Pet Peeves

[Misty Avich]

People who label everyone with high self-esteem a narcissist


When people go "om nom nom" when expressing a food preference

 

[Cryptid]

• The lack of an Oxford Comma where one is absolutely necessary

• Ellipses between more than two complete sentences

• Periods at the ends of incomplete sentences

• Run-on sentences because the writer must explain every detail of the previous clause making the sentence impossible to parse and causing me a great deal of discomfort when trying to deduce whatever it is the writer originally intended to say simply because I have not the patience to parse every word and separate each clause with the proper punctuation so as to make it more readable and thus render the meaning obvious to all.

 

[Misty Avich]

When people say "for the record"

 

[Rodafina]

I think pet peeves are a terrible waste of thought and put a lot of negative energy out into the world.

Every time I read this thread, I think to myself well there’s another person I will piss off by simply existing.

Maybe we could all relax a little and just let people be as they are. Most of the time It’s not really that big of a deal and won’t affect your day all that much.

 

[Misty Avich]

It's OK to talk about things we don't like. It's just a way to get things off our chest. I probably do things that are other people's pet peeves but it doesn't matter.

Positivity all the time gets boring.

 

[Rodafina]

Positivity all the time gets boring.

The absence of negativity can be neutrality. Sometimes things simply are.

Finding negativity as a reaction to boredom doesn’t make sense to me.

 

[SPEED RACER]

When someone shows up unexpectedly

 

[mysterionz]

Run-on sentences because the writer must explain every detail of the previous clause

Mojo Jojo from the powerpuff girls (a Cartoon Network show) was known for doing this. A whole episode based on this eccentricity was written where everyone in Townsville slowly starts to speak like him, dubbed Molinguish

 

[chincey_james]

When people change plans at the last minute

When I am forced to do an "icebreaker" at a social gathering

When commercials are way louder than the video I am watching

 

[mysterionz]

When people go "om nom nom" when expressing a food preference

The word “yummy” bothers me. Idk why.

 

[Misty Avich]

When people on the spectrum say "spectrumites". Sounds like some sort of bug, like termites.

 

[Cryptid]

When people say they want your help and advice, and then reject your help and advice as hostile acts.

 

[SPEED RACER]

When someone borrows something and it ends up missing ugh

 

[Misty Avich]

When people call homosexual people "queer". I don't know why, but the word queer sounds like it could be a synonym for odd or strange or even wrong. Homosexual people aren't wrong or odd or strange.

 

[Misty Avich]

Word salads

 

[Cryptid]

When people who are walking chasms of despair and need interject their misery into every nearby conversation regardless of the original topic of that conversation.

Sure, I understand clinical depression (I'm going through a bit of it right now, but I'll survive), and I know that some people also have their "dark days"; but when I'm talking with someone about their plans for the weekend, and Mr. Chasm walks up and starts his litany of gloominess without even being invited to join in, that is what sets me off. And I am not the only one to whom he does this -- it's everyone who seems to be having a good time talking to someone else.

I really want to rip Mr. Chasm a new one and tell him to get a life of his own, but that would be a display of my own tactless and insensitive nature. So instead, I find an excuse to walk away and do my very best to avoid that person entirely.

 

[Catwoman]

When Mr. Chasm doesn't laugh at my jokes.

 

[Misty Avich]

When the photo I want to use on a personalised gift doesn't appear in my camera pictures even though it's there when just browsing through my camera pictures.

 

[Misty Avich]

People who think that just because you hate having autism it means you hate all autistic people

When people say "shedule" instead of
"schedule"

When you desperately want advice for instant relief of an ailment but all the Google answers are for long-term, including diet. I want to relieve cystitis NOW so I can get a bit of sleep, not in a fortnight!

 

[Slime_Punk]

Chalkboards. Not just nails on a chalkboard, but chalk, chalkboards, thinking about chalkboards, etc.

I don't really have a lot of texture hypersensitivities that lasted into adulthood, but this one is pretty bad. Someone mentioned it in a Youtube video and I finally felt (oddly) validated because I had never heard anyone express how badly they hated just touching chalkboards in general.

Sometimes I wonder if things like this can be challenged, because that could be an interesting journey