Pet Peeves...

[AndriaD]

In honor of today's winter-storm-pocalypse... I want to know what ever became of "Not rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor dark of night, shall stay us from our appointed rounds!" Just because there's frozen stuff everywhere, is no excuse not to bring the damn mail!!!


I want my cinnamon redhot e-juice!!
Andria

 

[Nikkita6]

A personal pet peeve (just cause it happened twice today already) is random strangers asking me if my eyes are real (they mean the color but I pretend I don't know that)? Well, ...? I say "nope, my seeing eye dog is just invisible". Then they want to argue. "Naah, they're colored contacts right?" NOOOOO!!!!!! Do your ears work? Apparently not.

Whew, I feel better now, lol.

Exited to say: I have no idea why I posted that pet peeve. Lol. Sorry.

Ahahaha .. I get that one too. Some people are just naturally invasive I think, which is kind of a pet peeve for me.

 

[zoiDman]

Has anyone mentioned "Devil's Advocate" yet? You know, "Let me just play devil's advocate for a minute. This happens on forum, and it happens in business meetings all the time. No, you're not playing devil's advocate. You're taking my bright, shiny, new idea and crushing it beneath your overgrown jack boots.

If you want to disagree, just disagree. Please don't try to sound like you're being helpful.

Let me be the Devil's Advocate for a second.

Sometimes people say that when they want to present an Opposing Position without saying that the Position they are presenting is their Own.

 

[always9988]

In honor of today's winter-storm-pocalypse... I want to know what ever became of "Not rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor dark of night, shall stay us from our appointed rounds!" Just because there's frozen stuff everywhere, is no excuse not to bring the damn mail!!!


I want my cinnamon redhot e-juice!!
Andria

I'm with you there got an order sitting in Georgia and I'm sure not a single person is working with the weather

 

[AndriaD]

I'm with you there got an order sitting in Georgia and I'm sure not a single person is working with the weather

You're right; this is what it looks like in GA today:



Makes me nostalgic for Michigan; the plow and salt truck would have been by at least twice by now, and none of these idjits would park on the street unless they wanted their car buried!

Meanwhile, I have an order coming from Michigan, which has probably landed in about Kentucky by now, while "Pax" ravages everything between here and there! Stupid weather!!


Andria

 

[TwistedMutt]

Low quality chatgers

 

[8dragon9]

My biggest pet peeve is explaning them constantly to people who either dont smoke, or have no intention on trying to vape.

sent from the s4 of DOOOM

 

[zoiDman]

Low quality chatgers

I Hate Chatgers period. Low or High Quality.

LOL

 

[Nermal]

Let me be the Devil's Advocate for a second.

And another bright, shiny idea bites the dust.

 

[Southern Tina]

I once asked a lady almost the exact same question, except we weren't complete strangers and I did specify color. She's got the clearest, most pure cornflower blue eyes I've ever seen. She took it pretty well.

I know my eyes are odd. They are light light green, like cat eyes. I get it. It's just the "are they real" question (like I have glass eyes) and then them saying "no, they can't be". Uh okay. Then why did you ask if you don't like the answer?

 

[Southern Tina]

Ahahaha .. I get that one too. Some people are just naturally invasive I think, which is kind of a pet peeve for me.

Along the same lines are people that get in my personal space. I've had more people than I can count (dudes obviously) stand so close behind me in a line somewhere and actually comment that they like the way my hair smells???? Well, I can feel you breathing on my head so STEP BACK MAN. That happened again today too. What a day this has been, haha.

 

[celticluvr]

Along the same lines are people that get in my personal space. I've had more people than I can count (dudes obviously) stand so close behind me in a line somewhere and actually comment that they like the way my hair smells???? Well, I can feel you breathing on my head so STEP BACK MAN. That happened again today too. What a day this has been, haha.

oh god I know what you mean. Have you ever had someone come behind you and straighten your necklace or tuck your tag back into your shirt? That stuff always made me spitting mad .... Leave me alone!!!!! But sometimes it was a little old lady and I couldn't help but be nice, ya know?

 

[rurwin]

I'm surprised to find I have any About Me information. It's pretty rubbish but I can't fix it at the moment as I am stuck on the mobile version of the forum for a while and I can't see how to do it from there.

Regarding Devil's Advocate, I don't think I have ever used those words, but I'm probably guilty of asking that a bright shiny new idea is tested before going forth into the World. If you can defend it, then it is good. If you cannot defend it, isn't it better to know that as soon as possible? Of course, there is a wrong way to go about that too. Raising spurious objections that will never be a problem might be a way someone chooses to kill ideas they don't like for personal but morally questionable reasons, such as "I don't like that because I can't control it."

 

[Southern Tina]

oh god I know what you mean. Have you ever had someone come behind you and straighten your necklace or tuck your tag back into your shirt? That stuff always made me spitting mad .... Leave me alone!!!!! But sometimes it was a little old lady and I couldn't help but be nice, ya know?

Yes, yes, yes! I also get "can I feel/touch your hair?" WHAT? NO, you may not. It's just hair. Yes, sometimes it's curly...sometimes it's straight. Yeah dude, I know it's long (regular mid back long) but you may not touch, feel, smell, or do anything else with my hair. People are super weird sometimes. The tag thing. That bugs the crap out of me too. Please don't put your hands that have been God knows where on my neck please.

 

[AndriaD]

The "Devil's Advocate" was the only role my mom knew how to play, when I was growing up. So I stopped talking to her about anything serious pretty young. When I called her on it recently, her belittling, sarcastic attitude to me then, she says "I was just playing Devil's Advocate"... so I informed her I had never needed a Devil's Advocate, I had needed a mom who supported me. She was completely lost for a response. For maybe 30 seconds, then changed the subject. That's my mom, the devil's advocate!

Tina -- I got that kind of thing when I was pregnant, 25 yrs ago -- strangers wanting to touch my belly! AAAUGGGHHH!!! Thank heavens I didn't really show much till I was like 7 1/2 months, I only had to endure it about 6 wks, because it was awful!

Andria

 

[Kbennett65]

I know exactly what you mean:

earlier today I was trying to find something about menthol liquids in DIY - Liquid part of this forum and I'm reading stuff and OMG !!! all these abbr. for the vendors like (some I have figured out) WL, TFA, PA, FA, LA, MFS, MBV and so forth ... how is a newb in DIY supposed to know what's which or what or who ????

can you guess my pet peeve?

CORRECT: abbreviations !!!

hate them

Thank you! Couldn't have said it better. I usually end up just skipping some probably very valuable advice because I can't decipher what all the abbreviations mean.

 

[HauntedMyst]

oh god I know what you mean. Have you ever had someone come behind you and straighten your necklace or tuck your tag back into your shirt? That stuff always made me spitting mad .... Leave me alone!!!!! But sometimes it was a little old lady and I couldn't help but be nice, ya know?

You think that's bad, imagine being in the mens room and having another guy walk up to you at the urinal and offer to help shake it and tuck it in. I'm like "No, I got this....since I was 3. Now go away." Or how about when you are in prison and your cell mate asks you if you want to "spoon" cause he's lonely and had a bad dream. It's like "No. I'm fine. And stop watching the Nightmare on Elm Street movies before bed Larry and you won't have bad dreams. Jerk" (I usually leave out the jerk part so I don't get shanked but you bet your ... I'm thinking it)


Another peeve: People who think puns are funny and clever.

 

[MissKitty47]

Pub puts few adore adore aspire!! 80s.

Sent by my cat through pure magic

 

[AndriaD]

Crap! I can't resist. SOME of US (and I am NOT alone) do NOT even know what a "RBA" IS ..... and I already did a gripe about "MODS" yet Victor the Vape Man will write three paragraphs about his "RBA" and throw in a line or six asking or declaring, "WHY do people STILL use 'clearos', 'cartos' AND 'eGo's" when they COULD be using my spiff "MOD" (big old hernia-making box with six batteries inside).

MANY folks don't KNOW all the terminology. A reference to anything unknown confuses old farts and young pups alike.

I know exactly what you mean:

earlier today I was trying to find something about menthol liquids in DIY - Liquid part of this forum and I'm reading stuff and OMG !!! all these abbr. for the vendors like (some I have figured out) WL, TFA, PA, FA, LA, MFS, MBV and so forth ... how is a newb in DIY supposed to know what's which or what or who ????

can you guess my pet peeve?

CORRECT: abbreviations !!!

hate them

I am completely on the same page with both of you; I have even *asked* "what's an RBA?" and never got an answer, so I still don't know. And I'm totally with ya, Don, about the humongous things that look more like sex toys than any cigarette or even cigar I ever saw. I really don't get the point of those -- you can't possibly take 'em with you, so what do you do when you go out??? I believe I'll be sticking with my eRoll for *SOME* time, and yep, it's an E-CIGARETTE, I'm not pretending it's anything else, because I'm trying to pretend it's a cigarettte! I mean, that's the whole damn point!!! And if someone asks me about it, I'll be glad to tell them it's an E-CIGARETTE and give them the entire song and dance about how it's safe and not dangerous even to bystanders and we really gotta get together and stick it to BT, BP, and the rest of the criminals that are trying to kill us.

Some of the abbreviations I can puzzle out, if I've been following a thread for a while, and know they're speaking of a particular vendor or flavor, but others, forget it; and when you pipe up and ask, often you just get ignored. Though I have to say, this is the friendliest forum I think I've ever found on the internet, it reminds me of the BBSing, pre-internet days, in the welcoming warmth and helpfulness of probably 99.9% of all the users here.


Andria

 

[AndriaD]

Along the same lines are people that get in my personal space. I've had more people than I can count (dudes obviously) stand so close behind me in a line somewhere and actually comment that they like the way my hair smells???? Well, I can feel you breathing on my head so STEP BACK MAN. That happened again today too. What a day this has been, haha.

Heh... Actually I have often found my cigarettes to be a good defense with this sort of thing... so few folks smoke anymore, they act like they're gonna catch cancer if they smell one molecule of cigarette smoke... hehehe So if they do manage to get close enough to offend me, I just give 'em a big ol' smoke cloud... they back up PDQ! Guess this one won't be available to me for much longer. Oh well, I guess that's a good use of a husband, let HIM deal with anyone who offends me!

Andria