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Post by Superium on Oct 3, 2019 16:51:00 GMT
Less of a pet peeve and more of a problem, but the act of bull****ting in society.
- Don't know something / completely clueless in a particular topic? Feign confidence and pretend like you know so that you don't look foolish instead of admitting defeat and accepting help. As we all know, asking for knowledge is a sign of weakness. - Don't want to attend a party or meeting? Either show up or make up some BS excuse instead of sharing the real reason for not showing up! You don't want to let everyone down, do you? (If you have a legitimate reason for not going, that's fine). - Do you have some spare time? Shame on you! You should always be productive 24/7. Always be willing to respond even when you're off the clock! Relaxation is for when you die! - At your job and you're trying to get your work done in an efficient manner? Can't have that! Engage with your coworkers, even if they're taking valuable time away from your work. Engage in office politics, even if you couldn't care less. - See a job that you know you're qualified for? Since you're not related to the manager's sister's husband's first cousin's great-uncle, you can't have it! Keep in mind, It's not what you know, but who you know and who can screw you over!
Remember, always lie to everyone so that you keep up appearances / keep the peace. The truth is for squares and losers!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2019 18:08:42 GMT
Less of a pet peeve and more of a problem, but the act of bull****ting in society. - Don't know something / completely clueless in a particular topic? Feign confidence and pretend like you know so that you don't look foolish instead of admitting defeat and accepting help. As we all know, asking for knowledge is a sign of weakness. - Don't want to attend a party or meeting? Either show up or make up some BS excuse instead of sharing the real reason for not showing up! You don't want to let everyone down, do you? (If you have a legitimate reason for not going, that's fine). - Do you have some spare time? Shame on you! You should always be productive 24/7. Always be willing to respond even when you're off the clock! Relaxation is for when you die! - At your job and you're trying to get your work done in an efficient manner? Can't have that! Engage with your coworkers, even if they're taking valuable time away from your work. Engage in office politics, even if you couldn't care less. - See a job that you know you're qualified for? Since you're not related to the manager's sister's husband's first cousin's great-uncle, you can't have it! Keep in mind, It's not what you know, but who you know and who can screw you over! Remember, always lie to everyone so that you keep up appearances / keep the peace. The truth is for squares and losers! Tough day eh? I feel your pain put yir feet up pour a stiff one put on an audio....and enjoy your evening 😎
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Post by Superium on Oct 3, 2019 21:20:57 GMT
Less of a pet peeve and more of a problem, but the act of bull****ting in society. - Don't know something / completely clueless in a particular topic? Feign confidence and pretend like you know so that you don't look foolish instead of admitting defeat and accepting help. As we all know, asking for knowledge is a sign of weakness. - Don't want to attend a party or meeting? Either show up or make up some BS excuse instead of sharing the real reason for not showing up! You don't want to let everyone down, do you? (If you have a legitimate reason for not going, that's fine). - Do you have some spare time? Shame on you! You should always be productive 24/7. Always be willing to respond even when you're off the clock! Relaxation is for when you die! - At your job and you're trying to get your work done in an efficient manner? Can't have that! Engage with your coworkers, even if they're taking valuable time away from your work. Engage in office politics, even if you couldn't care less. - See a job that you know you're qualified for? Since you're not related to the manager's sister's husband's first cousin's great-uncle, you can't have it! Keep in mind, It's not what you know, but who you know and who can screw you over! Remember, always lie to everyone so that you keep up appearances / keep the peace. The truth is for squares and losers! Tough day eh? I feel your pain put yir feet up pour a stiff one put on an audio....and enjoy your evening 😎 Believe it or not, this has been one of the better days I've had in a while. It's just something I've noticed over the past year or so.
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Post by Timelord007 on Oct 4, 2019 6:50:49 GMT
Amazon delivery drivers who don't RING THE BLOODY DOORBELL, it's the big white button on the right all you have to do is press it.
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Post by mrperson on Oct 4, 2019 19:07:42 GMT
Intellectual dishonesty. I waste a good amount of time on this political debate board ( wwww.debatepolitics.com , if any were interested in that sort of contentious thing). I'm regularly amazed at what people are willing to say. For example, this business of Trump leaning on Ukraine to dig up dirt on Biden, then openly demanding the same on live TV from Ukraine and China (Barr had previously been dispatched to Italy and England along similar lines). Well, some talking head on Fox or another put forth the suggestion that this is because Trump is genuinely interested in corruption generally, and everything else is pure innocent coincidence. His supporters immediately start saying exactly that in unison, ie, "there's nothing inappropriate about rooting out corruption." I mean...they can't possibly believe that, can they? The guy who spent his life being a sleezy real estate developer so bad at his chosen career that only the Russians were willing to lend to him by the end, who cozies up with Kim Jong Un, Bin Salman, Vladimir Putin.... ....he suddenly started caring about corruption and it's just Biden he's worried about in that regard? These are the same people who spent 2.5 years insisting Mueller was framing Trump (despite being a lifelong Republican, appointed by and overseen by Republicans, with a sterling reputation as a prosecutor). Then, when the report came out, insisted it "totally exonerated" him (it didn't) and that Mueller would have indicted Trump otherwise (he couldn't, per DOJ policy and almost certainly per U.S. constitutional law, were it to be tested in court). So, they switched from insisting Trump would be framed so we must not trust Mueller, to falsely claiming Mueller exonerated Trump and that we should trust every last word of that non-exoneration. I know there are any number of people that aren't too bright, but this is the kind of thing that a person simply cannot have arrived at after rational analysis. Drives me up the wall reading this stuff and thinking "I know you do not actually believe that, that you're just saying it out of partisan tribalism). So, yeah. Intellectual dishonesty. Don't like it.
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Post by Superium on Oct 4, 2019 23:34:01 GMT
Anti-intellectualism. It's one thing if you don't know a certain topic, but you proceed to do some research yourself. It's another thing if you have a severe mistrust of intellect and you pride yourself in not learning more about the world.
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Oct 12, 2019 8:19:14 GMT
People who rush and barge past people to get on and off planes. You aint getting your bags any quicker A*****e
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Post by Superium on Oct 25, 2019 6:04:21 GMT
People who cause an accident and then look at you as if you're in the wrong and they were just a victim.
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Post by Digi on Oct 25, 2019 13:56:30 GMT
Noisy eaters/drinkers.
At McDs this morning, one of the regulars was two tables over from me, smacking his lips/tongue and going ‘ahhhh’ after every sip of his latte. I may or may not have fantasized about murder.
And just now at work, I had to tell one of my colleagues to chew with his damn mouth closed.
SERIOUSLY. This s*** is disgusting.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2019 13:37:42 GMT
Constantly being sent these donut emojis by text !
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Post by barnabaslives on Nov 5, 2019 8:50:38 GMT
I have a pet peeve about people trying to blame all the world's medical problems on tobacco that they can get away with. Before that it was cannabis but that's legal in my state my now. Funny how no one seems to blames alcohol for anything as long as you have a speck of liver left.
I go to look up the local mental health agency and I find a county health department page informing everyone that tobacco simultaneously causes and treats schizophrenia (someone is hedging their bets from the sound of it) based purely on the observation that a lot of schizophrenics seem to gravitate toward tobacco and no research whatsoever that I'm aware of. Yep, you just light one up and you're off to the psych ward...
For the record, my wife developed lung trouble 10 years before I did, and I did my very best not to expose her to second-hand smoke. Three cigarettes I smoked in the house in 20 years and that was my first month here when she was out of town. Since they can't blame that one on tobacco they tell her she has a faulty immune system because her parents wouldn't let her develop a proper one by letting her play with pet poo when she was crawling on floors.
My wife started trying to tell me I was having trouble getting up the stairs because I'd just had a cig, so I started experimenting. That would have been easy to fix if that's what it was, but it wasn't. Do people NEVER learn about making scapegoats?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2019 10:50:50 GMT
I have a pet peeve about people trying to blame all the world's medical problems on tobacco that they can get away with. Before that it was cannabis but that's legal in my state my now. Funny how no one seems to blames alcohol for anything as long as you have a speck of liver left. I go to look up the local mental health agency and I find a county health department page informing everyone that tobacco simultaneously causes and treats schizophrenia (someone is hedging their bets from the sound of it) based purely on the observation that a lot of schizophrenics seem to gravitate toward tobacco and no research whatsoever that I'm aware of. Yep, you just light one up and you're off to the psych ward... For the record, my wife developed lung trouble 10 years before I did, and I did my very best not to expose her to second-hand smoke. Three cigarettes I smoked in the house in 20 years and that was my first month here when she was out of town. Since they can't blame that one on tobacco they tell her she has a faulty immune system because her parents wouldn't let her develop a proper one by letting her play with pet poo when she was crawling on floors. My wife started trying to tell me I was having trouble getting up the stairs because I'd just had a cig, so I started experimenting. That would have been easy to fix if that's what it was, but it wasn't. Do people NEVER learn about making scapegoats? Very strange. Must be an American thing because here in the UK alcohol is also seen as the cause (not blamed) of many health issues both physical & mental. Never seen tobacco referred to as a scapegoat. It is a dangerous drug with serous implications for ones health.
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Post by Superium on Nov 15, 2019 22:22:09 GMT
This isn't off topic, as it relates to DW, but the fact that there are some people who STILL believe that 6 pushed those two guards in the acid bath in Vengeance on Varos.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2019 19:51:50 GMT
A comma being used when a full stop should be (or colon, or dash).
That colons seem to be almost entirely unused.
It's and its. There, their and they're. __ould of's. (Whenever I encounter any of these, I end up reading the sentence 3+ times. I do not want to read it 3+ times.)
This is where me being a computer scientist shines through because a huge portion of our industry focuses on the message-giver putting effort in so that the receiver has to do as little as possible. Because people are idiots.
P.S. I before E being drummed in, as in the word reciever above.
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Post by Superium on Jan 9, 2020 18:49:47 GMT
People who say that the Hartnell era was mostly historicals. While it is true that he had more historicals than any other doctor, less than half his era is composed of them.
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Jan 10, 2020 13:23:11 GMT
When you move out of the way for someone to come through a door and the t**t behind you just barges past
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Post by mrperson on Jan 10, 2020 19:13:46 GMT
Running errands because you intend to run one in particular and that's the one you forget.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2020 22:37:41 GMT
Ebay sellers marking things as dispatched on a certain day...then when it eventually shows up, the postal mark shows they actually posted it a week later....
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Jan 14, 2020 13:08:06 GMT
Ebay sellers marking things as dispatched on a certain day...then when it eventually shows up, the postal mark shows they actually posted it a week later.... God i hate that
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2020 13:12:05 GMT
Ebay sellers marking things as dispatched on a certain day...then when it eventually shows up, the postal mark shows they actually posted it a week later.... God i hate that To be fair there's a flipside, you can't ask someone a question about an item that's past it's delivery estimate without "opening a case" which seems a bit much, especially with post over Christmas where things are going to take longer. I also hate ebays policy of finding against you if the other person has tracking. What's to stop them tracking an empty envelope?
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