Pet Peeve of the Day

[GeckoGeek]

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I have a song request!

You Light Up My Life by Debbie Boone!

Pretty please?

Someone is butchering "Snow Bird" right now.

Spread your tiny wings and fly away
And take the snow back with you
Where it came from on that day
The one I love forever is untrue
And if I could you know that I would
Fly away with you

The voice is trying to figure out what key it's in.

[cynsaligia]

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Neighbors who have a outdoor Karaoke party. I'm a block away and can still hear them. I'm very tempted to go outside and yell "you suck!"

when i was in intermediate school, we lived in an apartment building whose resident manager's son fancied himself the next martin nievera, which he was so NOT. they lived next to the bank of mailboxes and the laundry room, and it was my unlucky chore to both check the mail and play sentinel to the laundry we washed. his exceedingly bad rendition of "wind beneath my wings" blasted disharmoniously through the cinder block walls and could be heard very clearly from those two (disad)vantage points.

painful, painful times, which i had forgotten. i wish they stayed that way. thanks, GG, for making me company to your misery.

[GeckoGeek]

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thanks, GG, for making me company to your misery.

Hey, anytime!

Well, the guy now at least can sing. (Yes, they are STILL at it.) The guy in the afternoon wouldn't have been able to find his pitch with both hands and a guide dog.

[acousticlady]

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Almost started another thread in The Tube but realized it is probably more of my own pet peeve. Did anyone else see the ads for the new fall show "Big Bang Theory"? Just another example of "only complete nerds do physics". OK - maybe you guys see me that way and in jest, among friends - I have no problem being teased. But it upsets me when that is the only way physics and math people are portrayed.

[cynsaligia]

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eric and i jointly agree that our PPOD is poor reading attentiveness and comprehension. we're all guilty of sloppy reading now and again, i know, but sheesh, if you're going to respond to someone else's post or, if you're going to post about something you read elsewhere, make sure you read it properly!

[Pomai]

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eric and i jointly agree that our PPOD is poor reading attentiveness and comprehension. we're all guilty of sloppy reading now and again, i know, but sheesh, if you're going to respond to someone else's post or, if you're going to post about something you read elsewhere, make sure you read it properly!

Non-capitilized run-on sentences can be a peeve too.

But you're hot, so it doesn't matter.

[adrian]

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Today's pet peeve is when a coworker uses a hands free device, then you try to answer a question he asks, but then you realize he's on the phone. I couldn't see the headset because its on the other side of his face. I like an idiot.

[tutusue]

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Today's pet peeve is when a coworker uses a hands free device, then you try to answer a question he asks, but then you realize he's on the phone. I couldn't see the headset because its on the other side of his face. I like an idiot.

I think that situation has happened to the majority of us. No need to feel like an idiot.

[adrian]

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I hate crossing the island to do computer repairs. Me and my car gotta travel from Waianae to Kailua tomorrow. This is one of the bad things I hate about owning a sports car (but going on a hairpin turn at 40mph certainly makes that better)

[scrivener]

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Non-capitilized run-on sentences can be a peeve too.

That wasn't a run-on sentence. Grammatically perfect and well-punctuated, except for the comma after the "or." In this case, it should have been before.

[sophielynette]

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A continuous pet peeve for me is drivers who pull their car all the way through the crosswalk at a red light, so that I have to walk into oncoming traffic in order to get around them.

[scrivener]

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A continuous pet peeve for me is drivers who pull their car all the way through the crosswalk at a red light, so that I have to walk into oncoming traffic in order to get around them.

Amen. Off with their heads, I say, and I'm against the death penalty. Also, cars that make right turns right in front of pedestrians and cyclists. Gr.

[GeckoGeek]

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A continuous pet peeve for me is drivers who pull their car all the way through the crosswalk at a red light, so that I have to walk into oncoming traffic in order to get around them.

Unfortunately for some intersections that's what you have to do to get into a position to see for a right-on-red. (Especially if the car just to the left is some monster SUV.) If there were no pedestrians at the time, that's perfectly fine in my book. And in that situation, if you walk in front of them without making eye contact, you may get run over.

[cynsaligia]

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eric and i jointly agree that our PPOD is poor reading attentiveness and comprehension. we're all guilty of sloppy reading now and again, i know, but sheesh, if you're going to respond to someone else's post or, if you're going to post about something you read elsewhere, make sure you read it properly!

Non-capitilized run-on sentences can be a peeve too.

But you're hot, so it doesn't matter.

That wasn't a run-on sentence. Grammatically perfect and well-punctuated, except for the comma after the "or." In this case, it should have been before.

thx, scriv. i will point out something you already know, which is that the nuances of comma usage is sometimes debatable. as i was speaking that sentence in my mind, i was emphasizing the word "or." regardless, that comma really isn't necessary & in retrospect, i prolly would have been better off leaving it out.

pomai, i'm glad the image you have of me in your head, since we've never met in real life, is an attractive one. what faith you have!

A continuous pet peeve for me is drivers who pull their car all the way through the crosswalk at a red light, so that I have to walk into oncoming traffic in order to get around them.

you could carry an air horn....

tho i don't know if you want to carry the cross eric and i carry about honking. the way some people scold us about it on HT, you'd think we were playing with fire in the dry brush of a national preserve containing indigenous and nearly extinct plant and animal species.

[Leo Lakio]

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the nuances of comma usage is sometimes debatable.

Nuances "are," if you please.

Bwah-hah-hah!

Honk-honk!

(Just teasing here - not peeved at all.)