Pet Peeves

I'm feeling the need to vent a bit of stupid trivial shite. You all get to real it, because I like you that much, and because you were silly enough to open a thread called "Pet Peeves".

1. Stick pans. These are the opposite of non-stick pans. These are pans that even butter and olive oil to stick to. I seem to collect them.

2. Volunteer Forum Monitors. Do you realize you're the person standing in the school hallway warning students that you'll report them, and not to run too fast, before they even get to the official hall monitor? Yes, you are that geek. Not an official geek, a wanna-be tattle-tale geek.

3. People who don't know the difference between good and bad attention. If you don't know what I mean, or if you feel offended right this moment, you're one of them, and I'm very sorry that mommy and daddy never paid enough attention to you. I'm more sorry that the rest of us have to suffer for your complete lack of self-worth.

4. People who think that money (earned or married into) means taste, class, personality or any validation for continued existance. I offer one example that none of that is true... Anna Nicole Smith, Pre and Post Trim Spa, baby.

5. Techno music. Just my opinion, but if I want to play Zelda 24/7, I will. No need to play me the soundtrack at every club. Thanks anyway. If you absolutely must bless me with this synth crap, at least stretch it out and parse it with other stuff. I wouldn't force you to listen to 5 Joy Division CDs in a row.

6. Windows.

7. Been-There-Done-Thaters. If you have lag, they have constant crashing. If you have the flu, they have 14 types of cancer. Okay, you're more experienced and far more miserable than I am. You win!

8. Chat-Speakers. LOL u no wat eye meen? LOLWTF????!!!one! I don't edit peoples' online text, but nor am I illiterate. Were you not taught proper English in school? Did you attend school, or ever drive past one? Does it not ever occur to you that this is a writing based medium, and you are only perceived on how you express yourself? The perception is... U R A TARD! LOL!ROFL!!! ID10T!!!!

9. Sauce packets from Taco Bell. Since they're free, why not just put the flavor in the food to begin with?

10. (My biggest pet peeve, and the broadest based.) People who don't seem to realize that the world does not center around them. We've all met them.. They stand in the middle of doorways. They change lanes with no warning or drive 20 in a 45 zone while they chat or zone out or look at scenery. They walk very very slowly down the center of an aisle, completely oblivious to the hordes trying to pass them on every side.

I could go on for another 4 or 5 days, but I'll leave some room for anyone else who feels like venting or calling me names.

Enjoy.

Ditto #s 8 and 10.

People who ask "why" when I tell them I don't drink. Do I ask why if you tell me you don't like ketchup, or don't eat carrots?

People who walk without picking their feet up all the way, so their shoes drag along the ground and make that scraping noise. Pick up your feet another half inch!!

People who spit on the sidewalk. It's disgusting and there isn't any reason for it. Swallow, or if your spit tastes gross, go home and brush.

Hahaha... Jonq, I agree to a degree. I have a lovehate relationship with techno music that spans the whole spectrum -- and again, I need to clarify that beyond the stereotypes, TECHNOlogically-based music is quite a diverse spectrum, just like there are many kinds of people. Some of it doesn't even originate on synths but are extensively reprocessed version of "organic" instruments. The mainline of progressive trance is quite different in some respects from Detroit techno, while the hecticness of drum 'n' bass can be like hip-hop on acid ("acid" being yet another category). Rocktronica and poptronica are two other confusing offshoots which don't really exist but do, and further along the road you'll find "intelligent dance music", "ambient breakcore", and "tribal house". WHAT THE HECK?!? LOL.

Really though, it's an amazing technocultural experience, and I know which part of the spectrum you're referring to. I think what you more accurately mean is: rotate more between styles, bring out additional colors and tones. Great DJ-producers like James Zabiela and James Holden do this excellently, mixing warm undertones of melodic guitar with more clicky beats and then pushing forth edited stutterdrums and the familiar four-to-the-floor. The diversity is what makes it great but I was at loggerheads with technosnobs over bureau classifications.

Speaking of... electronic music classifications are a NIGHTMARE. Anyone who's curious to hear "a few" of the styles (perhaps more styles than SL has sims at this point) can go here:

http://www.di.fm/edmguide/

^ it's a fun site.


One of my pet peeves is negative redundancy. RRL = Really Redundant Loop. (In my spirit of embracing contradictions, there are good types of redundancy, like power supplies or backing up your data!) Or when someone has every opportunity to ask you a thoughtful question about your beliefs to engage in meaningful dialog, but does not, instead resorting to hurtful insults and prejudiced slams and such.

Hahaha... Tikki just started a thread in Off-Topic about the "leetspeekers", I reckon.

I won't even claim to know the difference between types of Techno music. It's not my genre or my interest. I also won't claim to hate everything that might be classified in its massive folds. (That sounds kinda dirty!) There are always exceptions. Beats I like for some unexplainable reasons.. a song that makes my booty wiggle while I'm cooking.. Who knows I don't like rap or hip hop, yet I love Black Eyed Peas. I can't explain it, and I have no need to. Liking something or disliking something, on it's own merit or lack thereof, is enough for me.

My use of the word Techno is basically the very, very popular style of music where it a repetitive beat with no lyrics, or only sampling. Don't like it. Call it whatever you want. Classify it or sub-catagorize it however you want, I still think it's boring and repetitive.

Thanks for clarifying that, Jonq.

The irony -- and another contradiction that I embrace -- is what you're prolly pointing to is likely trance... if going by SL clubs is any indication. Techno (as a style as oppose to the whole umbrella) is not "very, very popular".

*huggerz*

Maybe you can help me with something, Torley, since you seem to know a lot about different styles. A few of the bands I really like... what would you classify these as..?

Portishead
Morcheeba
Sneakerpimps
Snakefarm

Any idea, assuming you're familiar with them?

Jonq...

OH I LIKE THEM A LOT!!!

That style is generally classified as "Trip-hop" or "Downtempo".

I miss Portishead and Sneaker Pimps (original incarnation). The mid-to-late-90s versions of Tricky and Massive Attack are also among my faves.

Trip-Hop.. gotcha. That stuff I like. Mellow, kinda ambiant.. If hippies had synth, this is the music they would have made

Yeah! I dig that stuff too... psychadelic swirls of lush beats and smoky vocals... way cool.

you explained all the others! what gives?!?!

This drives me up the frigging wall. These people should be tazered.

Here are some of mine.

1.The Parking Garage Bonehead
This is the idiot who hasn't figured out that the parking garage elevator goes up (or down) past the ground floor and holds up traffic behind him/her as he waits for someone to waddle to their car, get in, and back up so he can get a "good" space. Big dummy!

2.Very Special Episodes
Excuse me while I drop kick the telivision.

3.People who take their kids to stores or restuarants and let them be loud and obnoxious.

4.Parents who let their kids talk back to them.
I recently saw a mom try to tell her 10 year old kid to do something. The kid blew her off and kept playing his little handheld video game. Instead of taking the toy away and being firm, she just nagged and pleaded.

5. People who talk in graphic detail about gross personal stuff. This goes double for strangers who talk so loud the whole bus/resturaunt/store can hear them.

6.Sensitive Piano Music.

Aww, cute! I wanna pet Peev now, too!

Actually, I do. Her name is Brodie.

Nice list... especially Sneakerpimps. Love 'em. If you dig all those you should check out Elysian Fields. Sinilar to Portishead but leaning towards a kind of Mazzy Star vibe (in other words, you won't want to beat the shit out of the idiot in the band making all the weird noises. Is scratching really necessary in a smokey blues number?!)

And so as not to be too off topic...

My biggest pet peeve - people who propaganda works on!

One word: minors.

Some things need no explanation.

i got it much later.
on my initial read i was thinking architecturally and i could not understand why someone would hate windows. annoying to clean?

Right, I should have said Microsoft Windows

Architectural windows I rather enjoy. They let light into my house while keeping bugs out, and they give me something to smoosh my face against to make faces at my husband when he's outside.

THAT is one of my pet peeves, definitely! Don't you dare ever smoosh your face against any of my windows! Damn greasy nose-prints! Drives me insane.

If my husband is outside your windows, I'll do anything I like to them! (c:

AUUUUUUGH!!!! *runs and grabs the windex and goes on an insane cleaning binge!*