BS: Pet peeves

Subject: BS: Pet peeves
From: kendall
Date: 26 Jul 05 - 08:50 AM

There has been too much acrimony here and I think it would be a good idea to give everyone a particular place to vent without attacking someone.

One of my pet peeves is, ONE PLY TOILET PAPER.

Subject: RE: BS: Pet peeves
From: GUEST,Dave'sWife
Date: 26 Jul 05 - 08:57 AM

mine is mockingbirds singing outside my window all nightlong, every night for four months at a time. ..oh, nevermind.. I already kvetched about this in the Randy Squirrels thread...

Subject: RE: BS: Pet peeves
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 26 Jul 05 - 08:59 AM

Conservatives and having to pay to use a public toilet.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: Pet peeves
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 26 Jul 05 - 09:04 AM

mobile phone users in public & semi-public spaces who SPEAK LOUDLY - obviously so folks know they have FRIENDS & A VERY INTERESTING LIFE.

a related peeve - "hello, where are you?' which has replaced "hello, how are you?"

One-ply dunny paper can be ok, unless it's that extremely thin paper that is really only half-ply, and rips when you just look at it, let alone take hold of it. Folks or organisations that buy it deserve to have it stuffed down the loo. (Now why didn't I think of that the day I met it?, that would have learned 'em)

Subject: RE: BS: Pet peeves
From: Alice
Date: 26 Jul 05 - 09:11 AM

People who drive and talk on a cell phone at the same time.

Subject: RE: BS: Pet peeves
From: Big Mick
Date: 26 Jul 05 - 09:12 AM

Folks, God bless 'em, who pass these rumors around the Internet without checking them to see if they are even true. It takes about 30 seconds to check with TruthorFiction.com before forwarding these things. I just got one called "Amber Alert" which suggested that a little girl was missing, the daughter of a Walmart manager, and could we forward her picture so folks could help find her. Admirable and would seem to be a legitimate use of email. Trouble is I have received this same one several times over the last few years, same picture with different details. A quick check shows it not to be true.

Most of the time these are designed to get someone to think a certain way. Or maybe not to think a certain way. If I get one that isn't true, you may expect a rather curt reply.

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: Pet peeves
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Jul 05 - 09:15 AM

People who throw litter.

Subject: RE: BS: Pet peeves
From: MMario
Date: 26 Jul 05 - 09:17 AM

People who assume they have the same rights as a member of the public using a private location as they do when in a public location.

Subject: RE: BS: Pet peeves
From: freda underhill
Date: 26 Jul 05 - 09:21 AM

too much seriousness, too often.

Subject: RE: BS: Pet peeves
From: GUEST,Dave'sWife
Date: 26 Jul 05 - 09:27 AM

right now I am mightily cheesed off at the colony of fleas that refuses to vacate my dog's coat. They have bit him all red about the legs. I cannot gas them on account of his epilepsy and cannot use the strongest flea drops for same reason. I can only comb them out and suffocate them in alcohol and rub more gentle flea repellent/killer on him. Drat those horrid fleas. I just spent 15 minutes rubbing his legs with shea butter to soothe the bites. poor baby. Bad enough he had three fits yesterday and he couldn't scratch at the fleas himself.

Fleas are rotten creatures. They bring plague, they bite dogs. May God smite them all.

Subject: RE: BS: Pet peeves
From: GUEST,G
Date: 26 Jul 05 - 09:41 AM

....having to pay to use a public toilet that was just used by a Liberal.    (lol)

Dave's Wife; The Bayer company has a product called 'Advantage' that just plain works. Not the cheapest pet product on the planet, $15 per dose, and can be purchased from any vet. I watched the fleas start to drop off Rover 10 minutes after the applicaton. Prevents for about a month. No effect on the pup what soever.

Subject: RE: BS: Pet peeves
From: Amos
Date: 26 Jul 05 - 10:00 AM

People who commit the same sins, errors, offenses and misdemeanours as I do. Especially if they do it better.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Pet peeves
From: The Shambles
Date: 26 Jul 05 - 10:32 AM

The Australian cricket team.

Subject: RE: BS: Pet peeves
From: ranger1
Date: 26 Jul 05 - 10:33 AM

1. Dog poop on trails, lawns and the step to the ranger station.
2. People who don't think the rules apply to them.
3. People who throw cigarettes out of car windows.
And that's just for starters.

Subject: RE: BS: Pet peeves
From: GUEST,Mrr
Date: 26 Jul 05 - 10:43 AM

Oh, I don't know, Peeves might mind being referred to as a pet...

Subject: RE: BS: Pet peeves
From: Wesley S
Date: 26 Jul 05 - 11:42 AM

Pet peeves ? My two cats. As soon as the lights are turned out they play tag and kitty soccer. And at four in the morning they start to cry until someone - me - gets out of bed and walks them to their food bowl so they can have an audience when they sleep.

How are cat gut guitar strings made ?

Subject: RE: BS: Pet peeves
From: Bill D
Date: 26 Jul 05 - 11:50 AM

'Modern' packaging that, under the guise of safety, makes it almost impossible to open a product, even a bag of potato chips or cookies, with one's hands. (Yes, I understand...sorta...secure sealing of electronic gadgets that would be shoplifted)

A few companies actually design in a 'tear here' spot that works, but I am SO tired of straining at a seam made of one of these new plastics until *riiiippppp* half the bag suddenly gives way....or, I have to go find scissors.

(kendall...I work VERY hard to locate decent brands of TWO-ply toilet paper, but since they use almost no old growth timber in TP manufacture now, all TP is of lesser quality than we 'mature' folks remember..I finally solved the TP problem, with, admittedly, a bit of extra expense, by keeping a roll of the better grade of paper towels near the TP (Bounty will do, Kleenex 'Viva' is best!), as they can be dampened for final clean-up. I have found NO...nada...none- regular toilet paper that will suffice alone....and no, I have no room to install a bidét)

Subject: RE: BS: Pet peeves
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Jul 05 - 11:53 AM

Thanks Guest G - I actually use something even more effective than Advantage and have had to apply it twice in 2 weeks because the flea population exploded in Los Angeles for some reason. My Dog has been Flea free for four years and then all the sudden, he's crawling with them. well, his hind legs are crawling with them. The rascals haven't managed to invade his entire body yet.

Maybe it's been the unseasonable heat - I dunno. The fleas are everywhere. We powdered down the house, powdered down the yard - with some kind of boric acis powder I think - it's safe and not a pesticide. i does something to them that makes them die is all I know and it doesn't harm us.

My poor doggie. He's barely gotten over his 3 seizure day yesterday and now he's all red from flea bites and the heat.

Thanks for the advice. Me and fleas are old enemies. I'd have more options if Puppers didn't have epilepsy. Then I could nuke the house and yard and bomb those fleas back to the.. er.. did fleas ever have a stone age?

Subject: RE: BS: Pet peeves
From: GUEST,Dave'sWife
Date: 26 Jul 05 - 11:54 AM

Oops! Above was me

Subject: RE: BS: Pet peeves
From: Bill D
Date: 26 Jul 05 - 11:57 AM

I have a LONG list of other peeves....I may add to this daily..

cyclists, both bicycle and motor, who think the traffic laws do not apply to them. A 'stop' sign applies even if you are peddling! And just becasue you are on two wheels, you do NOT have the right to make you own lanes and ride between cars in order to get ahead. Also, bicycles who ride slowly and block traffic on narrow roads even when there are special cycle paths available!!

Subject: RE: BS: Pet peeves
From: sixtieschick
Date: 26 Jul 05 - 12:09 PM

The plastic wrappers on CDs that are nearly impossible to remove without gouging into the case with an exacto-knife. Will someone puhleez invent one with a little plastic zip-strip thingy like a cigarette box wrapper?

Subject: RE: BS: Pet peeves
From: GUEST,An Englishman Abroad
Date: 26 Jul 05 - 12:13 PM

People who walk their dogs passed my house and think they have the right to let them piss and shit on or around the two large rocks on each side of my drive.

I am having two slabs made one for each side.

One will say: Here lies the last dog that pissed on my land

The other will say: Here lies the owner of the dogs that last pissed on my land.

I am then calling the local paper to do pictures and a story and make sure all around me with dogs no I am not a happy bunny.

all the best       John

Subject: RE: BS: Pet peeves
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 26 Jul 05 - 12:24 PM

Motorists who assume cycle lanes are really parking parking spaces, forcing us to ride in the rest of the traffic slowing it down so they sit three inches behind us.

Anyone who breaks the rules of the road.

Buses.

and plenty more.....

Subject: RE: BS: Pet peeves
From: JennyO
Date: 26 Jul 05 - 12:36 PM

I had a pet peeve once, but it died.

Subject: RE: BS: Pet peeves
From: kendall
Date: 26 Jul 05 - 08:21 PM

Thin skinned people who make mountains out of molehills

Subject: RE: BS: Pet peeves
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Jul 05 - 08:34 PM

Moles who make mountains out of thin skinned people.

Subject: RE: BS: Pet peeves
From: Cobble
Date: 26 Jul 05 - 08:35 PM

Wingeing bastards.

Subject: RE: BS: Pet peeves
From: Bill D
Date: 26 Jul 05 - 09:06 PM

*taking the topic seriously....very seriously....some might say TOO seriously*

I am peeved, nay disgusted, at media...newspapers, TV, radio, movies...etc...who either cannot or WILL not hire people who can edit, spell & pronounce the language... (allowing for basic difference in different cultures.

I saw a made-for-TV movie the other day in which a simulated new program was giving instructions during a disaster. The simulated banner across the bottom of the screen proclaimed "Marshal Law!" Why, I expected a steely-eyed fellow with a six-gun to step into the scene and warn the bad guys!.........What I don't know is, whether they really couldn't spell "Martial", or whether they assumed their audience couldn't and might read it as "marital" law.

I am tired of presumably competent announcers saying someone or something had "wrecked havoc" on something. (I actually emailed a local radio commentator on this a couple of years ago, and he, at least, did express regret)

I am royally pissed at signs or announcements, sometimes BY schools, which cannot differentiate between "accept" and "except"

I am appalled that, after 4-5 years of daily exposure, the news media STILL cannot pronounce "Al Qaeda", "Saddam" or "Iraq" (it is NOT al-KAY-duh, and it is NOT "Eye-rack", no matter what Bush says.)

Those folks 'could' find a source like this and do some basic research, but that might involve giving a damn.

Subject: RE: BS: Pet peeves
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Jul 05 - 10:10 PM

hmmm...your *source* sounds to me like she pronounces it al-KAY-duh.

Subject: RE: BS: Pet peeves
From: GUEST,G
Date: 26 Jul 05 - 10:20 PM

To Guest, Daves' wife; Try the Advantage - it seems to be the only thing (or best) to use in this weather. Pups with the big "E" will not be adversely affected. It is topical and is amazing.

I will personally reimburse you if it doesn't do as I suggest. No, I have no stock in Bayer since the Baycol problem. (Cholesterol)

Subject: RE: BS: Pet peeves
From: GUEST,G
Date: 26 Jul 05 - 10:31 PM

1. Dogs peeing and pooping on my lawn........what a relief that would be compared to people doing the same thing or attempting to do it to me.

2.Bill D.; Stop watching TV as I did a couple months ago, except for College ball games. Read a couple 'left' and a couple 'right' newspapers and a couple mags like Newsweek and National Review.

Draw a conclusion or two and go from there. I cannot believe the change in my outlook, attitude and overall thoughts about my universe.

Subject: RE: BS: Pet peeves
From: Bill D
Date: 26 Jul 05 - 11:51 PM

guest 10:10...scroll down to the bottom of the link page and listen to the pronunciation.

G- I have a program which fetches a wide range of news and analysis from many sources. I always try to know what both sides are saying. TV is one type of mirror on the world, and I even listen/watch a bit of both sides there.....but that is not really the point of this thread, is it?
You see, another of my pet peeves is gratuitous digression from a topic without explanation....*grin*

oh, and I almost NEVER watch college sports anymore, as it involves several more of my VERY deep peeves, which I am too tired to type about this evening.

Subject: RE: BS: Pet peeves
From: GUEST,Shanghaiceltic
Date: 27 Jul 05 - 12:18 AM

Spitting-big problem here.

Comet the small half tailed kitten deciding that licking and nibbling ears at 3 a.m. is fun.

Subject: RE: BS: Pet peeves
From: DougR
Date: 27 Jul 05 - 01:08 AM

I am not sympathetic with folks who are attracted to Llamas.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Pet peeves
From: Bert
Date: 27 Jul 05 - 01:26 AM

Wotcha got against Llamas Doug?

And Kendall, just fold it over a couple of times and it will approximate normal two-ply stuff.

My pet peeves are...

Traffic lights - Nineteenth century technology to try to control twentyfirst century traffic.

Stop signs - They did away with them in England and now use yeild signs instead.

And especailly four way stop signs where your knowledge of your right of way depends upon a sign on another street that you can't see.

Then there's those stupid 'Merge into the Fast Lane' signs. Perhaps you are in the slow lane for a good reason, say your car won't go much faster or perhaps you don't feel confident driving any faster. Well sod you, GET INTO THE FAST LANE ANYWAY.

there's loads more but that's enough for now.

Subject: RE: BS: Pet peeves
From: Kaleea
Date: 27 Jul 05 - 01:54 AM

FLEAS!!   HATE EM!!

When I lived in rural Minnesota, it was the early days of understanding lyme disease & the woods were literally crawling with ticks--the vet told me to wash my doggie (black lab) with Pert Plus shampoo. PERT?? I asked? He said it has a certain ingredient that bugs don't like, & can kill some of them. PLUS?? He says that doggies need conditioner, too. I washed my doggie once a week with Pert Plus, & rarely saw a flea or tick.

My pet peeves are:
   irresponsible people who do not spay &/or neuter animals! Whenever I see strays, I know it is the result of a human who is irresponsible.
   Irresponsible people who do not train their animals. Training classes are all about training the humans.

other peeves:

   Irresponsible parents who do not discipline their children because they can't bother to be consistent & learn the word, "no". Watch nanny 911 for cryin' out loud!

   People who never learned to behave in society (among other humans). Go back to kindergarten. Almost everything you need to know about life you didn't learn when you flunked out of kindergarten.

Subject: RE: BS: Pet peeves
From: Metchosin
Date: 27 Jul 05 - 02:02 AM

I'm not fond of spear grass.

Also, I'm getting a bit ticked at all the old spagetti, rat legs, fried chicken, almonds and raven poop in the horse water trough.

And slugs...slugs are feasting on my water lily and water hyacinths in the water garden tubs at the front door. I throw them as hard and as far as I can into the bushes and they keep coming back.

Subject: RE: BS: Pet peeves
From: Metchosin
Date: 27 Jul 05 - 02:11 AM

the slugs, the slugs keep returning, I can't lift the tubs.

Subject: RE: BS: Pet peeves
From: kendall
Date: 27 Jul 05 - 08:16 AM

Bill D. what can you expect from a society in which the head man can't pronounce Nuclear, or particularly?

As far as the media goes, we have a lighthouse on Portland Head. Portland Head was there millions of years before the lighthouse was built, yet most TV people call it "Portland Headlight". I have written to them to remind them that it is not two words, but three. It does no good, they may as well be robots.

Subject: RE: BS: Pet peeves
From: Bobert
Date: 27 Jul 05 - 08:27 AM

Right winged SUV'ers with Bush/Cheney stickers and yellow ribbons plastered all over the back end of their gas guzzlers who think that "iot's all about them" as they drive (ha, call that driving, Bobert) as if they owned the friggin' road... And cops who let them get away with it while pullin' the teenager over in the beatup Honda fir havin' a cracked tail lense...

And cowtowin' media owners fir not havin' the guts to stand up and report the real stories *when* the real stories are occuring, like the phony WMD crap in the run-up to war that everyone with an IQ in triple digits knew it was a load of crap...

And while we are on IQ's, hey stupid people really peeve me...

And mean people peeve me...

(But, Bobert, where would America be without stupid and mean people?? Answer me that one...)

Nevermind, I'll quit now...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Pet peeves
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 27 Jul 05 - 09:02 AM

Stop signs - They did away with them in England and now use yeild signs instead.

Oh no they haven't. They are less common than 'give way' signs, but both are about, and are used almost at random. Unless you mean New England, which I don't know about....

Subject: RE: BS: Pet peeves
From: ranger1
Date: 27 Jul 05 - 09:33 AM

New day, new list...
People who run stop signs and red lights.
People who run stop signs and red lights when I'm in the crosswalk.
Plastic bags in grocery stores
Juice boxes
People using my tools and not putting them back in the toolbox when they are done with them.
Apostrophes in plural nouns. That one drives me nuts.

Subject: RE: BS: Pet peeves
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Jul 05 - 09:45 AM

My pet gets peeved when I throw him in the pool.

Subject: RE: BS: Pet peeves
From: GUEST,G
Date: 27 Jul 05 - 10:16 AM

Subject: RE: BS: Pet peeves
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Jul 05 - 10:29 AM

Point well taken, Bill D. While I think Kendalls' concept for this thread is good, I should have stayed away as I realize I don't have a
"pet peeve". I stay away from any irritants when possible and ignore the SUVs.I did hand/arm strengtening excersises so that opening the 'bags' is no longer a problem.
I will, however, reserve comment on people who use cell phones while driving.

Subject: RE: BS: Pet peeves
From: GUEST,G
Date: 27 Jul 05 - 10:30 AM

10:29 post from Guest,G.

Subject: RE: BS: Pet peeves
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 27 Jul 05 - 11:30 AM

Somebody mentioned killing fleas with alcohol. Hot water works very well, and no smell, no danger of damage to finishes.

I use a product called Front Line on my kitties, and I haven't seen a flea in years. I don't have to use it as often as they suggest, either. My cats are indoor cats.

My pet peeve - pedestrians who balance on the very edge of the curb, apparently waiting for the chance to tip over into the side of a passing car.

I want to ask them, "Does that last 12-inches of progess mean That Much?"

Subject: RE: BS: Pet peeves
From: kendall
Date: 27 Jul 05 - 01:22 PM

How about those idiots who pass you then turn off at the next exit only a few yards away?

Subject: RE: BS: Pet peeves
From: Ebbie
Date: 27 Jul 05 - 01:26 PM

"I had a pet peeve once, but it died." Jenny O

I think that would be 'pet peef', Jenny O. Example: "beef." "beeves." See?

Subject: RE: BS: Pet peeves
From: pdq
Date: 27 Jul 05 - 01:33 PM

Folkies who can't keep their politics out of their folk music.