Pet Peeves

[Lady Dimitrescu 9,731]

They all get anxiety attacks just because they have to deal with a customer, so they hide behind the counter.

[Naïve Old Fart 11,523]

1 hour ago, Unlucky Bastard said:

They all get anxiety attacks just because they have to deal with a customer, so they hide behind the counter.

 

Indeed.

It gets worse, or funnier, depending upon your pov.

I go to a shop called Sports Direct, which is a massive franchise sports shop. I wish to buy one of their holdalls. There are some displayed behind the counter. The assistant reaches for the holdall and asks for payment. Thing is, so it can be displayed, the holdall is stuffed to the gills with plastic.

I asked for the plastic to be taken out, only to be told that the shop's bin was full, and that there is a bin outside the shop. I'm a mixture of anger, and crying with laughter.

Eventually the assistant takes the plastic out of the holdall and puts it in another bin situated conveniently out of eyesight.

Really? It boggles the mind to think of the kind of training that modern assistants are given.

 

I have a really good story about a snarky young man and a home cinema system, but I'll save that for another day 

[Mr. Lovejoy 7,993]

What's with all these 'Whole Body Deodorant' ads aggressively being pushed? I only watch two channels but I keep seeing these ads to roll sticks or spray chemicals all over your body including implying how a woman's vagina stinks. There's one themed to Beetlejuice now.

 

 

Maybe it's a feminine thing and they all secretly stink without spraying products all over themselves and now the secret is out. I just shower and apply deodorant to my pits.

[Lady Dimitrescu 9,731]

I thought they smelt bad... on the outside. Ohh

[Naïve Old Fart 11,523]

1 hour ago, John Dutton said:

... I keep seeing these ads to roll sticks or spray chemicals all over your body including implying how a woman's vagina stinks...

 

Geez, Louise! Imagine if they had adverts for head cheese.

[Jay 42,255]

It's just capitalism.  These companies realized that if they convinced people they need to apply deodorant to more parts of their bodies than just their pits, then they can sell more product.  That's it.

[Mr. Lovejoy 7,993]

You're not fully clean until you're Zestfully clean

[Naïve Old Fart 11,523]

So... this clunge deodorant; is it spray, or roll-on?

[Sweeping Strings 2,839]

The roll-on could disappear up there, never to be seen again. 

[Naïve Old Fart 11,523]

9 hours ago, Sweeping Strings said:

The roll-on could disappear up there, never to be seen again. 

 

Post of the fucking week! 

Well done, Sweep!

[Naïve Old Fart 11,523]

It's not really a peeve as such, but... it makes me laugh when people answer their cell phones and say: "I can't talk, right now". If they can't talk, then why did they answer the blooming thing? 

[Jay 42,255]

To let the person know that they don't have time for a longer conversation, but don't want to completely ignore their attempt at communication

[Meredith McKay 7,799]

The funny thing is when they have a voicemail message that begins "you have reached...." It's like, uh no I haven't!

[Naïve Old Fart 11,523]

8 hours ago, Jay said:

To let the person know that they don't have time for a longer conversation, but don't want to completely ignore their attempt at communication

 

Nah. That dog don't hunt.

Usually, they have several full bags of shopping, and, more often than not, a child (or more) in tow. They have to put the shopping down, and shut the child up, before they even pull the cell out from their back pocket. Then they start screaming into the cell, while at the same time, screaming at the child. Then they have to pick up the shopping, gather the child, and continue on their way.

Better to just let it go to answering service and call back from home.

[Jay 42,255]

How does that contradict what I said? They're still immediately letting the person know that they are aware they want to talk to them.  They just don't have time for the full conversation now.

[Naïve Old Fart 11,523]

Every so often I watch a film where a young person asks an old person: "What's it like to...?" usually something unpleasant, like kill someone, to which the older person, in a gravelly voice replies: "You don't wanna know."

Of course they want to know, that's why they asked the bleedin' question!

[Jay 42,255]

Right, its short for "you think you want to know, but you don't REALLY want to know".  Makes perfect sense to me.

[Mr. Lovejoy 7,993]

I was told to look at my bank account because a surprise big bonus should have shown up, which it did, then I noticed a charge right next to it for something I'd never heard of. Apparently I was subscribed to Grubhub+, a service I've never used and never subscribed to. This has gone on for years funneling my hard earned money without my consent. I use Doordash to get my Jack in the Crack tacos delivered for an absurd charge while feral cats converge on the bag before I open the door and they scatter.

[Holko 11,287]

Looking at the insane abundance of classical recordings but not finding a single one that's just right.

 

I'm not asking for anything obscure or special, just a simple pleasing Music for the Royal Fireworks. But I went through the first pages of Presto's and Tidal's listings sampling La Réjouissance from each and couldn't find a single one that fit what was in my head, or ended up feeling good enough.

- This one's played like they were late for the bus and had to get it over with

- This one's played slow as hell

- This one's played slow as hell too

- This one too

- This one softens all the fun staccato, it's a choice but not one I like

- This one uses weird horns who can barely play it

- This one has an inconsistent tempo

- In this one the trumpeter thought he was hot shit and overdid everything

- This one adds insane overpowering percussion

- This would be great but it's a reduction to a tiny string-based chamber orchestra when it's supposed to be a big outdoors wind orchestra

- This one too

- This one sounds completely off, like the tape was running at the wrong speed

- Aaaarrrghhhhh seriously, decades of recordings and not a single one I'd love?

[Sweeping Strings 2,839]

There's a house across the street from mine currently undergoing renovation. The labourer working on it today sat in his van for some time before actually beginning work, with its radio cranked up so loud I could hear it over my TV. 

WHY, for fuck's sake? It wasn't even a music station he was listening to, it was clearly a talk/phone-in etc one and it's not as if the radio is far away. Still it's over now and at least he isn't working in the house with all the windows open and with another cranked-up radio combining with power tools in a symphony of grating annoyance, as has previously happened.  

[Mr. Lovejoy 7,993]

He could be hard of hearing due to constant exposure to the sounds of construction. 

[Sweeping Strings 2,839]

Well, in that case he's an idiot for not wearing ear defenders. And I don't have much sympathy for idiots.  

[Jurassic Shark 14,827]

On 17/10/2024 at 3:30 PM, Holko said:

just a simple pleasing Music for the Royal Fireworks.

 

Simple? I'll give you the best there is.

 

 

[Naïve Old Fart 11,523]

That recording is a bad mofo.

[Mr. Lovejoy 7,993]

I can't fathom why whatever weirdo is running the Titanic official social media page would post Jack's death on the 4th of July.

 

[Not Mr. Big 4,812]

When you go into Walmart and the air is so dry my eyes are tearing up.  I swear I'm not crying because they put the naughty items behind glass.  The two things are completely unrelated 

[Meredith McKay 7,799]

10 hours ago, Not Mr. Big said:

When you go into Walmart

Fixed.

[Mr. Lovejoy 7,993]

[Lady Dimitrescu 9,731]

[Naïve Old Fart 11,523]

Idiots who insist that the town of Shrewsbury, is pronounced "Shroosbury".

It's pronounced "Shrosebury".

[Meredith McKay 7,799]

38 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

Idiots who insist that the town of Shrewsbury, is pronounced "Shroosbury".

It's pronounced "Shrosebury".

Sure it's not Snozberry?

[Naïve Old Fart 11,523]

Er... no.

 

 

And another thing... those "intelligent" saucepans that keep turning down the heat when I'm trying to cook my chilli.

What. The. Actual?!

[Omen II 1,268]

2 hours ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

Idiots who insist that the town of Shrewsbury, is pronounced "Shroosbury".

It's pronounced "Shrosebury".

 

Shrewsbury is a rare example of a place name where either of two pronunciations is correct.  I have always pronounced the town's name as 'Shroosbury' (in common with most of the people who live in the town itself, I believe) but rest assured that I do not insist that the alternative pronunciation is incorrect.

 

Coincidentally, the train stopped at Shrewsbury on Saturday on my way to Wrexham / Wrecsam.  We had to abandon the train and await rescue due to a flash flood near the Welsh border (thank you @Storm Bert!), but that's a story for another day.

[Jay 42,255]

In my home state of Massachusetts, USA, we have a town called Shrewsbury that is pronounced "Shroosbury".  I didn't know it took its name from a European town

[Mr. Lovejoy 7,993]

Didn't the whole northeast steal its names from the Eurozone?

[Naïve Old Fart 11,523]

Yep. There's a Boston, in Lincolnshire.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,858]

Maine is fill of European placenames. So is New York actually.

[Naïve Old Fart 11,523]

Not a peeve, but... it always amuses me when I'm with friends (or on my own), and someone (and it's often been me ) calls up the local takeaway, and says: "I'd like to order some food."

Well, what else are they going to order? A sofa? 

[Jay 42,255]

That's an easy one.    They might be calling to say "I'm just calling to see when you close tonight?" or something else.  Indicating that you want to order gets the employee ready to take it down.

[Meredith McKay 7,799]

53 minutes ago, Jay said:

That's an easy one.    They might be calling to say "I'm just calling to see when you close tonight?" or something else.  Indicating that you want to order gets the employee ready to take it down.

To be fair, they could just say "I would like to make an order" or "I would like to order"

[Mr. Lovejoy 7,993]

 

This name sucks

[Mr. Hooper 4,953]

Oh man, does it ever. 

[Jay 42,255]

Never seen that before!

[Sweeping Strings 2,839]

And lo, thus the entire world ... carried right on calling him E.T. 

[Naïve Old Fart 11,523]

"Zrek"? Really? In 42 1/2 years, no-one knew E.T.'s name, now some AI says it's Zrek?

I smell fresh ink, guys.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,858]

I don't accept it. Not even if it came from Spielberg's mouth.

[Lady Dimitrescu 9,731]

He's been re-Christened.

[Meredith McKay 7,799]

Apparently it came from an cancelled sequel:

 

https://www.ladbible.com/entertainment/film/et-real-name-steven-spielberg-935903-20240818

 

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,858]

Spielberg was right to never making or allowing a sequel to be made.

[Lady Dimitrescu 9,731]

E.2. – The Extra-Tworrestrial