Pet Peeves
July 25th, 2008 by Mopsy
My last post inspired me to compile a list of all my pet peeves. So, here goes:
- The phrase “pet peeve”. I like pets, and the word peeve is fine by itself. I even like “Peeves”, the ghost from Harry Potter. But this phrase bugs the shit out of me. It sounds like something uttered by a complete tool, the same kind who’d use words like stick-to-it-ive-ness.
- Complete tools.
- The word sticktoitiveness.
- The fact that freezers have no lights.
- The fact that bags of chips are only half way full when first opened.
- The large amount of people who have no real personality, yet have an over-earnestness in telling you just how awful you are for not sticking to societal norms.
- Blatantly incorrect grammar.
- Societal norms.
- Stupid people.
- Ignorance.
- People who are too stuck in their ways to try a new method for the same end.
- People who use one bad experience as a means to justify not doing something ever.
- People that have strong views on irrelevant things that hold no pertinence to life, yet run their life based on aforementioned views
- Religion.
- Politics.
- The word ‘umpteenth’.
- The word ‘uber’.
- When people say “welcome back” in IM conversations when you get back from a few minutes. It bothers me unless you were on vacation or something.
- Unfinished lists, especially ones about pet peeves.
