{"id":33,"date":"2017-11-21T17:30:32","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T01:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jagallien.wordpress.com\/?p=33"},"modified":"2024-02-29T12:44:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T20:44:36","slug":"pet-peeves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaymason.gallien.us\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"Pet Peeves: A small list of annoyances"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As a blessing to whichever serial killer finds it first, here’s a list of the things that bother me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

General:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

radio feedback
\nreferring to heavy metal music as “Screamo”
\nWhen the person performing roll-call can’t pronounce any of the names
\ntelemarketers
\nThe amount of bobby pins a woman can leave around
\npeople who don’t read books
\nbad breath
\nwhen stupid people passionately argue clearly wrong views
\nwhen smart people passionately argue clearly wrong views
\nadults who enjoyed Twilight
\npeople who answer “yes” or “no” questions with a 30+ minute explanation
\nlying
\nreferring to the same thing by several different names (e.g. spatula, flipper, etc)
\nthe lack of understanding of your\/you’re or their\/there\/they’re
\npeople who will go out of their way to correct you on this
\nasking for an opinion and then ignoring it
\npeople who stand too close when they talk to you
\nWhen someone steals jokes from a meme and acts as though it’s an original thought.
\nClip-on or zipper neckties.
\nDust covers (books)
\npeople who mix up “i.e.” and “e.g.”
\nwhen the inside of the food is frozen, but the outside burns your mouth (see: microwaves)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fashion:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

wearing brown shoes with a black belt (or the opposite)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Driving:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People who incessantly change lanes thinking that it makes them arrive sooner
\nPeople who sneak in at the last minute and steal your parking space
\nCars with after-market spoilers and stock engines<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the World of Computers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reply-All on emails
\nkeyboards that aren’t QWERTY. (Dvorak gets a pass, if only for uniqueness)
\npeople who print out e-mails and bring them to you, in-person
\nCaMeLcAsE
\nMicrosoft
\nweb-apps that only work with one browser
\nNote: If that browser is Internet Explorer, you can die in a fire.
\nthe following naming-convention for network types:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stub Area
\nTotally Stubby Area
\nNot So Stubby Area<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consumer-grade wireless routers
\npeople who mark all meeting requests as “tentative”
\nfilenames with spaces in them.txt
\npeople who seem to exist without spell-check
\nWhen you get a message at work that says “hey, you got a minute?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Small might be a fib.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[11,15],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogging","category-things-that-irritate-me","tag-blogging","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaymason.gallien.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaymason.gallien.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaymason.gallien.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaymason.gallien.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaymason.gallien.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jaymason.gallien.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428,"href":"https:\/\/jaymason.gallien.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaymason.gallien.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaymason.gallien.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaymason.gallien.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaymason.gallien.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}