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Might be an interesting addition to this section to see the little things that peeve us all off
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Pretty common one: I hate being cutoff by drivers who spot half a car gap in traffic and wave at you like you left it for them to merge into....
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Foo ball,
loud morons
cheap wine
P plate drivers who want to show me how it's done in the wet
bad chinese food
talk back radio
rock music
mobile phone users in restaurants
god botherers who try to convert me on my day off
tin rattlers at intersections
too many damned charities (if I gave a dollar to each one I'd be broke)
cellar door prices at wineries
bank charges et al.................
being oblivious to gripes as I don't visit sites
- Waiting behind people paying by credit cards when I have the right money.
- Banks
- Parents who refuse to believe their children are not perfect
- Treading in dog sh** when I don't own a dog
- MacDonalds and all their packaging I pick up out of my garden.
- Banks
- Commercial television
- Call centres
- Being put on hold and having to listen to a whole bunch of ads for the company you are waiting to deal with. This is like spitting on your shoe before you kick some one in the head.
- Banks
- Junk mail
Bad Manners.
Selfish people.
Know-alls.
Sycophants.
Not be able to get online.
Petrol Prices.
Waiting for slogan competitions to finish..hehehe.
Online Extortionists.
Durability of Plastic..?
Sneaky Radars
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Johnno
Fries with that order
Have a nice day
ZEE
Any other Americanism that creeps in and takes over the language
People who catch bigger fish than me!
wrong cuts
Orange Oil
Ozito
Bunnings
taiwanese screws that break off
Companies that have no product knowledge.
Bunnings being called a trade store.
Try getting a thousand Tek screws bulk.
Salesmen that have even less product knowledge than the companies they work for.
Like:
Company reps that know how to take no for an answer and aren't full of bull.
Companies that know their products and offer great service.
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Ian () Robertson
"We do good turns every day"
people who whinge too much http://ubb.ubeaut.com.au/ubb/rolleyes.gif
getting up early for golf and then having an ordinary round
petrol & lpg prices
politicians
kids on scooters who act like you are invading THEIR space when trying to drive down the road
the early shift at work
having my shed invaded while trying to work on something (women just dont understand)
-Caravan Drivers on the HWY!
-McDonalds.
-Bikeriders who think they have the right to ride in groups of three or four abreast on the road.
-Bourbon ( everyone should only drink Bundy Rum http://ubb.ubeaut.com.au/ubb/biggrin.gif )
-People being trained in Driving Instructors cars who insist on practicing 3-point turns in a narrow Street where I have to drive down everyday! grrrrr http://ubb.ubeaut.com.au/ubb/mad.gif
-People who own a mobile phone who have no reason to own one except to try and be popular.
-Loud Restaurants
-Telemarketers who constantly ring at awkward times ( day & night ) trying to sell something usless, stressing that they only want to take one mintue of your time when it takes 10 minutes to explain what there selling.
-Faxmarketers that waste my fax paper trying to sell somthing stupid. Then send the same fax 2 or three times for impact.
-Charities raising money for disabled groups coming into a workplace & using disabled people to ask for money. Thats just wrong I reakon.
-Fuel Prices
-paying by credit card ( But I LOVE the frequent flyer points!!! )
-Being put on hold for over 5secs
-spam emails
-email virus hoaxs
-people who always believe there right, even when they have been proven there wrong.
-people who have apprantly been everywhere and done everything & therfor skilled in everything, but yet shows no evidence to back these claims up & usually contradict themselfs, especially when they try and tell me how to do my job.
-get rich quick schemes
-people who believe they know how to do the job better than you when they just contracted you to do it for them.
-people who want something down for nothing, but expect a million dollar job on completion
-cars driving at 75-85km/h on the HWY when they are capable of being driven at over 200km/h, so why can't they travel at least at 100km/h?
-sunday drivers
-morons who drive through giveway signs then hit into my ute and cause me to have a bad back!
-People who don't look for motobikes when changing lanes, turning etc.
-talk of stronger gun restrictions.
-backyarders.
-Summer.
-noisey people at the cinema.
-having to drive so far to go to the WWW Shows.
-Price of Domestic flights from the country
-Cats.
-smokers who give no consideration for anyone else.
-paying big dollars to go on a chartered fishing trip only to catch fish no bigger than the bait your using.
-Bunnings that opens in town today, especially when a small community like this already has over 4 large hardware stores and countless small stores that will be majorly affected.
-Doctors who prescribed pills first before actually trying to diagnose a problem to be treated.
-arrogant medical staff who obviously believe they are above helping sick people, which they choose as a career.
-Dentistry
-university trained people that can't get a job, yet still act like there above everyone else.
-Not being able to buy a lot of stuff I need locally.
-mailorder.
-people not replying to emails.
-Brussel Sprouts.
-Broad Beans.
-Sausages.
-home improvment shows on TV
-Cost of placing a small add in the local paper.
-when a damn good idea dosn't work.
-machinery breakdowns.
-people who insist on talking to me when I first wake up.
-The party the guys across the road had on Friday night, that didn't stop until 5.00am grrrr!
-The cars the same guys have ( who happen to be mechanics! ) that don't have seem to have exhuasts.
-People who tell me they tried ringing me, when they didn't. With caller ID and an answering machine, its hard not to know if someone has called.
-People who don't return phone calls or faxes.
-Computors and there lil problems that constantly appear.
-Do-gooder tree huggers.
-Having to cook a feed after a hard days work.
Hell I could go on forever.... But trust me, I am not a disgruntled person!!! Its True http://ubb.ubeaut.com.au/ubb/wink.gif
I too will be back.......
Oh one more....
-Waiting for slogan competitions to finish..hehehe had to get that dig in.... http://ubb.ubeaut.com.au/ubb/biggrin.gif
Shane, call me, I can help, only $100.00 an hour http://ubb.ubeaut.com.au/ubb/biggrin.gif
and...............
Bank fees
GST
Government morons who put me on hold ad infinitum
Bank fees
Car insurance premiums
People who tell me I am lucky despite I have worked bloody hard for what I have
Unemployed who choose not to work and expect me to support them
Greenies (not to be confused with conservationists)
price of timber
ads on pay TV
automatic cameras
slow paying government departments who want the work done yesterday
dentists (like Shane, I hate them and break out in a cold sweat when I have to go)
injections
druggies
morons who ding my caR WITH SHOPPING TROLLEYS IN CAR PARKS
spam....both varieties
porridge....my kids love it ughhhh.
fornicating felines under my bedroom window at 3.00am
ill tempered horses
arrogant riders
smart door to door salesmen
petrol prices anywhere in Australia
LPG prices anywhere at the moment
S11
price of Grange Hermitage
SA Beer (sorry Stoppers)
leeches
tattslotto winners...why can't it be me?
American Cars
Pommy cars
tyre prices for my cruiser
fuel economy on my cruiser
car salesmen
Carbatec..everytime I go there I open my wallet
olives
anchovies
bland food
tchaikovski and korsikov
autumn and cleaning the bloody pool
summer and no one else cleans the bloody pool
Victoria's attitude to trout fishermen, minimal stocking programme
REx Hunt
All his mates
self basting public officials
alan jones
derryn hinch
junk mail
lawnmowers at 7.00am
price of ZIP discs
sociology students
sociology graduates
driving kids to school when I could be sleeping
the need to pick up kids from school because of the deviants out there
do gooders attitude towards villains
Hyudai Excels and the P plate drivers who ding my cruiser (more than once)
& Neil '3' personal attacks in there http://ubb.ubeaut.com.au/ubb/biggrin.gif
[This message has been edited by Iain (edited 18 June 2001).]
hmmmm maybe i should have asked what you people DO like, might have been shorter....
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people ringing me asking for help to problems (just because i work on a helpdesk..)
typing a sentence to realise all the R's havent worked, stupid keyboard...
Whingeing-Moaning-Griping Bloody Woodies!!
What peeves me off?
Bloody whingers with nothing better to do with their time than to prattle on ad infinitum about what peeves them off!
Oh, and government departments who insist on having non English speaking or comprehending, idiots answering their phones. (It's a ploy, I know. But what an annoying one.)
Non English speaking or comprehending, idiots on government phones who hang up on you when you politely call them a bloody moron and scream at them to get some buggar to the phone who bloody well speaks English. BUSTARDS Grrrr http://ubb.ubeaut.com.au/ubb/mad.gif
I had a couple more but couldn't weed out the better ones from the 12,00 others I had so I will stop here. For now.
Oops. Smart arses who insist on correcting your spelling. Who the hell cares how it's spellted so long as it gets the point acrozz. http://ubb.ubeaut.com.au/ubb/biggrin.gif
Oh yeah. Last one I promise.
People who complain about a personal attack and then personally attack someone themself. Bloody hypocrites. http://ubb.ubeaut.com.au/ubb/mad.gif
People who think they are better than everyone else.
DonN
Neil, only doctors can be hypocrites, after all didn't they take the Hypocritic Oath?
http://ubb.ubeaut.com.au/ubb/biggrin.gif http://ubb.ubeaut.com.au/ubb/biggrin.gif , or maybe that was journalists..Hipocrates Hypocrites, oh hell, it's one of them.
And speling are inportant, as are yours gramer.
Wingers
Ov corse gramer is importent. With owt her you woodn't be hear.
Regards to Mr Shane Watons. You corl yooself a moderatah? 'Tis yoo hoo shood be moderated. Choice topic tho'
MY peeve? uuummmm......
- Not being able to rememeber what my peeve is.
I thought a peeve was something male bow-wows had twixt their hinds legs.
And a poove? Well, I can't even imagine....
LOL Oh dear. http://ubb.ubeaut.com.au/ubb/tongue.gif http://ubb.ubeaut.com.au/ubb/confused.gif
Peeve no2 Not knowing when to finish.
Gotta guy, Gos! Keep that finger one inch further west from where it should not have been.