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Community => Recreation Commons => Topic started by: Unorthodox on February 16, 2016, 02:17:12 PM

Title: Manual Poll: Pet Peeves
Post by: Unorthodox on February 16, 2016, 02:17:12 PM

What annoys you?

(request from the allergies thread, and the fact I just spent over an hour in traffic for no good reason) 

Title: Re: Manual Poll: Pet Peeves
Post by: Unorthodox on February 17, 2016, 01:51:48 PM

"It's not a horror movie if it's not rated 'R'"

I don't even care that the movies are rated R necessarily, but that they throw stupid stuff in specifically to GET the R rating. 

Trick R Treat is my favorite example.  Realizing most of you haven't seen it, we have a PG13 movie they added 10 seconds of porno to in order to achieve the R rating. 

No, not story driven nude scene.  Literally, a guy heads to his room to watch a porno movie, which is shown on the screen. 

Films that obtain the R rating organically are generally ok, but there is a real sentiment that horror MUST be rated R.  This kneecaps the genre and ensures it has very few financial successes. 

Title: Re: Manual Poll: Pet Peeves
Post by: Buster's Uncle on February 17, 2016, 01:57:24 PM

Mr. Hitchcock didn't need an R to get under peoples' skin.

Title: Re: Manual Poll: Pet Peeves
Post by: Unorthodox on February 17, 2016, 02:13:50 PM

Hitchcock's films came in that period when the Hay's code was largely unenforced, and the MPAA had yet to be formed, though.  Hard to say what they may have been rated if there was a system in place. 

Title: Re: Manual Poll: Pet Peeves
Post by: Rusty Edge on February 20, 2016, 12:03:36 AM

For want of a better term, I'll call it Selfish Indecision.

You know, when a person in a walkway or store aisle or business entrance stops to think something over in the place where it will obstruct the maximum amount of traffic in the most directions at one time and cause the greatest inconvenience. Sometimes it's stopping your shopping cart in the middle of an intersection at the end of an aisle. Sometimes it's parking it besides the only other stopped cart in the aisle, or a shelf stocker's pile of cartons.

Sometimes it's conversing with the store employees in a doorway. Sometimes it's stopping at some sort of Y in the traffic pattern while figuring out where one wants to go. Or people walking up to the entrance to an attraction to suddenly halt and contemplate whether they want to go in it or not.  I just returned from a trip, and I've had my fill of it. 

Title: Re: Manual Poll: Pet Peeves
Post by: Buster's Uncle on February 22, 2016, 02:29:51 AM

Easy jokes on people's names - because Luke's SURELY never heard any Star Wars gags from new acquaintances, and will definitely be amused.

Hippies - I've lived among them, and found them shallow and hypocritical.

Theocons.

Half the drivers on any given road I've ever driven on - if everyone developed enough shame to be embarrassed to get in anyone else's way one second longer than they could help, the world would be a much better place; make this one The Human Race, in fact.

People who can't be bothered to work out their-there-they're, your-you're, were-where-we're, and the list goes on.

-There are more, but it'd be easier to list what in the world DOESN'T irritate me, and I'm not exaggerating much to say that.

Title: Re: Manual Poll: Pet Peeves
Post by: Rusty Edge on February 22, 2016, 06:21:00 AM

...And another thing!

Mislabeled food. Example from many years ago- "Turkey Ham". Much to my surprise, it  was not ham imported from Turkey. It wasn't even ham! It was cured turkey, so why didn't they say so? Why weren't they required to say so?

I travel and dine quite a bit. Whenever I see the words "home made", and there isn't a residence above the restaurant, I always wonder "Who's home was it made in, and when was it's last health inspection?"  Usually they mean "home style".

I saw one today when I was shopping for something else. "Uncured Turkey Bacon." Bacon means different things in the USA, Canada, Ireland and England. All of them are cuts of cured pork. So uncured turkey bacon is an oxymoron. But if they are uncured, they are still simply pork bellies, loins, and hind quarters, etc. , not bacon.

Title: Re: Manual Poll: Pet Peeves
Post by: ColdWizard on February 22, 2016, 05:12:17 PM

Rubberneckers and people that use the left lane as the go whatever ridiculously slow speed you feel like lane.

Title: Re: Manual Poll: Pet Peeves
Post by: Unorthodox on February 22, 2016, 05:48:36 PM

Quote from: Rusty Edge on February 22, 2016, 06:21:00 AM

I travel and dine quite a bit. Whenever I see the words "home made", and there isn't a residence above the restaurant, I always wonder "Who's home was it made in, and when was it's last health inspection?"  Usually they mean "home style".

Homemade:  made in the home, on the premises, or by one's own efforts. 

Just means it's not some precooked crap, which you might be shocked how many restaurants are just reheating your food for you. 

Title: Re: Manual Poll: Pet Peeves
Post by: Rusty Edge on February 22, 2016, 06:06:08 PM

Quote from: Unorthodox on February 22, 2016, 05:48:36 PM

Just means it's not some precooked crap, which you might be shocked how many restaurants are just reheating your food for you.

Uh, excellent point. Now that I think about it...