Things that drive you crazy...

"Rubenesque"-What a great word

Go to Redgrave for men Weston..their shoes are the best for mens feet that Ive seen as far as correct proportion goes.(and i have a foot fetish )

~Lana Tomba

- Places that provide no egress once you've tp'd in. No door, no tp out...nuthin'

- Self-righteous people who will actually follow you down and orbit you when you hovered over their land a smidgen too long for their liking. Sheesh...get a life!

Wait...never mind.

Shiny Things includes 2-4 sizes, depending on the shoe.

http://shop.onrez.com/Fallingwater_Cellardoor/?Category=28&Seller=Fallingwater+Cellardoor&Maturity=Safe&SortBy=best_match&SearchString=men&SearchIn=items_current_results&x=13&y=23

Shiny Things includes 2-4 sizes, depending on the shoe, and demos for them all.

http://shop.onrez.com/Fallingwater_Cellardoor/?Category=28SortBy=best_match&SearchString=men



No. And too bad.

It must suck being so popular.

If only it were popularity.

Lana

- Clickety shoes (are Fred Astaire and Ginger Rodgers sneaking up behind me, or what?)

- People who rez a building right over where you're standing in a sandbox, then get arsey when asked to move it

- People, frequently of the Brazilian persuasion for some reason, who start abusing you for not being able to speak their language (I speak four languages already - ain't learning no more. And if I do, the next one will be Japanese )

- People who tp into your land then stand there getting changed / having a conversation with their significant other / staring at you silently whilst you stand a meter away from them, rezzing things and generally making it clear that this is your land, without so much as saying "hi, mind if we stand here for a bit?"

- [Person 1]: "jajajajajajajajajajajajajajajajajajajajajajaja"
[Person 2]: "lol"
[Person 1]: "jajajajajajajajajajajajajajajajajajajajajaja"

Oh dear lord, please stop with the Ja-Tourettes already....please (whimpers)

- "ppl" - 'Pipple'? Who are you, Inspector Clouseau? And just how lazy do you have to be to contract a 6 letter word to a 3 letter one?

- "You want buy this car / bike / flying penis hoverboard for L$20?" Strangely enough, no.

- People in group chat who start criticizing a freebie a designer has been kind enough to give them: "I don't like the colour", "I can't modify it", "it doesn't go with anything I have"
Can you say "entitled brats"? I know I can..


/me feels better now, having vented some spleen

pet peeves eh?

hmmm.....
well let's see....
After reading a book, it sticks with me, right into my dreams! (recently happened, good book but dammit I wish it would leave me alone when I am done reading) heh
People who say OMG I love *insert item you created here* you should sell that, I would buy it, and when you do put it up for sale, they never buy it. (are they just saying it to be nice?)
no mod prim clothes a pain
no transfer clothes (non prim)
what about no mod no transfer, grrr I hate that.... I would rather have no mod.. no copy...
or mod and copy, but no no mod no transfer.
people who like to make thinly veiled comments that are obviously directed at others or a group of others, usually a reference to some incident that has happened in the past or to appear to be witty or funny to others (it is almost like they get a kick out of jabbing someone like that) hard one to explain clearly (something that has annoyed me since childhood, those snide little insults that ppl throw at one another, very thinly veiled as humor)
trying to build and SL snaps things back or doesn't hold textures
and a pet peeve about myself, I am never happy with what I create, constantly changing, many projects on the go, never quite happy with the results
OH!! and damn PC's that will not boot up!!!! GRRR

oooo peevies---

Paying good money for really cute clothing only to find it doesn't fit.

A noob who thinks it's funny to put a penis on their face (Happened yesterday. Sigh)

People who plow into you, moving you all the way across the room, and dont say sorry or excuse me. It's true, maybe I have not rezz'd to you, but when you arrive somewhere, take a couple minutes to let everything popup. This has happened with people who have been in the same area as me for longer than 15 minutes. I just can't believe you still havent seen me by then.


That's pretty much it. I really enjoy most things in SL! These irritations are just minor roadbumps in my day.

More minor stuff..

Teleporting to land for sale only to find:

- Ban lines (especially right on the border of the land for sale)
- Arriving in someones home, apparently the propertly was purchased long ago
- Going to that "corner property" only to find they mean it has a corner, not that its on the corner of the SIM
- Again, having someone immediately fly after you to put on their sales pitch
- Being offered dozens of landmarks and notecards automatically
- You say low lag, yet there are 4 rows of campers somewhere in SIM and I can hardly move around
- Covenant: buildings must only be of the size of the smallest edge of your land multiplied by 3 factorial divided by 6, subtract 3 of your nearest neighbors.. oh, and you can only use brown and curtains must also conform to brown, this is an island after all... ignore the fact that your immediate neighbor has a shiny green glowing home thats right on the property line (they don't count apparently)

To offset the frustration, here is what I really appreciate by some of the nice places I've been:

- Places offering exactly what they advertise
- People with flexible covenants (most seem this way)
- Ban-line free SIMs (including private group triggered lines)
- A notecard I can click to get if I want it that has all the details necessary
- A mailbox where I can leave a message if I want more info
- Owners online status in case I really do want help in person
- How creative so many people are in setting up your SIMs - its nice to see something that isn't the same old square "islands"
- Bonus prims
- No need for a bunch of prior permission as long as you are "within reason"
- Clearly spelled out tier
- SIM owners with separate web sites that are even up to date - nice touch!

Of course I realize the SIM owner has the right to set any rules they want and allow any exception they want.. and I respect that. Furstrating doesn't necessarily mean I'm telling anyone what they have to do. Its just nice to go somewhere that is delivering what they advertise and practicing what they preach. It goes a long way into making a person feel like they might be at home there.

Funny you should mention that...it bothers me greatly that wherever i go to seek model work im told im too CURVY...i wear a standard kinda shape....not overly large but definately feminine & voluptuous....yet im constantly given these anorexic shapes to wear by designers and agencies..and its just..not healthy looking. SL is getting like real life in the fact that unless youre a size 0...youre not in FASHION..id like to see ALL shapes & sizes advertising clothes...men & women...not just the clothes horse types. oh well...

People who call me hun.
Im English.

It drives you crazy that you're English?

I don't mind the "hun" thing all that much in SL, but for some reason it bugs the heck out of me in RL. Especially in restaurants. "Want some more coffee, Hun?" "Want to hear the daily specials, Hun?" Yes I want more coffee; no, I don't want to hear the specials, and I'm not your honey. Can I just get an omelet without us having some sort of intimate relationship where we have little pet names for each other? Maybe some bacon?

Face it Trout, if she didn't love you, she wouldn't help you clog your arteries.

Hmmm, that gives me an idea for my next costume change...

Hun doesn't bother me that much in SL, though I do find it a bit odd. I'm thinking it's a regional thing. Pet names given to me by strangers in RL does make me cringe. 'Mon Amour, Ma Belle, Ma Cocotte are just a few used around here. The only person I will let slide giving me these names is a very kind woman in our HR dept. What can I say, she truly is very sweet and I don't think she means any harm - it's just her way of speaking.

Still weird

OK.....I'll put it another way
I dont like being called hun because Im not German

I really want to open a shop that sells shoes and hair, and name it "Proctology"

Neither were the huns, actually.

[edit]
Well, there was the WWII propaganda that labeled the germans as huns, I'll give you that. But the huns were originally from central asia.


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So now you can add a pet peeve about being corrected on the forums about some triva thing completely ilrealivant and off topic.

Indeed. Huns are Glasgow Rangers fans.


and equestrian nomads from Central Asia with a bit of a temper on them, if we are being all dull and encyclopedia Britannica.

whenever i use the word "Hun" often it's to soften a respone..or gracefully back out of a situation or difficult conversation. It's something i grew up with..heard all my life..I never did think I might be offending people.

Iv'e also used it as a term of endearment..alot of times in the south terms of endearment can be multi facited. I'm sorry "hun" i didn't realise i took your parking space :miles:: /me listens to the lady cuss as she drives by and says to my Mom; "Awwww now wasn't she "sweeeeeet"?((very rarely maybe twice in my life have i seen southern people kill someone with kindness to this extent..but it is a motto around here. ))

Lana

I think there are only 2 things that bother me in sl.

1. Searching for something in the search, thinking you have found just what you are looking for, tping to the location only to find the opposite of what you originally went there for or having to search high and low for it on the other side of the sim.

2. Things that are not cleary marked no mod/no copy/no trans. I feel it is a waste of money if you buy something with the intention of using it as a gift or something and you are stuck with it. Is it that hard to add your permissions to your advertisments?

Other than that all the other annoying crap in sl is easily avoidable LOL

The TP location issue is a pain in the butt, I TP to what I think is a show.. No one is even near.. hmm.. Map green dots.. follow them.. omg lag.. oh the hell with this.. Bye

LMs in slexchange or in avi's picks or adverts that are no longer valid.

It's not a problem for me if it's someone I know, even casually using it as a term of endearment, but it seems condescending when it's used by a complete stranger or by someone who is talking down to me. I'm not saying you do this, btw. I quoted you for the term of endearment portion of your post. I've had the feeling before that people call me that when they think I'm too stupid to understand what they're saying. It's the verbal equivalent of patting me on the head and handing me a cookie to keep me quiet. Bleah.

I don't care in SL at all for some reason. Maybe because I figure it's a regional thing that isn't as accepted where I live as it is in other parts of the world, so I just don't sweat it.