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6 hours ago, MissFeatherbottom said:
People are my pet peeve lately, mostly bad drivers too. And I HATE when someone backs into a spot. I get why they do it, it's just super annoying when you aren't expecting them to do it in front of you.
I had a boss who constantly backed into angled street parking, which meant that her car was facing the wrong way on the street. This is not legal parking in our area. One of my co-workers notified the police, and the parking officer came and gave her a ticket. The rest of us were not unhappy about it, as no one liked her (what with her being crazy and just mean).
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2 hours ago, Growsonwalls said:
Well she said she was "showing what I do with food that is unethical."
I can read this in two ways. She is showing what she does with "food that is unethical." In this sentence, the food is unethical. Or she is showing "what I do with food" that is unethical, meaning that what she is doing with the food is unethical. I know which one she means, but I prefer to read it as the latter.
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We used to have a woman who always came late to morning meetings because they would start at 9, and she got to work (ostensibly) at 8:30, but she was always late to work and then had to spend time putting her stuff in her office and talking to people and doing the stuff you do when you get to work before coming to the meeting. So when she got there, we'd already started, and she would start asking questions about stuff we'd already discussed. We'd start the meetings at 9 so she could be there, but she was always 15-30 minutes late.
Another guy who used to work here would take 30 minutes to answer someone's question about how to do something, but wouldn't actually tell them how to do it. I swear he started every answer with, "First, the earth cooled, and then the dinosaurs came."
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2 hours ago, annzeepark914 said:
I guess I'm odd cause I *love* turtlenecks. Esp the ones that are really snug and high around my neck. Amost all are black, with a few gray, just to be different 🤓
I love them, too, particularly if the necks are snug. I'm one of those people who hate when the necks stretch out and sag. That's uncomfortable to me. I don't like necks that are too wide because I feel like I'm always pulling them back over my bra straps. I have narrow shoulders. I hate boatnecks for that reason and also because, although I love turtlenecks, I hate where boatnecks cross at the bottom of my neck. It bugs me.
1 hour ago, ABay said:Adding to the hate of tags and too-high collars. Why is it so hard to find V neck T shirts? And why are all the sleeves so damned short? They're supposed to be short sleeved, not cap sleeved, ffs.
Why do long-sleeved shirts have such short sleeves? They always end up slightly above my wrists. If they start out good, then the sleeves must shrink because they don't end up long enough. And the shirts are almost never long enough to tuck in properly. When I sit down, the tails come out. Of course, it doesn't help that my mother is convinced I wear petite sizes because I'm short. Technically, I'm short enough to wear petite sizes, but my proportions do not fit petite sizes.
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6 hours ago, Blergh said:
I agree- and along those same lines why is it so tough to find laundry detergent packet that doesn't have some kind of perfume scent. It's not so easy to find any unscented ones but if all else fails, I go for the 'fresh linen' ones so at least it will somewhat smell somewhat like clean laundry is suppose to smell like.
As to your initial query, I go for the Arm& Hammer Baking Soda underarm deodorant since baking soda usually has no real smell.
Look for detergent marketed to parents of infants. That's when we started buying unscented detergent and dryer sheets because the boy had very sensitive skin.
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1 hour ago, theatremouse said:
All of my tagless shirts have a grey band on the inside of the collar, but only on the back, not the front. Best of both worlds.
Most of mine (if not all) do not have that. I think I have one that does, but it's actually a man's sleepshirt that I wear as a long-sleeve T-shirt. I have the problem most in winter with turtlenecks and sweaters that have the same pattern all around. If it has a tag on the side, I look for that, as I have determined that the side tags in women's shirts are on the left.
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4 hours ago, theredhead77 said:
My peeve is tags in clothing. I hate tags so, so much. And when you take them out, even with a seam ripper, there are still itchy things left behind.
Mine is shirts without tags. I understand why they aren't there -- because many people find them bothersome. Some shirts I have no problems with, but for those whose front and back look similar, the tags help me put them on the right way. I have to take my glasses off to pull shirts on over my head (yes, I did once break a pair of glasses because I didn't take them off), and without a tag, it's hard to tell which is the front. I have very bad vision.
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1 hour ago, TattleTeeny said:
Oh, and oh my goodness, the worst packaging I ever had to deal with was the Hello brand of mouthwash, which was awesome. But it was an odd-shaped bottle that had that plastic ring that you pull off. I could never get a good grip on the bottle and pull the ring easily. And it would always finally come loose with a damn vengeance and result in half the bottle spilling out. Ugh.
This topic reminds me of a "hack" I once saw about struggling with those hard plastic packages that need to be cut open (like on, say, batteries or a curling iron or something), The hack said that if you needed to open one of those but didn't have scissors handy, you could use a manual can opener. Great, sure it probably works, but where am I that I have no access to everyday scissors, but do have a can opener?
You are in your house, but one of your children has wandered off with your scissors and has no idea where they are now. The children would never wander off with a can opener. It might suggest work. If you don't have children, I have no idea where the scissors went.
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1 hour ago, Calvada said:
Another annoyance: the seals around the top of a bottle or jar. There's usually a perforated line on the seal, but first you have to find that perforation and then get it started. Opening a bottle of salad dressing shouldn't be so difficult. And the interior seal on some containers once you get the outer seal off is even worse. I cannot tell you how many times I've pulled on that little flap only to have it tear off with the seal still firmly in place.
Finding that little perforated line is even harder now that I'm older. I have to take my glasses off and hold the bottle practically right next to my eyes to see the perforations.
I hate the inner seals that won't all come off easily so that there's still foil left on the top of the bottle or jar. I know why they don't make it come off easier (I think): so that someone can't take it off and put it back on so that it looks like it was never removed. I still hate it.
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3 hours ago, ParadoxLost said:
And during my time writing this I found a business registration website for my city that has a spreadsheet with all the businesses in my city and their addresses and websites. So after my initial burst of "yay, spreadsheet" (because I'm weird like that) I've decided to spend today plotting to do my small part in saving the world through consumerism. Or at least putting more of my dollars towards my neighbors' ventures.
I don't know how it is everywhere else, but in my state, I'd check with the local chamber of commerce for a list of businesses. It will list ones that are not locally owned, but you can usually tell which ones are -- especially if you are in a smaller city or town. Of course, if you're in a small enough town, you know the businesses anyway.
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1 minute ago, SuprSuprElevated said:
Not the biggest, but the most recent pet peeve:
Not being able to cleanly remove the (poorly) perforated opening of an elongated tissue box, ala Puffs. Drives me to distraction to have it partially tear, no matter how slowly and carefully I remove it.
Yes, I might have OCD, lol.
I hate that. It happens to me often.
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2 minutes ago, Bastet said:
When I "accidentally" make more tartar sauce than I need, eating the rest with a spoon is exactly what I do. My cat doesn't judge.
You have a very unusual cat. Our cats judge us for everything.
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I bought the Pam and Penny Howard books by Rosamond du Jardin for Kindle, along with The Luckiest Girl by Beverly Cleary, and reread them periodically. I also like Fifteen and Jean and Johnny by Beverly Cleary. They were all pretty dated even when I was a preteen and reading them, but I still like them.
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11 minutes ago, theredhead77 said:
My lighthearted peeve is this: it's not socially acceptable to eat sauce as a stand alone item. I made some delicious tartar sauce to go with my air fryer fish and chips and I just wanted to eat the rest with a spoon. Frosting? Sure. Ice cream? Sure. Sauce or salad dressing? Nope.
I always tell people carrot sticks are for holding ranch dressing because it's considered rude to lick it off your fingers.
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I'm farther north but caught in the same cold and snow system (farther north than @BookWoman56, but not far enough north to be used to a high of 3 degrees for the day). They asked everyone yesterday to turn their thermostats down and do everything they could to conserve power so we wouldn't have to have rolling blackouts (which would hopefully prevent the entire system going down). They first mentioned it on Saturday and asked people to set the thermostats on 68, don't do laundry, turn off lights, unplug small appliances you aren't using, etc. And then they mentioned it again on Sunday right before announcing that the system (a 13 or 14 state system -- I'm not sure of the exact number) had reached tier 3, which meant rolling blackouts of about an hour each.
You would have thought they'd announced they were going to go door to door and take everyone's first-born child or that they wanted people to set their thermometers at 30. People on Facebook (granted, social media commenters are often crazy) were refusing to turn down their thermostats because they turned them to 68, they would freeze, their pipes would freeze, their pets would freeze, and their children would get sick. And of course they're mad at the city for not giving them much warning about shutting off electricity and refusing to listen when the city says, "Hey, we only got a few minutes warning from the power pool people ourselves. We'd like to give more warning, but we can't."
And it's not like the city has a choice. All the electric utilities that are part of the multistate power pool are told when it reaches tier 3 that they have to cut so much power. It's not the city's fault it's so dadgum cold or that it hasn't stockpiled stuff for it to be this cold. (I don't even know how you'd do that, but people seem to want it.) It's like how they get mad we don't have snowplows. Most years they'd never get used. It'd be a waste of money.
My biggest peeve is that I can't stop reading the comments.
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I am of course going with the idea that I am young and thin and my arms are perfectly toned when I wear this dress. There's a fairy godmother involved. It could happen.
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The best gift anyone has gotten me recently was when my husband and I had COVID. My sister-in-law in another state got us Panera Bread gift cards that we could use for delivery.
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Yay, @bilgistic! I'm so happy for you! (You can tell because I used exclamation points. I almost never use exclamation points.)
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@PRgal, that makes me think of Henry Cho and his routine about women saying words twice to mean something different (which I know is a generalization, but I have been known to do that myself) and his friend says, "Yeah, it was a date date. I spent money money."
My peeve is that I do not have an eye for measuring depth, so my shortbread is twice as thick as it should be and taking a long time to cook and then may or may not be any good because of that.
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Because it is so cold outside (9 degrees, feels like -8), the heater is running almost constantly, and the air is so dry, much more than usual. The inside of my nose is dry and hurty. I've started using the saline nasal spray again and reminding myself to drink more water. I don't mind cold weather and don't want summer temperatures year-round, but this is too cold.
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40 minutes ago, Browncoat said:
The produce section in my grocery has misters that dampen the veg. I dampen my fingertips with the mist and open those bags that way.
Peeve for today: Our weather. The forecast for almost every single day this coming week (except Wednesday) is "Rain, freezing rain, sleet." Last night and today was all sleet and freezing rain. I am over this. I would rather have snow than freezing rain and sleet.
We have a little bit of snow and are supposed to get more Sunday and Monday, but since the high Monday is supposed to be 6 (before the wind chill) there will be no going outside in it. Right now it's 13 and feels like -2. I've decided it's the extreme cold that is causing my general feeling of anxiety.
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4 hours ago, Browncoat said:
Awww, I love Firefly, but will agree that it probably was not sustainable as a long-term show. Lost would have benefited from having a defined number of seasons from the start so the story could be properly told. Heroes should have ended after the first season.
I've always thought that the writers' strike seriously hurt Heroes. It wasn't the same show when the strike ended and the show started again.
46 minutes ago, Wiendish Fitch said:Hey, TV writers, a little FYI:
Taking a familiar genre and setting it IN SPAAAAAAAAAAAAACE! will not automatically make it fresh or interesting.
Particularly when it's been done before.
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2 hours ago, isalicat said:
I stopped reading Kathy Reichs as well because of the plot redundancies (and eventually what I perceived as gratuitous torture of helpless victims, which is less of a problem for me in other authors, not sure why). I read *26* (from the first to the second most recent) of Peter Robinson's murder mysteries but unfortunately he has gone all political in the last few books and I'm not interested in some Canadian guy's endless ranting about U.S. or U.K. politics in the middle of a nice murder mystery.
I read Peter Robinson up until the most recent one. I read a sample of it and also found it too political. I hoped it would get better once it got more into the story, but I haven't been willing to try yet.
I quit reading the Temperance Brennan books for a bit, but then started again. I quit after Cross Bones because of what I considered dumb assumptions by Brennan in the book about Jesus' family being rich and important. I eventually went back, but Brennan's behavior -- constantly running off on her own to investigate things that are properly the job of the detective, not the forensic anthropologist -- and the back and forth with Ryan still bug me.
The main character making the same stupid mistakes over and over again are also why I just can't bring myself to read Steve Berry's books any more.
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4 hours ago, BooksRule said:
I know! I hate being in photos because if I have to smile it looks strained and fake. I did learn something one time (maybe everyone else knows this tip, but I didn't)--a friend told me that if you just smile the biggest fakest smile you can (and you really feel foolish while you're doing it), photos usually come out with a reasonable-looking smile. As long as you don't have the crazy eyes at the same time.
I tried that once. I don't think I had crazy eyes, but maybe I did because the photo was horrible. My smile looked weird and awful. It was one of the worst photos I've ever taken. I find my best picture smile is a slight smile that makes the photographer keep telling me to smile. That's a photo peeve for me. I get my face set the way I know I want to look in the photo, and I'm not changing it, but the photographer keeps saying, "Smile! It's not that bad," or trying to get me to talk, which is just going to mess up the photo.
3 hours ago, BookWoman56 said:These people are the modern equivalent of a character Agatha Christie described in one of her mysteries. I no longer remember the exact words, but it was something to the effect of a woman who would loudly tell her friend, while someplace like a grocery store, that she had certain valuables in her house but is planning on being away for a few days, all while in hearing range of the local petty thief. IIRC, the narrator commented that this character might easily end up dead because she returned early from her planned trip and interrupted the thief robbing her house.
I want to say that was in "The Mirror Crack'd" when Miss Marple was talking about the woman who died. She said the woman was like the woman who talked too much with no regard for who was around her because she only ever saw things as they related to her (or something like that). I might be wrong about the book, though, as I've read all of them numerous times. It was definitely Miss Marple talking, though.
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Pet Peeves: Aka Things That Make You Go "Gah!"
in Everything Else
Burned popcorn is when everyone gets a break from work. The fire alarms go off, and everybody has to leave the building.