I HATE Nose Pickers!
When they sit there, ferretting about in their nostrils and examining their find before popping it into their mouth .... (http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/10/10_2_17.gif) .... eeuw!
..... Or flicking it somewhere else .... (http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/10/10_2_18.gif) .... double eeuw!
..... Or worse .... (http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/10/10_2_19.gif) .... Now excuse me while I go and throw up!!
Susie (http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/11/11_1_201.gif)
I HATE Nose Pickers!
When they sit there, ferretting about in their nostrils and examining their find before popping it into their mouth .... (http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/10/10_2_17.gif) .... eeuw!
..... Or flicking it somewhere else .... (http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/10/10_2_18.gif) .... double eeuw!
..... Or worse .... (http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/10/10_2_19.gif) .... Now excuse me while I go and throw up!!
Susie (http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/11/11_1_201.gif)
People cracking their knuckles!
I do it sometimes, but I hate it when other's do it. Does that make me hypocritical? :-\
Isn't it weird how the strangest things make us crazy. Cracking knuckles is one,, the worst one however is snoring...I get so as to be downright dangerous when someone snores loudly....I just want to hit them...that is so wrong,, but it makes me totally insane. :-\ :-\
For some reason I attract heavy sleeping, loud snoring guys. Just about every guy I have been with is both a heavy sleeper and a loud snorer. As hard as I try, I can't wake them up. Both my roommate and my boyfriend rock the house when they sleep. It's terrible. I can actually sit my boyfriend up in bed and not wake him up. And I hate it when they do one of those loud gasping snores. Do you know what I mean? Then they wiggle around a little bit, and the whole snoring process starts all over again. I'll lay there and bend my pillow over my head to block out the noise and I can still hear it. I've had to go downstairs and sleep on the couch because of it. It's awful! >:(
I know they can't help it, but GEEZ!!!! ::)
Are they smokers, David? When my country boyf is visiting Sydney, or when I'm visiting him in the country, I always have a great deal of trouble sleeping because of his deafening snoring. I have been known to insert earplugs, which doesn't exactly make for a romantic ambience! ::) But then again, nor does his snoring. >:( And as in your situation, he is also a very deep sleeper. And a thrasher, too! It's a wonder I haven't woken up with a black eye on some occasions. 8) I've copped those bony elbows of his in my face on more than one occasion! He's a smoker and I thought that may have had something to do with his snoring. :-\ I'm told that I don't snore. :)
My husband is a snorer.. didnt used to be, but now he is..he doesnt smoke, but he used to..we tried every thing but no avail...so now we have separate rooms...the dog sleeps with him, and i am alone...ok by me
It was either that or go to prison for murder...I would get so dang tired I would want to hit him...I got tired of sleeping on the couch..
I did the ear plugs, and the pillow over my head.. I also turned on the fan,, but eventually it got so loud that even the fan didnt drown it out......yukkkkk
Hi Kerry! :D
Alex smokes occassionally, but he's not a heavy smoker. He just smokes every now and then. Cory (my roommate) doesn't smoke, and both are extremely heavy sleepers and loud snorers. I've been told I don't snore either Kerry. I am a very light sleeper, and I get up quite often during the night, if I go to bed at all. I only require a few hours of sleep anyway. I've always been like this, even as a little kid, I would get up during the night and go watch TV or something. I got in BIG trouble when mom and dad caught me doing it too! They'd say "GET YOUR ASS BACK IN BED!" But I couldn't help it. It's boring just laying there most of the night. I just don't need much sleep.
Bicyclists who don't follow the rules of the road. At least STOP at the red light and make sure nothing (cars, pedestrians, etc.) is coming before you wheel on through, you a$$h0le. If I didn't think I would get hurt as bad or worse than they would, I would clothes-line 'em.
And ANOTHER thing. . .
People who have to always top you.
You: "I ate a whole box of Honey Nut Cheerios throughout the day yesterday."
Them: "I ate two boxes before noon."
You: "My cousin's baby was born with 11 toes!"
Them: I had a cousin who was born with 12 toes and four nipples.
You: "I had an emergency appendectomy."
Them" "My appendix ruptured, and an alien baby came out when they did surgery on me, and it ate the anesthesiologist."
When you wake up in the morning to find it snowed hard the night before:
You: "Girl, I got 10 inches last night."
Them" "I got 13."
Here's a joke my momma told me.
What's the difference between boogers and broccoli?
Little kids won't eat broccoli.
Spitting in public is also a pet peeve of mine. I was waiting for the subway late one night, and this grody guy close to me kept spitting on the tracks. It was nasty. I was tempted to give him a piece of gum or something.
OMG, so true. A lot of annoying things are generally recognized as annoying and therefore not done by most adults (e.g. nose picking). But a lot of the same people have no compunction about spitting. Eeeew! (Like, at least spit into the garbage or bushes or somewhere out of plain sight.... :P)
Dropping the letter "T" drives me round the bend! My daughter's started doing it and I find myself correcting her constantly ... just like my mum used to do to me!!! I knew I was turning into my mother!
She'll say "I'm off to see ma ma'e Ka'ie, see ya la'er", and I reply "Who's Ka'ie?" ... "ah Shu' up mum!"
It make me want to pull my hair outtttttttt!!
Susie (http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/11/11_1_201.gif)
Dropping the letter "T" drives me round the bend! My daughter's started doing it and I find myself correcting her constantly ... just like my mum used to do to me!!! I knew I was turning into my mother!
She'll say "I'm off to see ma ma'e Ka'ie, see ya la'er", and I reply "Who's Ka'ie?" ... "ah Shu' up mum!"
It make me want to pull my hair outtttttttt!!
Susie (http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/11/11_1_201.gif)
Dropping the letter "T" drives me round the bend! My daughter's started doing it and I find myself correcting her constantly ... just like my mum used to do to me!!! I knew I was turning into my mother!
She'll say "I'm off to see ma ma'e Ka'ie, see ya la'er", and I reply "Who's Ka'ie?" ... "ah Shu' up mum!"
It make me want to pull my hair outtttttttt!!
Susie (http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/11/11_1_201.gif)
There are just too many to name. I'm REALLY surprised that homophobia and bad drivers are not listed and tall/short people are??? I hate homophobes as much as racists and murderers, but whats wrong with tall or short people??
My response earlier in this thread (#6) reads, "I'm uncomfortable around bigots and homophobes. And by extension, I'm also uncomfortable around evangelical fundamentalist Christians."
Pet peeves??? OMG......don't get me started.
People who drive slow in the left lane, i.e. the passing lane. I believe I saw a death penalty poll here. Driving slow in the left lane should be considered one of the "certain extreme crimes". If they would just put their cell phones down.........
My response earlier in this thread (#6) reads, "I'm uncomfortable around bigots and homophobes. And by extension, I'm also uncomfortable around evangelical fundamentalist Christians."
WOW, you've been bottling that lot up Souxi!! I'm glad you got it all off your chest!! Awww don't be too harsh on overweight people, I quite admire their determination to dress the way they want ... I'm overweight and too shy to let it all hang out ... I dress like a sack of potatoes most of the time!!! :-\ :-\
Susie (http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/11/11_1_201.gif)
:laugh: You paint such a vivid picture Souxi! :P
Susie (http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/11/11_1_201.gif)
Hey! Where'dya find that picture of me?? :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Ah ... now's here's a better shot of me ...
(http://www.independentcritics.com/images/fountain%20SPLASH4.jpg)
........ I wish!
Susie ;D
Me neither ;D
This is what we were doing earlier :P :P :P .....
(http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s31/Susiebell_album/Men/9.jpg)
Susie ;)
Souxi said she hates it when people spit in public. I hate it when people spit their gum out in the parking lot or on the sidewalk. Every time I step on someone's nasty gum it makes me mad enough to kill. If an adult spits his/her gum out where someone else can step on it he/she should be shot. If a kid does it, his/her parents should be shot. ;D
Gary
Well mine's sky high, but only from picturing Hugh naked in bed with me!!! :o :o :o
Susie ;D
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: I take pills, Shasta, but that doesn't always seem to do the trick. :P
Gary
P.S. And I was only teasing about shooting people who spit their gum out in parking lots and on sidewalks. A public flogging would suffice. ;D
Most 12 year old boys consider these to be truly worthwhile skills!!! .... my son is in awe of my brother who can belch the entire alphabet!! (http://content.sweetim.com/sim/cpie/emoticons/0002005A.gif)
Susie :P
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: (http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/10/10_2_10.gif)
I'm feeling rather peevish today, and I missed this poll the first time around. My pet peeve for today is people who open a drawer, take something out of it, and then WALK AWAY leaving the drawer open. A corollary to this is when people open a cabinet, root around in it, and then walk away with their find, leaving the door open and everything that was in the cabinet hanging out on the floor and in between. Arrrrgghhh!
Oh, and I also voted for "baby's who cry in movie theaters" not because I hate babies and moms, but because it's "babies who cry..." Apostrophes where they don't belong is one of my pet peeves.
Guilty as charged, friend! I have become a serial comma user!
OK, I know I'm going to bring all sorts of wrath down on myself, but I'll say it anyway: breastfeeding in public.
It always embarrasses me when I see it, and I have to avert my eyes, because I think I'm seeing something very intimate that the public--me included--has no business viewing or watching.
Wonder why? Guess gay men are not immune to the sexualization of women's bodies. Women's bodies have been used as sexual objects for so long, that when a mother breastfeeds - actually uses her breasts for what they are for - people get embarrassed because they believe she is exposing something that should only be seen in intimate sexual moments.
I understand the feeling, though. I've sexualized men's bodies so much, I get embarrassed if a guy I find good looking takes off his shirt.
Amen, sister and brother! I can't stand the abysmal spelling and grammar all over the internet.
A pet peeve I think no one has mentioned: loud, repeated yawning, especially over the phone. I have a friend who regularly calls me while relaxing in bed: "I'm just lying in bed [YAWN], just being lazy.... [YAWN] God I'm feeling so laaaaazy today [YAWN]...
I keep asking her not to do that but it never seems to take. (And also, does such a phone call have any purpose, or do people not have anything better to do than listen to you yawn?)
But the "serial comma" is not a misuse. Some of us still consider that the proper use. ???
Not using a comma before "and" in a series is a dang, newfangled innovation. ... >:(
I REALLY dont' want to see snot, urine, feces, seminal fluid....none of that stuff....milk isnt' that much different to me. It is all 'natural'..dont' make it less disgusting.
It's interesting that the top two things that people hate are rudeness and mean people. I agree. Who wouldn't hate that? But, then, there's so much of it around!! Why, I wonder!
About belching & burping, nose picking, bum scratching, hairiness, etc. that doesn't bother me if it's a friend. Those are all endearing qualities IMHO! Also, people who spit when talking, they are likely to be passionate about what they're saying. I just try to dodge the wetness and keep on listening! Bad breath and bad hygiene don't bother me; I probably give back in kind!
So, there are people who detest immigrants? Why? aren't we all immigrants? I don't think there are many Native Americans on BetterMost (maybe David, partly!)
Hearing someone use the bathroom: now that is funny. Some guys sound like a horse when they let loose! It doesn't bother me at all.
Perhaps this from the first post should be repeated.
(http://bestsmileys.com/angry2/6.gif)WARNING! (some options may be offensive)...... :-\
Wonder why? Guess gay men are not immune to the sexualization of women's bodies. Women's bodies have been used as sexual objects for so long, that when a mother breastfeeds - actually uses her breasts for what they are for - people get embarrassed because they believe she is exposing something that should only be seen in intimate sexual moments.
Okay, if I'm allowed to be a serial comma user, then which comma(s) were you thinking were misused, in the spirit of wanting to improve myself friend!
Just after my sister gave birth to her first child, she thought it would be funny to squirt me in the face with her milk. :P
Wonder why? Guess gay men are not immune to the sexualization of women's bodies. Women's bodies have been used as sexual objects for so long, that when a mother breastfeeds - actually uses her breasts for what they are for - people get embarrassed because they believe she is exposing something that should only be seen in intimate sexual moments.
I think I explained why. It just strikes me that nursing is a very private and intimate thing between a mother and her child, and nobody else's business. This has nothing to do with sex.
You don't have to read it if you don't want to. It's the author of the poll who introduced those topics!
I think I explained why. It just strikes me that nursing is a very private and intimate thing between a mother and her child, and nobody else's business. This has nothing to do with sex.
Tell you what. I was a "bottle baby."
Plus, in my work I've had to look at so many photographs of diseased, pendulous female breasts, that, added to the fact that I'm gay--no way do I "sexualize" the female breast. :-\
A set of muscular male pectoral muscles, to be sure, but the female breast? Nope. ...
???
She's feeding her baby. Why is that 'no one else's business' and an 'intimate' thing?
So if you're eating or you're feeding your child a hamburger or bowl of cereal, are you going to go somewhere private since it's no one else's business when someone else is eating?
Looks like a plain-jane everyday thing to me. And they do it many times per day.
Perhaps if society let them do it whenever their child needed to be fed, there would be less of these rosy ideas of 'intimate moments' for something as dirt-common as feeding a hungry child.
???
She's feeding her baby. Why is that 'no one else's business' and an 'intimate' thing?
So if you're eating or you're feeding your child a hamburger or bowl of cereal, are you going to go somewhere private since it's no one else's business when someone else is eating?
Looks like a plain-jane everyday thing to me. And they do it many times per day.
Perhaps if society let them do it whenever their child needed to be fed, there would be less of these rosy ideas of 'intimate moments' for something as dirt-common as feeding a hungry child.
The women didn't do that to their breasts on purpose to gross you out. :-\
Well I can't speak for the others but the reason it feels awkward to me is because a woman's breasts are a very personal and private thing. Society teaches us this. And I always feel awkward looking in a general direction where a woman's breasts are exposed, or may be exposed. So I avert my eyes. If I am looking in her general direction she may think I am staring at her. And if she thought I was, how would she react? What would she think? So I do everything in my power to give her and the baby their privacy.
But that's just me.
If you think a mother nursing her child from her own breast is equivalent to anyone, adult or child, eating a hamburger, you and I clearly have no further or common grounds to discuss this topic.
Nursing a child is "dirt-common"? That's just coarse.
Um, yeah it is. Guess you haven't been around many nursing mothers have you? That would be the common ground you're apparently unfamiliar with. Yes, nursing mothers sit around, shooting the shit while their babies grope their breasts and suckle. It's quite normal.
"Coarse"? It's just an expression to mean extremely common. Like dirt is ubiquitous.
Ever been to 3rd world nations? Breast-feeding is done anywhere and everywhere, women whip it out and it's done. And the men of those countries - who are not gay - are not so caught up with the whole "breast fetish" that men in this country are. Wonder why?
maybe because women in those countries dont' try to have it both ways? women in this country wear pushup bras and low cut tops to attract attention sexually, then get flabbergasted that men start thinking breasts are sex objects. ::) ::)
It's kinda the other way around, isn't it? Why do women with push-up bras and low cut tops get attention? I think it's because it's not a very common sight - breasts are usually covered up most of the time. And so when they finally get unveiled, straight men go gaga.
Like way back in the day, when women wore dresses down to the ground - all the time. The sight of a woman's ankle was enough to bring down entire civilizations due to the sexual licentiousness of it all.
Majority of the sexiness comes from the forbidden fruit thing. The less one has/sees of something, the more it is desired.
whichever, if you think I am gonna advocate women going topless to try to retrain men, you gonna be waiting a while.
I would not want to be a member of that new religion, Dela!! Amen!!
People cracking their knuckles!
I do it sometimes, but I hate it when other's do it. Does that make me hypocritical? :-\
DAvid!! You'd end up hating me! I crack my knuckles ALL the time - IO dont even realise I'm doing it.. i also rack my toes, my knees my ankles... but I'm sure you'd love me anyway.. right!?
;)
Oh and my pet peeve - people who leave the stickers on the sole of their shoes.. GHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
I am peeved when I wear my spiffy cowboy boots but the tops don't show because they are covered up by my jeans or pants!
We must hold the line against the 'ofs' of the world, Gil! Don't get me started on pronunciation and grammatical pet peeves! I'm overrun with them!
Now that I live by myself, I have escaped from a pet peeve in the kitchen: having to scoop all the bits of food and trash out of the left side of the sink and put it in the right side of the sink where there's a garbage disposal. I used to have to do this several times a day, but no more! (unless you count the times I do it over at my daughter's house, where I hang out two afternoons a week.)
I'm reviving this thread, not just because it's Throwback Thursday but because I realized a behavior that peeves me very much. Have you ever noticed there are certain people you call who never answer their phone? Never! So you have to leave a message every time. And then, five minutes later, they call you. You answer, and they say "This is so-and-so." And then they don't say anything and that's when you realize that they didn't listen to your message and you are going to have to repeat it over again! Why do such people even have voicemail? :P
My biggest pet peeve is people writing should of instead of should have or should've. Aaargh! It's so rampant that I'm sure it will soon be accepted.
Speaking of bad grammar:
[The Polling Place] Re: What Is The Most Disgusting Thing You've Ever Ate?
Yes, that is the pits! Even in laissez-faire companies, some kind of policing is important, e.g., label the food with your name and date.
And I also hate when the opposite happens, people take food that isn't theirs! Really? You have to take someone else's lunch?
Oh, trust me, it's happened at my office!
Never to me, but it's happened.
If that were to ever happen to me, I would make a 'dummy' lunch that is spiked with ghost pepper sauce, and wait for the show.
Kids of that age should be taken to a park to ride, not on a sidewalk.
kids of that age should be taken to a park to ride, not on a sidewalk.
We have a TV at work.
Criticizing what other people watch on tv. LOL
We have a TV at work, and sometimes someone will mention a show they watch, and others will say 'Ugh, how can you watch that? Such an awful show!"
I was reading about artificial intelligence in TNY, and piqued by a description of Westworld. Anthony Hopkins plays a cyborg in it? Right up my alley.
I'm a bit behind. . .trying to make it through the second season of Grace and Frankie, but it's slow going.
Pet peeves on Facebook:
1. Misspelling a word (ettiquette) and then spelling it right in another place (etiquette).
But other than that, this article is spot-on:
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Two pet peeves, both related to train travel.
The first is people who talk loudly into their phones so that half the car can hear them. I once learned far more than necessary about the relationship between some guy sitting directly behind me and his girlfriend. Then there was the entitled young woman (overweight, very short haircut, hair dyed green and purple) who boarded the train in Lancaster (as did I, of course). She sat two rows in front of me across the aisle and carried on a very loud conversation into her phone. Finally I flagged down a conductor and asked him to ask her if she could keep it down. He did, she replied, "Sure," then went right on talking just as loudly as before.
As for the second, I suppose everyone knows how passenger cars are laid out--two seats together on both sides of the car, with an aisle down the center. What might not be known is that Amtrak cars have a power outlet in the car wall at each set of seats. Yesterday for about half the ride home, I was by myself, seated in the window seat. Then some entitled Gen-whatever took the aisle seat, opened her laptop, and reached right across me to plug in the power cord. "Sorry," she said, "I have to charge this." I kept my cool and merely said that I was getting out at Philadelphia (the train ran through to New York City), and would she like to change seats so she would be right next to the outlet? I did, however, say that I didn't like the cord across my legs. She just said, "Oh, thank you," and we changed seats. This is not the first time this has happened.
Amtrak's quiet car is a wonderful thing, but I suppose it's only on Acela, not on the regional trains.