Pet Peeves

[Genghis Ares]

I hate seeing the same commericial twice in one break.

[Evil Jim]

Seeing an add for ENN immediately after watching ENN. Seriously, we're already there.

[Genghis Ares]

Yeah, I don't get that either. What's the point in that ad?

[Master Gunner]

The Escapist seems to have a system to apply adds to the end of its videos. However, this will automatically apply the add for their latest show or whatever to ALL of their videos. Including ENN.

At least, I think that's how it is.

[TheRocket]

Speaking of commercials.. I'm starting to get annoyed with the "credit and university jingles".

Stop singing about your scams and crappy faux college courses.

[the amativeness]

Pet Peeve:

Watching one of LRR's old Revver videos, and having Revver put a 30-second ad in front of the video.

Grrr...

[King Kool]

I thought it was Blip that did that, not Revver.

[Genghis Ares]

Speaking of commercials.. I'm starting to get annoyed with the "credit and university jingles".

Stop singing about your scams and crappy faux college courses.

ooo.. I really hate those FreeCreditReport.com jingles. I think I know a university one as well with some girl singing that really gets into your head and tries to rape your soul.

[Mister Fiend]

I hate the freecreditreport.com one where he's singing about how he should have never married a woman with bad credit. Because love depends on how much money your partner has.

[King Kool]

He didn't marry a woman with bad credit. When you get divorced, your credit goes in the toilet.

[korri]

Once I was in a store and one of the free credit report jingles was played as though it was a real song. that was weird

[Genghis Ares]

Also, I really, really hate the Dr. Scholl's foot pad commericials with the people who are "Gellin'".

[TorachiKatashi]

- People who, upon hearing a cover or remix of their favourite song that they don't like, will go to to every YouTube video of it to rant in poor English about how it "is a disgrace" to the original, and freaks out on anyone who DOES like it, as opposed to just not listening to the song like a normal person.

- People who put emphasis on the N in words where the N is commonly silent or soft. Eg, goverNment, enviroNment.

Also, I really, really hate the Dr. Scholl's foot pad commericials with the people who are "Gellin'".

Has anyone seen this new ad for the Dr. Scholl's stuff for burning off skin tags? It's... REALLY creepy. Maddox did a thing once about ads that try to portray a genuine child/parent relationship and just come off as some crazy pedo stuff, and this is definitely one of them.

[Lord Chrusher]

That the new CBC Radio 3 player does not have a repeat feature.

People who create gaming treads in the General Discussion forum

[empath]

- People who put emphasis on the N in words where the N is commonly silent or soft. Eg, goverNment, enviroNment.

We do that because people (not you personally) have a tendency to DROP THE N when writing 'enviroment' or 'goverment'.

On a related note, people who say 'probly', dropping an entire syllable, make me want to gut them with a blunt instrument like a spoon or a ruler.


Taking it on the road, I join many in berating people for not knowing what that lever sticking out of their steering column is for.

I really love people who, despite driving around a given neighbourhood for years or decades, magically forget where lanes are, which lane goes in which direction, how far into the intersection to stop, etc. the second we get enough snow to cover the pavement.

Also those people who drive oblivious to their surroundings - e.g. multi-lane road, begin passing construction signs and there's a 'road narrows' sign easily visible ahead. The precious types who HAVE to wait until the last possible second to merge into the one remaining lane, even though they had maybe 100yards to do so.


In general, people: ALL of us - you, me, my otherwise wonderful wife, my idols, my enemies, etc. We ALL do stupid and annoying things, sadly. At least in most cases, either it's not all the time or I'm not AROUND, so I don't notice it. Sorry for being selfish - it's probably someone's pet peeve, anyway.

[TorachiKatashi]

I don't drive. I'm old enough to, but I choose not to, and likely will continue to choose not to.

Just because I've spent many years watching Newfies drive, and it scares me.

[Cake]

Also those people who drive oblivious to their surroundings - e.g. multi-lane road, begin passing construction signs and there's a 'road narrows' sign easily visible ahead. The precious types who HAVE to wait until the last possible second to merge into the one remaining lane, even though they had maybe 100yards to do so.

Yeah! They have like, TWO MILES notice that the lane is going to end. I don't let them into the lane if they wait too long. It may make me a jerk, but they had plenty of notice that the lane was gonna end. It didn't just magically end all of a sudden.

[TorachiKatashi]

Worse yet are the ones who go up there PURPOSELY to try and get to the head of the line, as though it's actually going to affect how long to takes them to get to where they're going.

I propose we all makes those people wait there, or back up and start at the back of the line.

[ChoTomoko]

Tourists who stand off the curb when waiting for the crosswalk.
Parents who let their kids go nuts in a store.
Waiters who ask if you want your change back.
People who constantly scowl.

[Evil Jim]

Dirty car windows. I don't know how some of my friends can drive with such filthy or smudged (on the inside) windshields.

I had been tolerating some smudges on the inside of mine for some time now but tonite I went at it with a bottle of cleaning fluid & some microfiber towels. They're all clear & shiny now. Don't know how I went this long the way it was.

[Nevrmore]

I thought it was Blip that did that, not Revver.

Sooner or later, every video hosting service ends up or will end up putting ads before/during/after their videos. I remember the halcyon days when I thought that Youtube was the gold standard for ad-free entertainment. Such a fool I was.

[Genghis Ares]

I hate it when Action movie stars do kids movies.

[Darkobra]

Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Nanny, I think it was, was pretty good.

[Genghis Ares]

I believe you're thinking of Hulk Hogan and it was called Mr. Nanny.

[Arius]

People who seem to think speed limit signs are math problems.

A: 35... Must mean 3*5... So, 15 miles per hour.

Or...

B: 35... Must mean 3^5... So, 243 miles per hour.

Either way pisses me off. It's obviously meant to be 35% of your car's top speed.