Best Peeves

It just irritates me when I'm sitting around, enjoying all the beautiful assets of the internet, when suddenly, I get the text message: "HeY Tim!!@! Yous good at them computerboxes right? I needs me a new computerbox with hitec Crysis actions!!! Build me one for free!"

Posted by tjenkins on May 19, 2008 and it now has 3 comments. (Log in to vote on this Peeve)

Why, in this modern, lazy world, do people insist on hitting an extra key every time they write a plural, even though it's wrong? I'd think they'd be glad to avoid the extra keystroke, if only they knew it was unnecessary. I expect such people fall into two camps: those who think it's actually the right thing to do ("every word that ends in 's' needs an apostrophe") and those who don't know which way to go and simply err on the side of extra punctuation ("even if it's not right, it certainly can't be wrong"). I don't even care which camp you're in. Join the third camp, with those of us who actually know the right way to do it.

I won't even get into the whole "it's" vs. "its" thing.

Posted by Gulopine on May 27, 2008 and it now has 6 comments. (Log in to vote on this Peeve)

Seriously, get off my ass; if you want to get *that* friendly, I'm going to need dinner and a movie first. I drive the speed limit, because I don't feel like dying, and no matter how good a driver you think you are, you're just begging to get killed when I have to slam on the brakes because some kid just fell out of the car ahead of me.

Posted by Winawer on May 27, 2008 and it now has 1 comment. (Log in to vote on this Peeve)

Is there anything more helpful than,

Gamer_In_Distress: "Guys, whenever I put a disc in my Xbox360 it says 'unplayable disc'. I'm really frustrated with this because I just bought like 4 new games and I really wanna play them. Does anyone know what I should do?"

PS3lover: "Pack it up and throw it away cuz its gonna suck more later! cuz xbox SUX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! go ps3!!!!"

Posted by TheJesus on May 21, 2008 and it now has 7 comments. (Log in to vote on this Peeve)

It has one purpose and it is specifically designed to be convenient and easy to use.

Just do it. It's not hard.

Posted by TheJesus on May 20, 2008 and it now has 3 comments. (Log in to vote on this Peeve)

Why is it that social network owners seem to think it's a good idea to automatically add themselves to the friends of all new users? I don't know you, I certainly haven't had a chance to like you. I don't even know if I like your site, I just signed up to see if it's worth anything. When I see your name on my friends list, I get an answer: probably not.

Posted by Gulopine on May 22, 2008 and it now has 10 comments. (Log in to vote on this Peeve)

I wish people could write legal documents in clear, understandable, non-verbose english! Instead, they make it almost impossible to understand. With more and more documents of a legal nature, it's almost as if we all need to go to law school to be able to understand things in today's society. I want this trend to stop, immediately, because every time I read a new legal document that's heavy in Legalese, it just peeves me off.

Posted by ericflo on May 24, 2008 and it now has 2 comments. (Log in to vote on this Peeve)

This is my biggest pet peeve ever. If I step in water, milk, grease, or basically any liquid while I have socks on, then I go crazy. And you wouldn't like me when I'm crazy. Seriously, there's no cure for this one: you either ditch the socks and get new ones, or put your moist feet in your shoes and wear it around, getting grosser and smellier than ever by the end of the day. UGH!!!

Posted by ericflo on May 18, 2008 and it now has 1 comment. (Log in to vote on this Peeve)

No we're not!! I don't know who started this rumor, but I've been hearing it more and more lately, that's NOT true!

Posted by Beshr on May 28, 2008 and it now has 3 comments. (Log in to vote on this Peeve)

I hate road detours! Confusion, delay, traffic - aargh!

Posted by Anneflo on May 18, 2008 and it now has 0 comments. (Log in to vote on this Peeve)