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Pet peeves, annoyances

Quagmire

Imaginary talking monkey
Staff member
Premium Member
People who don't hold up their end of the deals they make with you but still expect you to hold up yours. Best example I can give:

Friend of mine needed to borrow $1,200 to buy a van for his business.

I wrote him a check and the only condition I put on it was that he needed to help me move some things into storage that weekend. Maybe 2 hours of work, tops.

Now, knowing Pete the way I did I realized I would probably never see my money again and for all intents and purposes I was paying him $600 an hour to help me move a few boxes and drive less than a mile.

He never showed up. Really screwed up my plans and peed me off.

When I calmed down (a couple of days later) I realized: as big a flake as Pete was there was a good chance he hadn't even gotten to the bank to cash the check yet.

So that night I called my bank and put a stop on the check.

Sure enough he hadn't cashed the check yet.

The friendship was basically over at that point and he never let go of the idea that I had somehow done him dirty.
 

savagewind

Veteran Member
Premium Member
People who don't hold up their end of the deals they make with you but still expect you to hold up yours. Best example I can give:

Friend of mine needed to borrow $1,200 to buy a van for his business.

I wrote him a check and the only condition I put on it was that he needed to help me move some things into storage that weekend. Maybe 2 hours of work, tops.

Now, knowing Pete the way I did I realized I would probably never see my money again and for all intents and purposes I was paying him $600 an hour to help me move a few boxes and drive less than a mile.

He never showed up. Really screwed up my plans and peed me off.

When I calmed down (a couple of days later) I realized: as big a flake as Pete was there was a good chance he hadn't even gotten to the bank to cash the check yet.

So that night I called my bank and put a stop on the check.

Sure enough he hadn't cashed the check yet.

The friendship was basically over at that point and he never let go of the idea that I had somehow done him dirty.
The worst part is that he wouldn't understand that it is him and not you...not that you lost the money, not that he didn't help you but that he is blind to the facts.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
People who don't hold up their end of the deals they make with you but still expect you to hold up yours. Best example I can give:

Friend of mine needed to borrow $1,200 to buy a van for his business.

I wrote him a check and the only condition I put on it was that he needed to help me move some things into storage that weekend. Maybe 2 hours of work, tops.

Now, knowing Pete the way I did I realized I would probably never see my money again and for all intents and purposes I was paying him $600 an hour to help me move a few boxes and drive less than a mile.

He never showed up. Really screwed up my plans and peed me off.

When I calmed down (a couple of days later) I realized: as big a flake as Pete was there was a good chance he hadn't even gotten to the bank to cash the check yet.

So that night I called my bank and put a stop on the check.

Sure enough he hadn't cashed the check yet.

The friendship was basically over at that point and he never let go of the idea that I had somehow done him dirty.
For $600 an hour I'd help you move stuff,
& then give you a free Scottish foot rub.
 

RestlessSoul

Well-Known Member
I have let my hair grow. The reasons are; time, time, talking to get an appointment, The Mask, time, money when sometimes my hair is not bothering me too much...but sometimes it is. A pet peeve of mine is my hair in my face.


I kept my hair very short for about 10 years. Don’t have much left tbh. Then came lockdowns, all the stuff you mentioned - and now my thin grey hair is longer than it has been since I switched allegiance from Led Zeppelin to The Clash over 40 years ago. And I’m noticing lots of grey haired old geezers like me revisiting our youth one last time.

There’s no excuse not to get it cut now, but one of the benefits of getting old is, I really don’t care what other people think about me anymore. In the 70s hair was a statement. Now it’s just hair.
 

Heyo

Veteran Member
I won't argue with the fact that google has taken its toll, but I don't really think much emphasis was ever place on Africa in school. Perhaps that would be one of the first things to amend.
Our curriculum didn't differentiate. I had to learn the official names of 180 countries together with their capitals and locate them on a map. I managed to remember 80%+ then. I may have forgotten a good half of that and I'm not up-to-date with the things that changed since then (former soviet republics, ex-Jugoslavia) but I guess I'd get at least 50% in Africa (maybe not the capitals, but names and location).
 

Heyo

Veteran Member
Just some place for you and me to vent. I'll start.

People who live in the south ( US ), have lived here for some extended time complaining about the heat and humidity. No sheets Sherlock! It can get hot here. Move.
Everybody complains about the weather - but nobody is doing something against it.

Come to think about it ... people complaining about anything, the weather, the government, annoying people, and not doing something against it.
 

It Aint Necessarily So

Veteran Member
Premium Member
Saying, "It takes two to tango," the great false equivalencer. The sentence converts all situations into equal blame ones, whatever the circumstances, meaning that nobody is to blame or more to blame whenever uttered.

My usual answer is, "Yeah, and it takes four to square dance and one to go-go dance. Did you have any other point?"

"Thought-terminating cliché fallacy - when a commonly accepted phrase is rhetorically introduced in place of an actual argument as an attempt to end the debate. “The more things change, the more they stay the same."
 

Mock Turtle

Oh my, did I say that!
Premium Member
My pet peeve is Secular Humanists


He's like John Gray - an atheist who seems to despise all other atheists (can't be a member of THAT club), and being such feels he has to distance himself from anything he might have in common with them. :D
 
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