People that put down blankets to save seats at any event immediately makes me angry.

The SW people really get me. I can totally get saving a seat for someone that failed to check in on time, but there should be a penalty. You can't save a seat within the first 15 or so rows or something. Also, saving multiple seats and across the aisle is kicked off the plane territory.

I do not respect SW seat saver’s wishes. Those are not the rules of the game.

I just say “sorry” and give the frown smile.

Awful business model, but they ended that policy, correct?

[Sandstone Outcropping]

People that put down blankets to save seats at any event immediately makes me angry.

Old(er) folks who bring those folding chair back things to games and sit down right in front of you and obliterate the leg room that you were enjoying. That stupid thing requires a column of two seats in the bleachers to properly use.

[Kat Kid]

People that put down blankets to save seats at any event immediately makes me angry.

The SW people really get me. I can totally get saving a seat for someone that failed to check in on time, but there should be a penalty. You can't save a seat within the first 15 or so rows or something. Also, saving multiple seats and across the aisle is kicked off the plane territory.

I do not respect SW seat saver’s wishes. Those are not the rules of the game.

I just say “sorry” and give the frown smile.

Awful business model, but they ended that policy, correct?

People will still try to put stuff on the middle seat during boarding.

[star seed 7]

Protip, be a fat wide shouldered guy and never get someone in the middle seat.

[Stupid Fitz]

People that put down blankets to save seats at any event immediately makes me angry.

The SW people really get me. I can totally get saving a seat for someone that failed to check in on time, but there should be a penalty. You can't save a seat within the first 15 or so rows or something. Also, saving multiple seats and across the aisle is kicked off the plane territory.

I do not respect SW seat saver’s wishes. Those are not the rules of the game.

I just say “sorry” and give the frown smile.

Same, when traveling for work and by myself, I ask them if that is their stuff and if they say yes, I kindly ask them to move it. More often than not they do and give you a pissy look, but I just sit down and put my headphones in. Had a lady a few flights ago sit in the middle seat on one side and crap in every seat on the other side. She was in like the 5th row doing this. Sorry mam, i'm taking that window. She was pissed.

[114Hickory]

Do you think I’m oscar Wayne?

 

[TheHamburglar]

When a waiter or waitress says “if your service was good my name is *real name* if your service was bad my name is *fake name*.”

[BIG APPLE CAT]

When a waiter or waitress says “if your service was good my name is *real name* if your service was bad my name is *fake name*.”

I’ve never heard that but if I did I believe I would let out something north of chuckle but south of guffaw

[ben ji]

When they switched the KS Turnpike/I-70 toll from pay in person to online my account got messed up somehow. I have two vehicles and they only have one vehicle on that account. When I log in to pay my bill it says I don't have any charges so I have to wait until I get the mailed statement and pay an extra $1.50 or something and I can't set up autopay because my account doesn't actually get charged. 

I've tried to add my other vehicle to my account but it says that the license plate is associated with another account but there is no way to request that account info/password reset etc. Both vehicles are registered to me at the same address and I just don't want to spend 30 minutes on the phone with the KS Turnpike to get it all figured out.

 

Finally got around to calling them and getting it sorted out. 10 minutes on hold but once I got someone on the line they got it fixed in like 5 minutes.

[Kat Kid]

When they switched the KS Turnpike/I-70 toll from pay in person to online my account got messed up somehow. I have two vehicles and they only have one vehicle on that account. When I log in to pay my bill it says I don't have any charges so I have to wait until I get the mailed statement and pay an extra $1.50 or something and I can't set up autopay because my account doesn't actually get charged. 

I've tried to add my other vehicle to my account but it says that the license plate is associated with another account but there is no way to request that account info/password reset etc. Both vehicles are registered to me at the same address and I just don't want to spend 30 minutes on the phone with the KS Turnpike to get it all figured out.

 

Finally got around to calling them and getting it sorted out. 10 minutes on hold but once I got someone on the line they got it fixed in like 5 minutes.

Look at you.

[michigancat]

When you get into a rental car and the bass is cranked up on the stereo

[Cartierfor3]

closed caption/subtitles are getting too common