pet peeves and irritations

[Keroin]

Most of my pet peeves involve toenails. However, here's one that really annoys me:

When someone shakes your hand or hugs and/or kisses you and then, maybe five minutes later, tells you they have been or still are very sick. Ack! Please tell me that before you rub germs on me! The worst flu I have ever had came from a friend of a friend, who decided to attend a New Years Eve party despite her illness...and didn't tell anyone. Of course everyone hugs and kisses at midnight. Germ fest.

I spent two weeks flat out and another two months recovering, as did a host of others.

 

[MisterSir]

Yes, those people are jerks, but that said, I think its important for the professor to acknowledge other opinions and thoughts on the matter at hand, and I think that they should actively encourage their students to make up their own mind.

Absolutely, and yes, professors who can't accept alternate viewpoints are at fault. I'm personally privileged that I never had to deal with that. I also don't have a problem with somebody who wants to briefly raise another point, but when they get a reply and carry on talking it makes me stabby. They can have as much time as the professor wants to give after the class, but in class, shut the fuck up I'm trying to learn.

 

[missginger2177]

I know the type of people you mean, the students who only want to argue with the professor the entire class period on one small point or whatever, just to show that they know something that the professor doesn't. Yes, those people are jerks, but that said, I think its important for the professor to acknowledge other opinions and thoughts on the matter at hand, and I think that they should actively encourage their students to make up their own mind. Arguing with the professor over a date or some small fact is stupid, and the professor shouldn't have to deal with such silliness, but one of my biggest pet peeves is professors who refuse to acknowledge other opinions on the materiel and who's biggest "proof" of being correct is that they are the professor, and you aren't. That is bullshit, and I just cannot respect or believe or learn from any professor who does not show me actual proof or reasoning.

See my comment up above. Once again, the PhD does not grant all-knowing status. That's reserved for certain doms I know *insert Peanut laugh here*

 

[WriterDom]

People who smoke.

Can't smoke in Georgia restaurants. Best law they ever passed. Do you mind if I fart continuously for 10 minutes while you try to eat?

 

[BiBunny]

Condescending asses who think that because a.) I'm a woman and b.) I'm Southern (and country), then I must be stupid. Particularly because of the way I speak.

I only speak like a redneck when I'm around other rednecks. So if you think the "mildly educated redneck" voice is bad, you should come hang out with me and my friends and take a listen....

Besides, if you have to talk down to me to make yourself look intelligent, you aren't that smart, anyway. If you're really smart, you can do your best to hide it, and people will still know. If you're really *not* smart, you can wear your ass on your shoulder and sling big words around all you want, and people will still know you're a moron.

 

[missginger2177]

Condescending asses who think that because a.) I'm a woman and b.) I'm Southern (and country), then I must be stupid. Particularly because of the way I speak.

I only speak like a redneck when I'm around other rednecks. So if you think the "mildly educated redneck" voice is bad, you should come hang out with me and my friends and take a listen....

Besides, if you have to talk down to me to make yourself look intelligent, you aren't that smart, anyway. If you're really smart, you can do your best to hide it, and people will still know. If you're really *not* smart, you can wear your ass on your shoulder and sling big words around all you want, and people will still know you're a moron.

This is an affliction I am quite familiar with. My twang comes through at the least appropriate times too. Makes people up here look at me differently.

Pet peeve: Damn Yankees!

Edit: You can't talk about the Stars and Bars without starting WWIII either.

 

[ultramarineblue]

People who want me to read their mind. I don't like playing guessing games. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you if it can happen.


and kittens that won't stop biting for the hell of it can irritate me a little bit....


and forgetting what I originally intended to put here. I hate finding out about really cool things I want to go to after they happen.

 

[graceanne]

People who want me to read their mind. I don't like playing guessing games. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you if it can happen.

Actually, this is one of mine. And to add to it, people who don't tell you what's going on and then get pissed off cause you're not psychic. 'You should have known' makes me see red.

 

[ultramarineblue]

Actually, this is one of mine. And to add to it, people who don't tell you what's going on and then get pissed off cause you're not psychic. 'You should have known' makes me see red.

That is a particularly annoying one...

 

[ImOnIt]

I have an ethics lecturer who is often late, anti male and likes to discuss her mother. She has a doctorate relating to ecology /climate change.

Lectures in that class get so far derailed as to melt one's mind. *cringes and shudders*

 

[graceanne]

That is a particularly annoying one...

Yeah, but it, for me, goes beyond peeved and irritated to full out pissed off.

 

[Sir_Winston54]

I have an ethics lecturer who is often late, anti male and likes to discuss her mother. She has a doctorate relating to ecology /climate change.

Lectures in that class get so far derailed as to melt one's mind. *cringes and shudders*

Huh? WTF? What is her qualification for lecturing in ethics?

My recommendation: If you're going to finish the course, do so... THEN go to the Dean of the College/Department Head and ask why she was chosen to shepherd this class through the thorny and Byzantine topic of ethics rather than someone who actually has at least a minor degree in it. I would also recommend, if your college/university permits it, taping some of her lectures and letting the Dean/Head hear how *off topic* she allowed (or forced) the lectures to get. It won't help you for this term, but it certainly may help future students. (Enlisting other disgruntled students {preferably students who got As or Bs in the course } to go with you when you interview with the Dean/Head will provide extra weight to your inquiry, if you can.)

I know many students have gotten little or no satisfaction from such actions... but I also know of many, from my stints in academia, who were able to show administrators that a particular instructor was inappropriate (in whatever way{s}) for a course and gotten them removed from teaching it.

In the late 1970s, I was part of a group of about 10 students who did this in the College of Business at the University of South Florida about a Ph.D. instructor teaching a grad level course (18-20 students per class, so approximately half of our section of the course) in labor relations and employee management (I can't remember the exact course name now - it was >30 years ago!). This particular Ph.D. was 27 or 28 years old at the time, and had never worked a "real job" in his life, let alone *managed* anyone! We researched his CV and found out that he had gone to high school, college for his BA, then his MA, then his Ph.D. and gone straight into teaching at the university level, never having had a job doing anything other than teaching.

Some of the outright *crap* that he espoused was, even at the time, directly in conflict with either state or federal labor laws, and even moreso with current management theory. The book he forced us to use had been written in the early 1950s (!) by his father (!!!), who only had an MA in business, despite the fact that the 25 or so years since its publication had resulted in massive changes in both labor/management law and theory.

Strange... beginning the second semester after our interview with the Dean, this guy was no longer teaching *any* classes that had anything to do with employee management/labor relations... instead, he was teaching undergrad level intros to micro- and macro-economics (200-300 students per class). (The first semester after we took the class, he was already booked for and had begun teaching the new semester.) The new prof for the class was using a book that had been published the year before, *and* had been a successful businessman for a number of years before he turned to teaching.

Your voice *can* be heard, if you simply use it and present your case in a logical, dignified and respectful manner. Remember, even as a student, you are the consumer and as such, have more power and influence than you might think.

Sorry this is so long, but unqualified/incompetent teachers are one of *my* pet peeves. That's one of the reasons I got out of teaching; I was so burned out by required non-education related matters taking time and energy away from my teaching that I was becoming incompetent, and I couldn't do that to my students.

 

[bruisedangel]

Willful stupidity. I can handle nearly anything from just about anyone. Willful stupidity is something I just can't take. This essentially lumps together nearly every peeve I have in regards to people. When someone is willingly ignorant, not only do they act and sound stupid, they tend to be exceptionally rude about things, as well!

 

[jenniferbaby]

People who want me to read their mind. I don't like playing guessing games. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you if it can happen.

I don't appreciate having to mind read either. I'm not particularly good at it.

ETA: Reading this pisses me off: "This forum requires that you wait 30 seconds between searches. Please try again in 30 seconds."

 

[ultramarineblue]

I don't appreciate having to mind read either. I'm not particularly good at it.

ETA: Reading this pisses me off: "This forum requires that you wait 30 seconds between searches. Please try again in 30 seconds."

The wait between searches is pretty annoying.

This isn't particularly annoying but I think there are some people that I would probably enjoy reading their posts if their av wasn't so annoying. I know I could just turn them off but there are some avs that are just too good to not look at.

 

[rainbowgirl1028]

another pet peeve of mine is when people say, "like" every other word.

 

[ultramarineblue]

another pet peeve of mine is when people say, "like" every other word.

and ummm, yeah, like, ya know? *bangs head on desk*


adding: using a z instead of an s. Just type the damn s. You're not an effing teenager. Stop trying to sound like one.

 

[00Syd]

Willful stupidity. I can handle nearly anything from just about anyone. Willful stupidity is something I just can't take. This essentially lumps together nearly every peeve I have in regards to people. When someone is willingly ignorant, not only do they act and sound stupid, they tend to be exceptionally rude about things, as well!

This.

 

[graceanne]

ETA: Reading this pisses me off: "This forum requires that you wait 30 seconds between searches. Please try again in 30 seconds."

Yeah, that annoys me.

 

[DVS]

and ummm, yeah, like, ya know? *bangs head on desk*


adding: using a z instead of an s. Just type the damn s. You're not an effing teenager. Stop trying to sound like one.

Hey, like I can't help it. I've got an email account that like should have an s in it, but some azzhole already haz that name, zo I had to like uze a z inztead. Zorry, but zhit happenz that like zometimez can't be helped.

 

[graceanne]

Hey, like I can't help it. I've got an email account that like should have an s in it, but some azzhole already haz that name, zo I had to like uze a z inztead. Zorry, but zhit happenz that like zometimez can't be helped.

You just couldn't resist, could you?

 

[MisterSir]

You just couldn't resist, could you?

Well, he zaid zorry.

 

[graceanne]

Well, he zaid zorry.

 

[missginger2177]

You just couldn't resist, could you?

He does tend to cause trouble, doesn't he?

 

[ultramarineblue]

Hey, like I can't help it. I've got an email account that like should have an s in it, but some azzhole already haz that name, zo I had to like uze a z inztead. Zorry, but zhit happenz that like zometimez can't be helped.

You just couldn't resist, could you?

Well, he zaid zorry.

First real smile in several days.