GasBandit
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Pet Peeve rants.
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I know I've said this before, but acknowledgement or awareness of your own traits or peculiarities does not give you an excuse. It gives you an explanation. Take the introversion thing. A couple of years ago this got traction as an awareness push (which in and of itself was a bit funny considering what a huge percentage of the population is at least somewhat introverted, but I digress). As an introvert myself, I was delighted. But then I watched it warp into anger and excuses to my horror.
The word "Gaiden" when attached to a manga series name to show us its a sequel. I just feel they could be more clever, Gaiden feels played out.
I've noticed throughout the entire baseball playoffs this year that every commercial break has had an ad for boner pills. Even during games in the middle of the day. WTF NETWORKS?! You know, many people still watch baseball with their young kids, they shouldn't need to have to explain to them why the t.v. keeps talking about erections!
The lie that is the wifi network for United Airlines. Took out my laptop, finagled it into an uncomfortable position, only for it to not work because fuck if I know.
Flying with United Airlines is the 5th Circle of Hell.
Flying with Delta is the 9th.
I like delta. Then again, I'm biased.
My boss says that being able to sleep on planes is a rare gift and he is quite envious that sometimes I am out before takeoff!
I will never get down being able to sleep on a plane, I just end up constantly waking up, trying to sleep, then wake up again. Also back, neck, and gastrointestinal distress is usually involved. You ever take a cat-nap while holding in a FART?! Wake up to an ocean of pain.
If it made such a sound I would not care, for the hurricane with-in would dissipate! But instead, a thousand stinging needles of pain coursing through my stomach and up my spine.
I feel the same about Football games. And nearly ALL their games are afternoon games. I was really uncomfortable watching with my nephews.
Now the big sponsors of the NFL are gambling website ripoffs. All the major sports complain about how bad gambling is for their sports. But now there is semi-legitimate gambling and the NFL jumped on that money with both feet. Even the sports casters on CBS this week were mentioning the fantasy value of different players. /smh
Fake movie trailers for movies that would look awesome if they actually existed. For the love of fuck, at least make it look crappy, don't cast Aubrey Plaza as Daria! THAT'S PERFECT CASTING! Now I want that movie to happen, DESPITE knowing it never will.
*Sigh* Why did the Powerpuff girls movie have to bomb?
Okay this is definitely a minor peeve:
When I order the same drink and they get a new glass. What, is the flavor of the beer I was just drinking going to interfere with the flavor of the same damn beer? RAH!
When I order the same drink and they get a new glass. What, is the flavor of the beer I was just drinking going to interfere with the flavor of the same damn beer? RAH!
He's Belgian. He knows. They get all the good beer . . . and pawn off their stellar crap on us.
Ticker scores on the bottom of the screen during football and hockey games. It's 2015 if I want to know how another game is going I can find out from about a million different sources the instant I want them. Plus with Sunday ticket and/or NHL game center I can watch multiple games. Or at least I would want to if the scores weren't spoiled for me from a ticker that crops the bottom of the screen.
Do you mean the less-than-stellar crap, or the Stella crap? Both hold trueHe's Belgian. He knows. They get all the good beer . . . and pawn off their stellar crap on us.
People who write to my general office email looking for admission information get on my last nerve. I'm in Graduate Awards & Scholarships. My email address is gradstudies.awards. I forward 20-30 of these things each day. I'm not even the first email address on the list. Gradstudies.admissions is two lines before mine! If you can't read that much English to know the difference between "awards" and "admissions", you don't deserve to go to grad school.
I need more caffeine.
I need more caffeine.
Nonsense. It's not a matter of being "good enough for it". It's a matter of sensibilities. Some people are tone deaf, some people can easily listen to music and enjoy, some people have a fine ear and some have perfect pitch hearing. This doesn't mean those first groups should insist there's "no difference" because they can't hear it, nor does it mean the latter should be a snob and consider the former to be peasants. Partly, like art appreciation or music appreciation, it is learned through experience, partly it's being born with specific enough senses to make the distinction, and party it's wanting to make the distinction.
This doesn't mean you can't or shouldn't enjoy a good beer, just like someone who may not have absolute perfect hearing can't still enjoy a good rock concert or opera. Their taste may be less discerning, but that, in part, only means they can enjoy more concerts or operas because they don't necessarily hear every little flaw. Likewise for beer. There's quite a few beers I used to be able to enjoy that I now have a harder time with because I taste too much little flaws or techniques they used to cover up side tastes, it ruins the enjoyment. On the other hand, it may mean the difference between a beer's regular edition and its 15 year old cask strength edition is lost on you, so you may as well save yourself the additional cost, and/or may want to offer that bottle to a friend.
...A Belgian friend.
....A Belgian owlish friend.
....oh, just gimme your beer, dammit
Around here, you'd cause an at-least three car collision between yourself, the dick that sped up specifically to block you out, the other dick that slowed down significantly to block you out, and anyone who might be in the next two or three lanes over who would slow down because they saw someone trying to merge into the right lane.
Maybe things work differently out there, but around here if you are merging into oncoming traffic, that lane you are on isn't an on-ramp.
Working at a draft house let me tell you, I dont want your or anyone elses, used beer mug anywhere near my tap.
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Dear people who make video game videos with names mocking the subject matter. Please put the REAL name in the description, so we don't waste fifteen minutes looking up a game called "Dundertale" when its called freaking Undertale!
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Here's a very specific pet peeve.
I work a lot in software development, and I hate when people refuse to use the standard pronunciations of acronyms, instead spelling them out. For example, we're using SQL databases in our code, and so many of the team keep saying S-Q-L. Come on, just say "sequel". I don't know why this bugs me so much. It especially bugs me when a dev says S-Q-L. Then I think, "You were my brother, Ani!"
I work a lot in software development, and I hate when people refuse to use the standard pronunciations of acronyms, instead spelling them out. For example, we're using SQL databases in our code, and so many of the team keep saying S-Q-L. Come on, just say "sequel". I don't know why this bugs me so much. It especially bugs me when a dev says S-Q-L. Then I think, "You were my brother, Ani!"
I especially hate it when ex-military guys do it. I want to shake them and say "You were in the military! You know how this works!" The military acronym-words everything.