So what are your pet peeves?

[BadGeometry]

What are the little things that for whatever reason really drive you up the wall?

For one thing, I hate when people refer to hard disk space as memory. It is not memory. Memory is RAM. It even has memory in the acronym: Random Access Memory.

It bothers me when people push an elevator button that has clearly already been pushed (I make an exception to old elevators that don't have lit up buttons, though.)


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If this thread has already been done, I apologize.

[Mon Chat]

Milk in coffee.

Instant coffee.

Tea.

[Kaffinated]

Spamers.... more importantly the ones that spam here. kill it with fire.

[B u r l]

People chewing with their mouths open. The sound drives me nuts, especially if it's chewing gum. People slurping their drink. Little kids. People who think Macs are the best thing in the world. Actually I'll stop here, I have loads

[Mon Chat]

oh no! (i love my mac!)

[B u r l]

I'll make an exception for you! :D But really, it's not like that. It's just the people who act like you're not a real art student if you don't have one.

[Crane]

People who push the button on crossing lights when its already been pushed!
people who chew gum in that really arrogant way.
chavs on mopeds.
not having my wrists covered by something.

[Straight Edge Ryan]

People who ride their bikes in the middle of the street with an empty sidewalk on either side

People that keep sending porn profiles over myspace, and the idiots who don't realise they're not real and hit on them anyway

People that say that an entire style of music sucks (come on there's bound to be at least 1 band in just about any genre that you like)

[Ilaekae]

People who insist on posting in threads that deal with complex issues before they read the thread.

[kennygeeze]

Being asked for submit artwork files in obscure formats that I don't own the programs for (example: Corel Draw)

The college drop out who continues to lecture me about how I need an education and pushing the course selection book into my lap (this a few days after I completed my degree)

[Kagemusha22]

Chavs "sharing" their musical taste (Hardcore Dance) with the world.

That meaning them putting their Mobile Phone volumes to the max, in a public place and playing 'music' with tons of beats (that seem to have no rythmn), cheesy melodies (if any) and squeaky, high-pitched, chipmunk voices.

[ArtZealot]

People who get angry over stupid, meaningless, pointless shit, just to exercise their hate muscle.

[S.C. Watson]

Random songs on the radio that not only catch the way I am feeling right then, but amplify it. I hate that. Especially when I'm not in a good mood, like today.

[Alex Chow]

People who believe artists have to have a certain "look".

[B u r l]

People who get angry over stupid, meaningless, pointless shit, just to exercise their hate muscle.


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[Psychotime]

People who believe artists have to have a certain "look".

Seconded.

[Hexokinase]

People who pronounce Hyundai as Hunday...

[apple hooks]

People who aren't artists and constantly criticize my work while I'm sketching. I always have to explain that sketches don't equal finished pieces and that I'm trying to study anatomy and gestures. Then five minutes later when they say "Oh, it looks good now, heh," and I'm like "Well yeah, you were criticizing as soon as I started drawing."
Grrr...people...

Oh, and today I even called someone out on it. I was shading a sphere, and I can't draw a perfect circle, but it was fine, and this kid next to me in 3D Design says, "That doesn't look like a perfect circle, the shading is-" and I cut him off with a "Dude, shut up already." Everyone was like "OOOOOOOHHHHHHH!"

[Costau D]

oh snap!

[Alex Chow]

Oh, and today I even called someone out on it. I was shading a sphere, and I can't draw a perfect circle, but it was fine, and this kid next to me in 3D Design says, "That doesn't look like a perfect circle, the shading is-" and I cut him off with a "Dude, shut up already." Everyone was like "OOOOOOOHHHHHHH!"

Oh no you di-dn't!

EDIT: In fear of being off-topic, here's another one very related. I do not like it when people try to one-up me in anything, especially when I'm drawing in public. We are not in a gold medal wrestling match, people. I'm just enjoying my time.

[ArtZealot]

The way i'm easily distracted drives me up the walls. If i could improve at anything i'd learn to focus better.

[Sundance]

Clients that don't pay on time

Windows Vista

Chest thumping speeches made to "inspire the base"

No mandatory "Fact Check" transcript issued to accompany said chest thumping speeches made to "inspire the base"

The death of 3CH as a weekly challenge

[chriskot]

-Several things mentioned above.

-When the internet is wrong. Far too common.

-Better artists than me who constantly feel the need to talk about how much they suck.

[Carnifex]

People who insist on posting in threads that deal with complex issues before they read the thread.

or people who don't read at all before posting.
or think.

Chavs "sharing" their musical taste (Hardcore Dance) with the world.

That meaning them putting their Mobile Phone volumes to the max, in a public place and playing 'music' with tons of beats (that seem to have no rythmn), cheesy melodies (if any) and squeaky, high-pitched, chipmunk voices.

People who get angry over stupid, meaningless, pointless shit, just to exercise their hate muscle.

esp. people who have agression troubles and want to break into fights for no damn reason at all.


people who misquote movies. sorry,but my skin starts crawling and i actively have to repress the urge to correct them. :D
things that get hyped way too much,esp. in music. i always get highly critical those.

[Lex.W]

Mimes.

[Meli Hitchcock]

- People who snort their sinuses, hack it back up, then spit it out. It makes you look like a pig, stop it.

- Heelies. I want to burn all of those shoes.

People who believe artists have to have a certain "look".

Thirded.

[B u r l]

I'd forth that artist look comment. I remember growing a beard and a friend said "oh cool, you look like an artist with that", so I shaved it off.

[Dave_]

Ppl that never know when just to shut the fuck up, like my mom.

[N D Hill]

teen angst

[Dilated]

people who love movies like batman and iron man and then when they see someone with a comic book they automatically think what a geek

[Mon Chat]

comic book geeks... on an unrelated note, anyone seen batman? i thought it was way better than iron man.

[Zombunny27]

People that belittle your view with "Oh you''ll change your mind."

Strangers that feel the need to verbally judge everyone, like they're doing you a favor.

Discrimination against left turns, I've got the Jersey pride but come on!

Strangers/acquaintences that insult the amount of time you invest into art as if you have no life, then requesting free art from you.

[TASmith]

"Then five minutes later when they say "Oh, it looks good now, heh," and I'm like "Well yeah, you were criticizing as soon as I started drawing."

That's when you tell them, "Never show a fool a job half done."

[Trefle]

People who insist on posting in threads that deal with complex issues before they read the thread.
seconded. Although I can't say I'm totally free from it...Here's hoping I could be freed totally from this.

Ppl that never know when just to shut the fuck up, like my mom.
another seconded.

Another pet peeves of mine...
When people using wrong words for something, even when stretching it as far as possible (the farther the stretching, the greater the anger)
old-fashioned people who doesn't want to see that there are other people with different views as theirs and not accepting any position except the right one

[Sundance]

People who insist on posting in threads that deal with complex issues before they read the thread.

:ilaekae: People who insist on posting threads that deal with complex issues.

:hugsmile:

[m@.]

For one thing, I hate when people refer to hard disk space as memory. It is not memory. Memory is RAM. It even has memory in the acronym: Random Access Memory.

It bothers me when people push an elevator button that has clearly already been pushed (I make an exception to old elevators that don't have lit up buttons, though.)

Heh, I do both!

[VulgarDragon]

Fat people wearing clothes that are too small so you can see their bellies hanging out or their butts when they bend over. :moon:

[Smashed_Pumpkin]

-When my beard's not long enough to tug or short enough to bristle. (Bristle is a good word)

-Any significant event with a definite end, meeting that end before I am able to perform an action decided at the time. (Like the toilet finishing it's flush before I'm done washing my hands!!)

-Honey between my fingers, or on the inside of my elbow, or on my neck....brrr!!

-Sleep, yet knowing it's good for me.

-Violent people (I suppose that's a given but it's important to me)

[Interceptor]

-When people never, EVER answer thier cellhpones.
-And when people call or text me to get together, and don't reply when I try to ask them when and where.

[BANNED_For_POOPY_PANTS]

:ilaekae: People who insist on posting threads that deal with complex issues.

:hugsmile:

People that are either too self-centered or too afraid to deal with problems outside their comfort zones.

[Craig D]

People that are either too self-centered or too afraid to deal with problems outside their comfort zones.

People that don't know a joke when they see it

[Nrx]

When people ask you if you want to do something then they make you decide what, grr, and i dont mean just ask i mean a unrelenting barrage of its up to you dude.

[BANNED_For_POOPY_PANTS]

People that don't know a joke when they see it

1. People who take shit like this seriously.

2. People who need to get laid and take it out on others.

[MM Howard]

Fat people wearing clothes that are too small so you can see their bellies hanging out or their butts when they bend over. :moon:

You mean like this:

I hate it with a passion that burns life the fires of HELL!
Did anybody get blinded?

[alesoun]

Trolls, and people who are offensive for no reason. (C'mon, like that takes talent?)

And people who blow their nose with their fingers. Footballers and miners do it. I was brought up in a mining town, and it still grosses me out! Eeeeewww!

[jadefoodog]

People who ride their bikes in the middle of the street with an empty sidewalk on either side

People that keep sending porn profiles over myspace, and the idiots who don't realise they're not real and hit on them anyway

People that say that an entire style of music sucks (come on there's bound to be at least 1 band in just about any genre that you like)


its not legal to ride on the sidewalks in most states

[mimee]

My family and other people constantly trying to brainwash me so that I will study medicine or engineering after high school instead of art because they believe I will end up as a starving artist on the street. What's worse is that they say that they are supporting my choice when they are obviously not.

Oh, they can't even hide the fact that they're doing the complete opposite.


EDIT:
Also, my mom getting mad at me for listening to metal. :<
She says I'm not acting like a girl and that I should listen to -softer- songs. Ack.

[VulgarDragon]

its not legal to ride on the sidewalks in most states

Wonder if the police really care. If I rode bike, I would use the sidewalk...better chance a ticket than getting hit by some maniac on the road.

Another pet peeves of mine are that I can't stand it if someone repeats the same thing over and over...drives me nuts. Or talk too much and never get straight to the point.

[Minja]

To be totally honest, I don't have many. One though, is people not knowing how to spell or use proper grammar. Now I can forgive an odd spelling mistake or missed comma, hell, I'm guilty of that all the time. It's when people use YOUR instead of YOU'RE that really gets to me. Yeah.

[Suzanne]

Meetings where everyone is expected to clap.

Basically any situation that anyone is expected to clap now that I think about it.

[TASmith]

I get annoyed when my 15 year old nephew tells me I shouldn't follow politics or news, like he somehow knows more about how it works than I do, considering he's never followed it and's just spouting what his dad told him.

I also can't stand church. I don't want to step on anyone's toes here, but to me it's the most tired, over-drawn theatrical production in history. It's better for me in a foreign country where I don't understand the words.

[mehran]

people who think that being-real makes more sense than being-caring

[Saturns Gate]

Boy Racers...the ones that think it necessary to rev there engines when I try to watch a movie or walk past there car.

[Vhan Juju]

-Someone eating funyuns closer to me than three feet away.

[cotron]

The internet!

[Jason Rainville]

- insincerity, especially with regards to public speeches or addresses or presentations;

I'm a pretty good public speaker, and I find that it's best to know your talking points but don't completely spell out what you're going to say. By really knowing what you're talking about and being confident, you can simply talk to the audience about something in a natural, flowing yet structured way. I just about laughed and then cried when the president of the college gave her plastic, read word-for-word speech at graduation only to end it with the most insincere, shit eating grin and say in such an over-the-top way, "congratulations everyone!" as if she was in some sort of terrible PSA from the 90s.

- You don't hunt or fish, so in this small town you're a worthless basement dweller with no life and no hope of becoming anything. Kill some animals and waste time and gas driving around on your quad for 5 hours, then you'll be somebody :)

- "to me, since you work realistically and digitally, it's likely you painted over everything you sent into the art show."

- Here's $20, I'd like a professional logo for my retail store. No shit, either. (http://forum.deviantart.com/jobs/offers/1164799/)

- Someone who is terrible at drawing, has no evidence of finished work etc is much more employable than you because they have a STYLE (which is essentially a bastardization of anime)

[Costau D]

Assholes, and people who feel the need to have an opinion about errverythang!

[nate01776]

When Im taking a shower and the curtain keeps sticking to my back... i bought one with magnets but its useless!!!

[Ilaekae]

The ones with magnets keep sticking to my bald spot...

[Costau D]

I knew it. Ilaekae's a damn robot! We're dead.

[TASmith]

Nate, Slovak baths don't have curtains. Everyone just sits in the tub, with one of those detachable shower heads. You have to warm the surface so it doesn't freeze your back, especially in winter.

[Straight Edge Ryan]

People that make out or do sexually explicit things in public. I don't know why but it really annoys me. I mean it's not like they can't control themselves

[Toxdel]

well right now its constantly seeing couples walking around campus holding hands and smiling at each other in loving embrace... This lonely soul is tired of being single. :P

[woodbert]

Finger Quotes

Any ass hole in a a hat that says "Those who can do.. Those who can't teach"

[TheDirtSyndicate]

i had a cat once that i named "peeve"
he was stupid.

my biggest pet peeve would probably be stupidity.

[Toxdel]

naming your pet "peeve" is kind of stupid :P

[TASmith]

"well right now its constantly seeing couples walking around campus holding hands and smiling at each other in loving embrace... This lonely soul is tired of being single."

"Why is it when you're single, all you see are couples, but then when you're part of a couple, all you see are hookers?" - Jim Gaffigan.

[Moai]

Seeing recyclable materials in the trash.
If the trash can is next to a recycle bin, yet there are still perfectly recyclable items in the trash, then I really want to kill someone.

[TASmith]

"If the trash can is next to a recycle bin,"

Yeah, I don't understand why more places don't have recycling bins right next to the trash. I remember going to Denmark and every waste basket in Copenhagen had three or four choices: paper, plastic, aluminum, and trash. I don't think it'd be that hard for every city/country to start doing the same thing. When you're only option is trash or the ground, that's bad. I actually have plastic wrappings in my backpack I've been meaning to take home and add to recycling.

[Costau D]

i had a cat once that i named "peeve"
he was stupid.

my biggest pet peeve would probably be stupidity.

The average person thinks the average person is stupid.

[Parka81]

Pet peeve?

I hit keyboard shortcuts faster than my office computer can respond. Then I'll go "argh" as I clench my fist.

[Demo]

People who unplug the vaccume insted of pushing the off button....even though i dont really vaccume

Showing people my sketch books because most of the pages are filled with 15sec gesture drawings or stupid doodles and then try to explain why every thing looks like crap and unfinished

arrogant young artist, anima or what ever you calll it if you can actully draw and then play around with it just for fun then no ploblem im all for that, but if ur just emo and copy a pic you find on deviant art or off the internet and say yah im jona be an artist and do this as a living well good for you i hope you can find a person to rip off for the rest of your life. sorry blowing steam

[sheetghost]

*Gift cards

*Shredded lettuce

*Crappy 'How to Draw' books that I could have re-drawn ten times better at age five. Yes Mr. Heart, I'm looking at you.

[Ilaekae]

"I knew it. Ilaekae's a damn robot! We're dead." Cosmo Chimp

Who knew the lead in my head was magnetic... :P

[kev ferrara]

Pet Peeves:

People who think they aren't in an information bubble. People who believe what they read unconditionally. An online education. That most art books are written to get mothers to buy them for their kids, even the ones we think of as classics. Anti-intellectualism. Pseudo-intellectualism. Ideology. Politics. Manifestos by lunatics. Artist's Statements that contain the words "society" "temporeality" "threshold" or Dialectic". Postmodernism. Evangelicals, especially ones who wear fancy perfumes and expensive watches and wheedle money from old people. Marxists who sit around all day reading marxist books and complaining about successful people. People who still think the Rosenbergs were innocent. Bindings that break as soon as you open the book. Lazy fat children and their parents. Most art instructors. Most art critics, especially modernist types. Aesthetes who call any realistic drawing "merely academic" or "merely illustration." Having to press 1 to hear some message in English. 21 year olds full of hate who play World of Warcraft all day long and wonder why they don't have a life. Deliberately loud vehicles. Unwarranted hype. Anybody who puts down Frank Lloyd Wright, or any other artist, because "he's too popular".

[TASmith]

"An online education" - except when it's ConceptArt.org ;)

[Costau D]

Glitter and sparkles...

So tacky, and creepy.

[Sundance]

People that think that a person who has picked a "side" or a "party" isn't educated on the issues and buys into everything that their "side" or "party" says/issues.

It is possible to see things as they are and come to a conclusion as to which of two options will provide the best outcome.