Little things...little rants...
Not something that causes great angst or a visit to the shrink couch,
but things that just seem to rub us the wrong way.

The one that is irking me this morning:

Scratchy labels sewn into the collars of clothes.
I swear they use plastic thread and leave the ends out just to stick in the back of your neck.
Nothing diminishes the feel of a nice soft cotton sweater than a ridiculous nylon label in the collar.
Aaarrrggghhhh...

Ok..done.
T xo

the White Stripes
vegetables
having nothing to do at work but having to still look busy
generic singer/songwriters
how I can't permanently get rid of facial hair
John Lennon still dead
reality shows

Too-long, too-sharp fingernails, and no emery board in sight.

fearmongers in any venue

Pet Peeves I have with my wife:

when she leaves the toilet seat cover up:) (I don't like the animals to drink out of the toilet in the basement)

when she uses her electric toothbrush in front of me. it gives me the ebgbies.

whenever anyone clips their fingernails in front of me.

I can't wait to see if nichole will post her pet peeves with me... ...could be extensive.

The misuse of the word "literally".

It figuratively makes me puke everytime I hear it used incorrectly.

DJD

LOL! Yes!

Also, misuse of the words "affect" and "effect," and confusion of their/there/they're and its/it's. I'm such an English major.

I have several, but gum crackers/poppers/smackers are the most irksome.

Cher

Drivers who don't use their turn signals.

also known as Texans

and what about people who use the left signal when turning right?
happens all the time in AL

people who talk and/or whisper in movies. yes, we can hear you.

tailgaters. "If you're not a hemorroid, get off my ass."

and that includes people who use cell phones, even to message throughout the movie

"formatted for your t.v." (also makes me cry)
"pepsi is the same thing"
"how are you?" as a statement rather than a question
"out of print"

Vanilla Coke®
Geese

amen, sister!

Were we related in a past life?

A few more:

Grease
mosh pits
Chinese Democracy still not released
Every album I want to buy only released in Europe

um.......maybe!

but i do like c'stone mosh pitts cause everyone moshes with manners!

I hate wire hangers...

and 'Your' and 'You're'...

gah!

The fact that Toto, Thunder, Marillion, Primal Scream, the Manic Street Preachers, A-Ha, or the Jeevas will ever tour the States.

i'm sorry! kylie and florida girl:

i do this all the time! not because i don't know the difference, but because the grey matter leaked out a long time ago. i also often write 'me' for 'my'...don't know where that comes from. sometimes though, i just don't care.
please accept my apology in advance. also feel free to p.m. any corrections, rants, or @!#$%^ to me as you feel the need.
open season!
d.

it's ok, deb.

i have trouble with 'affect' and 'effect'.

See, if I saw grammar errors from one of you guys, I just would figure you had mistyped. I don't plan on chewing anyone as nice as you all out over it.

My 1 neighbor who refuses to wave. My other neighbor who has to nose in on everything.
Corporate radio.

Big frowny face for you buster.

Big ditto on that one.

Most of mine relate to poor body space, like how the people here in MI mostly walk on the left side of the aisle/sidewalk instead of the widely accepted/practiced right side. Then, they'll push their way throught like somehow you're in the wrong! Or how they won't make eye contact with you, or smile at you, or wait patiently in line behind for a cart, or look both ways before flying out of a side aisle (everyone knows the main aisle has the right of way), or how they won't let you in when you're trying to merge into traffic or how they bump against you while you're standing in line at the bank or getting on an airplane.... oh I guess it's mostly MI people that get on my nerves. Don't worry, I do like some Michiganders I realize I'm sounding prejudiced or discriminitory or something ignorant like that.

When people don't trust me (I'm extremely trustworthy), treat me like a child, or belittle my ideas

Entitled people

The people here in Suburbian Detroit who talk about black folks like they're aliens.

LUke: Interrogations, playing with the ends of my fingernails, Overdoses of grouchiness , I really can't think of too much. You're really not very annoying at all to me. Although your parents find this remarkable.


"you're lack of trust, is hardly just, so do as you've been told..." Phish

For all those with English pet peeves, you may enjoy this Strong Bad email:) I know I did!
http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail89.html
At the end, make sure you click on the strong arm by strong bads name to hear all his Rhythm and Grammar Songs!
~margarita

Hey woman! You never had one of MY Vanilla Cokes. Yum! Of course, I made 'em at the local DQ from fountain Cokes and vanilla shake/malt flavoring. Better yet were the Cherry Cokes made with cherry sundae topping complete with cherries. Da bomb, I tell yah! Goddess, do I feel old!

Cher

how about email touting V^I%A*G@R#A etc. ?

They still make 'em this way at Steak 'n' Shake, and I tell you, the first time I had Vanilla Coke from a can I was sorely disappointed.

I get really bugged by a lot of "moldy oldy" praise songs in church, mostly because I sang them from elementary school through high school surrounded by a completely uninterested group of people. Thus, I automatically tune out during songs like "This Little Light of Mine" and "What a Mighty God We Serve." I know some people who get really into them, and I respect that because they're worshipping honestly, but I always feel a little dead inside when I'm singing them.

Oh, my other major pet peeve is a President who cannot pronounce nuclear and insists we're fighting a war against terror. So, we're fighting a war against a feeling rather than an act?

People at "work" who can work the system so well they can stay out "sick" while the rest of us can't even get a vacation day.
Speaking of work: the man behind me that tries to talk more intelligent than he really is, using big words and phrases and trying to sound much more smarter (I did that on purpose) than he really is. Oh, and the man behind him who thinks he is so necessary that he has to put stupid notes on his desk as to his whereabouts. I guess work is a pet peeve for me right now.
Thankfully there is this here orchard....

Let's not forget American's.

ditto.
d.

My big pet peeves (I have two):

1) People who make wide left turns

2) Myself when I get hung up on all my little pet peeves

Well, take solace in this Russ: I am sure that you are much more funner than he is!

I am telling you, wire coat hangers...they are terrible! They always get tangled up and fall. Also, when people say "pee-cans" instead of "pecans" sorry...I can't lie, I am a Texan, but I DO use my turn signal, I promise

I always donate our wire hangers (we get them from the cleaners) to the salvation army and write them of at a nickle a piece.

Now I will start thinking about wire-hangers (NO WIRE HANGERS!!!!!) and they will start getting on my nerves.

Homestarrunner.com (sorry, I'm such a snob at times)
too many sunny days (I live in Oregon, what can I say)
peopel who complain whenever they are too hot or too cold (GET OVER IT!!!)
people who stereotype (and I do this all the time too)
people who care nothing about anything but money
Large corporations
people who follow the leader
people who think that just because a pastor said it, it must be right
people who are overly charismatic in their Christianity
street preachers
peopel who repeat their storys over and over and over and over again (also guilty of this)
people who think I'm wrong because I disagree with them
people who think it's imposible to be a liberal and a christian
people who misuse words out of ignorance (does the word Diva ring a bell?)
Julia Roberts
Reese Witherspoon

Ok, I'm going to stop there before I really get going. Haha.

People who do the little " " thing with thei fingers.

Did you see the episode of Freinds when Joey kept "trying to use quotes" and had "no idea" when to use them? It was pretty dang funny.

YES!!!

Though technically, I think we're fighting a war on terra.

Also, people who are too snobby to like Homestarrunner.com. (KIDDING!)

Yes...Joey is the funniest Friends character, I think.
I believe he is going to do a spin off show after Friends is through.

Joey is hoping to do a Frasier I hear. He's moving to the oppisette part of the country near a sibling, where he is supposed to be a lot more sucessful than in the original series. Speaking of Pet peeves, I'll admit that sometimes I want to blow my brains out while watching freinds. <kidding>

" 'Oh, if you want it to be possessive, it's just ITS, but if it's supposed to be a contraction, then it's IT-apostrophe-S.' Scalawag."

"Y-O-U-R. Y-O-U-apostrophe-R-E. They're as different as night and day. Don't you think that night and day are different? What's wrong with you?"

Brilliant. There's also the well thought-out Englilsh paper by Ryan "The Yellow Dart" Smith.

Just because I wanted to prove that I'm not a snob, I went to that strongbad email mentioned above. Yeah, the song was funny, but the whole thing drags on a bit too much. Sorry pepes. you won't convince me.

I'm proud of you, aaron. That was a big step.