My pet peeve is when someone acts like they are giving me a choice but will really only accept the choice they favor as an answer and will not leave me alone untill they get their way.[/align]
about myself-Hypocrisy, I think that should just about cover everything...
My pet peeve is that when my son is having a meltdown in public or is stemming and people look at him. Then they look at me in a judgemental way and you know they are thinking "what the hell is wrong with him. Can't you control him". People can't look outside of themselves for a minute and think that there may be something else going on that they just don't see. They judge without any information. I know that is life, but still my biggest pet peeve.
no.1 biggest pet peeve:
*People who expect answers to rhetorical questions*
Making an astute point and having others ignore it.
(maybe it isn't astute, and maybe they just didn't hear or it went over their heads, but when it is like the tree falling in the forest and no one hears it. . .. it is still my pet peeve
you are so right, Meiloyn!
People that use sports terms, like I should KNOW immediately what that MEANS or feels like.
I read an article that AS don't have mirror neurons. When NT's watch a football game, or a group dancing, their motor neurons intheir brains FEEL what the others are EXPERIENCING through 'mirror neurons'. ASpies don't.
WE see it alright, but we miss the FEELING of doing it that those NT's and especially those who are really co-ordinated see it and feel like they are doing it.
So, when some one says "be a TEAM PLAYER" ( like I have ever been on a team! (sarcasm) or "dont' take your eyes off the ball" (ball? what ball? (sarcasm) or " it's a SLAM DUNK" I can only intellectually know what they mean. To them, they are EXPERIENCING the feeling.
and I just "pass the ball" and I know how it feels to pass and be passed. . .
Merle
Here are a few more of mine:
First, people who don't know how to form a proper line at the cash register at a store. Seriously... It isn't that hard. You stand behind the register, behind the other people if necessary. And the icing on the cake is when these people get pissed off because I actually got in line and therefore go to the register first. Standing and talking with your friends while about fifteen feet to the side of the cash register is not waiting in line.
Second, people who walk extremely slowly (but talk extremely loudly) in large groups and block the entire walkway. Enough said.
Third, people who ride those huge, butt-ugly, retro-style bicycles with handlebars a yard and a half wide. And especially when those people ride them on the sidewalk, crashing into people and hitting them with the handlebars.
Haha... And the people who think that evolution means that people evolved from "pond scum" as they put it. That these people think that evolution means that we evolved from freshwater, photosynthetic protists is laughable... Like Answers in Genesis-type crap.
I had a friend who I just recently ditched that used to just randomly scream !Oaye! down streets and in stores to see who looked up, all the time, out of nowhere. Whenever he did that I seriously wanted to kick his teeth in. He thought it was some funny Bam Margera type ***.
Bad drivers drive me nuts also (everyone claims that, of course), to the point where I don't even drive anymore and am trying to cancel my insurance. The weavers are annoying, but for some reason what just really gets to me is people who don't signal on the freeway... especially when they're going to a central lane during moderate or heavy traffic, which happens all the time.
About the cash registers, I feel like I should point out that sometimes it's really confusing to know where to stand to be in line - sometimes the decision of where the line has started is up to the most assertive person there. For example I used to work at a seven eleven, and when there were two people working the registers, people didn't know if there were two separate lines or what, which caused all sorts of confusion. And I couldn't really blame them because when it gets crowded, how the hell would you know? The fact that there's merchandise in the way of where the lines should be never helps.
[quote]"I could care less" being used instead of "I couldn't care less". It doesn't make any sense that way![quote]
Yeah, that one really annoys me too. And when people say "irregardless".
Crap, I messed up the quote tags. You get the point though.
Hahaha... I hate it when people say "artic". Watching An Inconvenient Truth was extremely frustrating for me simply because Al Gore always mispronounced the word. I think I made a post before complaining about some presentation I had to watch in my zoology class in high school where the kid repeatedly stated that penguins were from the "artic".
I hate when people say "a-loo-mi-num" instead of "aluminium"
Actually, Humphry Davy (the guy who discovered the element) called it "aluminum". That is the original spelling and the original pronunciation, and the form that presides in the United States. It is not incorrect. The only reason "aluminium" came into use is because someone else in Britain (not a scientist) thought the latter pronunciation sounded better, and its use spread from there among speakers of British English and its daughter dialects.
Most of mine are sensory these days:
-Loud cell phone yakkers
-People who insist on jabbering in libraries
-People who play their stereos so loud you can hear them two buildings, or five car lengths, away
-People (especially guys) who put on WAY too much cologne/perfume - particularly ones who seem to be using it as a substitute for baths
-People who eat loudly (eeewww...)
-Idiot neighbors who won't leash their ^$*^)*% dogs and then let them chase people
See a pattern here?
Also:
-Curebies (not just re: autism)
-Pretty much the entire US public educational system
-Abbreviated, semi-illiterate "kewlspeak" spellings the younger set uses in online writing/texting - I wouldn't mind it if it didn't leak over into everything else they write too
-People who think that dressing and acting like a skank on crack (think the Pussycat Dolls-types here) is somehow empowering for women
I'm a terminal grouch, though.
Meega
People who refer to everything as being "cute". Today I heard some girl saying "OMG, your hair is so cute!". I'm sorry, but I can't think of any hairstyle that has the features almost universally considered by advanced vertebrates to be "cute". It's like using the word "literally" in a figural sense.