Wednesday, July 22, 2009

"one of my pet peeves"

Things that aggravate me to no end....

1. The saying "one of my pet peeves". I cringed each time I wrote it for this article.
2. Those window decals of the entire family (complete with dog or cat stick figures). If you have them on your vehicle, you can correctly assume that I hate you when I'm behind you on the road.
3. Crappy tattoos. If you are going to use your body for permanent artwork, please put a little thought into it.
4. Superiority. If you just lost 1.2 million on the craps table in Vegas and it didn't bother you, that only means you have lots of money. You aren't a better person than the guy that gets paid $8/hour to empty the garbage cans.
5. Feminine product commercials. Sometimes I'm trying to eat my dinner and I don't want to think about 'heavy flow'.
6. Rachel Ray. Every time I hear her say EVOO, I want to punch her. Being overly perky repulses me wholly.
7. Movie theaters. I think being at the airport is more pleasant than the movies. If I wanted to watch a movie with phones ringing and screaming children I could do that at home.
8. Fox News. A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, there was an idea called fact-checking. Oh, how I miss those days.
9. Top Ten lists (excluding Dave Letterman - mockery and parody is always good in my book).
10. Prescription & herbal drug commercials. I don't think the FCC should allow them at all. These are things that people should discuss with their doctor, not decide upon because one has more TV ads than the other.
11. The mall. There is nothing more dreaded for me than a trip to the mall. The only reason I ever go there is for a specific store I can't get to otherwise.
12. Nondescript error codes. Can programmers stop using catch all error messages? It usually helps to know why you got the error.
13. Wizards, no not the Harry Potter kind, I mean the software kind. I am not computer illiterate and I don't appreciate being forced to go through wizards to set up something, when I know what I am doing. Keep the wizard, I don't care, but put an Advanced button on it so I can skip it if I choose to.
14. Soft Jazz hold music. I don't need to explain that one.
15. People that keep interrupting you when you are attempting to answer their question.
16. Pundits. 'Nuff said.
17. PETA They are just one example of an extremist group. Some of their ideas are fine by me, but they take it way too far.
18. Vegetarian dishes designed to be "just like" a real meat dish. They never are, and they aren't good. I actually like eating vegetarian when they care about what it tastes like, not just pretending it's something else.
19. "Oh, just one more question!" It's never just one more....
20. Prescription happy doctors. I don't just want a prescription to cover up symptoms. Maybe I'd like to actually find out what's wrong. If you don't have cancer, they don't seem to care why anymore. Takes too long to find out I suppose.

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