Pet Peeves XII
February 3rd, 2010 - A Million Peeves - 19 Comments »Pre-Dice-Roll Rituals
If I have to spend one more second watching you blow on the dice or shake them vigorously for eight seconds prior to your roll, I might just stab myself with this mini-pencil I’m using to keep score. I’m not sure which is more absurd – the ritual itself, or the fact that you actually believe it works.
Pennies
If someone offered me “a penny for my thoughts”, I would most certainly decline. Besides the fact that I think my thoughts are worth more than that (somewhere in the dime range), offering me a penny is like offering me an empty Arby’s cup – you’re essentially asking me to throw away your trash.
The Huncher
This occurs when someone has to walk between you and something you’re watching. It started as an innocent bend-over to prevent any obstruction to your line of sight, but now it’s just gotten out of hand. Even if there is a 100% chance he will be in your way, he’ll still bend over and shuffle past you. Is this an easier alternative to “Excuse me”?
Hockey Highlights
To me, the worst part of SportsCenter has always been the hockey segment. I honestly don’t think I’d notice if they played the same highlight seven consecutive times, passing it off as different games. The only things more irritating than these initial highlights are the in-depth Barry Melrose reports and the times a hockey highlight gets the #1 spot on Top Plays.
Hazards in the Rain
You know what enables me to see you in the rain? Your headlights, tail lights, and 2000 lb. car. So, unless someone’s getting a vasectomy in the back seat or you’re parking in the fire lane while returning a DVD to Redbox, keep your hands off the hazards button.
Looking at the above list, I bet it’s hard to be friends with me.
What about you? Any peeves we need to know about?
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Have you ever been vacuuming out your car, and you find some pennies hidden somewhere, and you just suck them up with all the other dirt? I have. Pennies are not worth the space they take up.
This is so shallow – it bothers me to watch someone copy and paste something by going to their toolbar. I just wonder why no one has informed them of ctrl-c/ctrl-v? Maybe they need better friends.
I totally did the 'Huncher' at my sorority chapter two nights ago… I realized it was useless and that the 180 girls were definitely no longer focused on the officer speaking so I evolved like the cave man and proceeded to trip when I was almost there-resulting in a burst of laughter confirming my previous realization. It's no use any more!! the Hunch does nothing!
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How lazy are we really
Sorry, I do that
This blog is one of my must reads and I get excited when I see the (1) next to your blog in my Google Reader. However, I am going to have to thoroughly disagree with the hockey highlights. Hockey is clearly the greatest sport on earth, but since you live in Atlanta where I swear sometimes they have more empty seats than filled ones, I can forgive you for not being a fan. I do recommend you go to a game just once before you write it off forever.
I hate the NBA so if you like that in any way, were even.
Celebrities in general and why in the world anyone would ever give a rip. Stop buying US magazine and read a freaking book that's not Twilight.
Stupid people who ask in email why there isn’t an airport closer to the DR/Haitian border (I work for a non profit that is in diaster relief). Really? You’re actually asking this?!?! I’m sure it was a conspiracy designed by the person responsible for the earthquake. Geez people.
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Hockey highlights #1 disgust me! You go from a great dunk, great catch in the outfield, or skull crushing hit in football to guys skating holding their sticks! We don't know if it was a good highlight or not. We just see them raise their arms and hug each other.
adding "i" before common or new technological items. for example: "yeah, come on in. have a seat on my iCouch. can i get you an iDrink?" or, "what time is it? let me look at my iWatch….2:15." and, "i'll send you an email from my iBlackberry. you should get it in about 30 iMinutes."
People who pretend to be totally ignorant of how a camera works when you ask them to take a picture of you and your friends. "Do I push here?"
Also, people who tell me how to operate their point-and-shoot camera when they ask me to take their picture. "Oh that's crazy, when did they start putting the button on the top?"
Oh, and when you're at a fast food restaurant and you're the only person in line and the person behind the counter shouts, "Can I help the next person in line?" or "Can I help the next guest?" while staring right at you. Why not just say "Can I help YOU"…in a normal tone of voice
I hate hockey highlights, except for
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Smblocw-bE
or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16881xpFxOI
I'm with you on the dice rolling. I LOVE craps, but it's so frustrating to watch a drunk guy flip over each die until they're double sixes, and then line them up in boxcar formation, wind them around his chips once or twice, and then seven out without hitting a point.
If you're going to lose, just get it over with quickly!
-Steve
When poets or songwriters rhyme "love" and "above." UGH! SO overdone! Makes me want to puke.
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i actually LOVE the hockey segments and it’s all the basketball stuff that i can’t stand. you obviously have never seen an NHL game live because it’s quite possibly the best sport experience around.
what is with all the excitement with a dunk anyway? if i were 6′9″ i’d imagine i could dunk without much of a problem too. it’s kinda like a hockey player skating right in front of an open net and taking a slapshot into the open cage. you want to impress me with a basketball dunk? put a goalie on a platform at the same level as the net and then see how aggressive guys get trying to dunk when they know they’re going to get a Sherwood in the teeth.
I get annoyed when people confuse the words "leery" or "wary", both of which meaning hesitant or uneasy, and instead say a combination of the two "weary", which we all know means to be tired. "I'm a little weary of taking his advice." No people. It's one or the other. Not both.