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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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s/o pet peeves.. what are your eccentric ones?
1) when people don't close cabinets/drawers/closets all the way. when i sleep, i have to make sure everything is closed.
2) when people use cliches to make you feel better. if you're gonna say something trite, just be silent. personally, sitting in silent solidarity is more powerful.
3) it's not conversate. it's converse. stop listening to too many rap songs. hahah (although i do like rap.. hahah)
4) when people stand on the dance floor. and don't. even. dance. they are taking up room for those who really want to shake their groove thang...
5) when people get pissed off on the dance floor because someone bumps them. okay fine, i don't condone huge pushes, but if you're dancing on a dance floor, what do you expect is going to happen???
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Re: s/o pet peeves.. what are your eccentric ones?
1. When someone doesn't take their cart back to the cart section in the parking lot after they've been grocery shopping.
2. When someone doesn't have the basic manners like turning around to see if someone is there so you can hold the door for them. I mean really......how long does that take?
3. The words 'WICKED' and 'SICK'. As used in this sentence, "That car was so SICK" or "That car was WICKED sweet". Hate it.
That's a good start........there's plenty more where these came from! :
1. when ppl don't wash thier hands after using the restroom.
2.my kids don't put their dirty dishes in the dishwasher when it's empty
3.when ppl can't hang the towel on the towel rack in the bathroom
4.have some friends that all they do is talk about every one .
5.ppl that are unorganized and live like a pig.
1. When people salt my cooking before they taste it (lol see my whiny post below).
2. When people say, "Oh, you'll understand when you [fill in the blank]." Especially if that fill in the blank is "have kids of your own." Well you know what? I have kids and I STILL think that 90% of the things that I was judgey about totally deserved it. So there. Neener neener.
3. Totally with you on the closed drawers etc thing! Ben thinks I'm a lunatic because I HAVE to have the sliding closet doors closed all.the.way before I get into bed. It's weird, I know.
4. When people mispronounce words. Not even tricky words, just regular, everyday words. Like "axe" instead of "ask". Or "brought" instead of "bought" - my own husband does this one, and sometimes I'll intentionally play dumb ("You brought it at the grocery store? Why did you bring it there? Oh, you mean BOUGHT.") because I'm a b!tchy cow lol.
5. When people kinda sorta arrange things/line things up but don't really. Like if they arrange a row of books in height order, but one or two are out of place, it bugs the sh!t out of me. Yes I know it's probably an undiagnosed OCD issue.
1. Like PP, when people can't hold the door open for you when you're coming in right after them OR when you hold the door open for someone and they don't say thank you... as if you're the freakin door man.
2. My biggest pet peeve is chewing with their mouth open but a lesser peeve is when people scrape their forks across their teeth. I just shudder.
3. When people leave beer bottle caps laying around. You threw away the bottle, throw away the freaking cap!
4. People who think it's ok to be late and leave early at work. Really? How much did you really get done in a day when you decide to come in late, bother everyone else, call your mom to talk about the family, call your friend to talk about sex or the breast implants his wife is thinking about getting, call the lawyers who are there to work on cases with us not deal with your personal issues all the time, and then leave early because you have so much you need to take care of????? Well, I suppose you are pretty busy making up all those elaborate excuses we all get to hear about.
Whew... sorry for the rant but dang that felt good.
1. I have a big problem with the word "nauseous." If you are nauseous, you are making those around you ill.....putting forth nausea, so to speak. If you yourself are ill, you should say, "I am nauseated."
2. (MH is a big offender of this!) If you change your mind about an item in the grocery (or an other) store, don't just shove it wherever you feel like it. Either go put it back properly or give it to the cashier so an employee can put it back.
3. My cat has a little triangle of white fur on the middle of her forehead, and I can't stand it when it gets messed up and pushed to the side. It needs to be symmetrical!
1. red tape/officiousness for no good reason.
2. grammar nazis.
3. people who tailgate and/or accelerate to ride your bumper when they see you turning or merging in front of them.
4. checked-out parents that bring their rowdy kids into restaurants and let them run around and misbehave.
5. things placed in the refrigerator haphazardly so they either fall out when you open the door or they take up more room than need be because they're just shoved in there and not arranged in an organized manner.
6. clean clothes out the dryer that either don't get folded or, if they do, don't get put away. For me, "doing the laundry" means start to finish...fold the clean stuff and put it away!
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1. I am with Sarah on the grocery cart thing, BIG time. I can't stand it when people leave their carts out. Do you want your car dented by someone's left-behind cart? Neither does anybody else! And yet, you feel entitled to leave yours just sitting around for the next person to avoid. Is it really so troublesome for Special You to walk an extra 20 feet to the cart return? /rant.
Sticking with the grocery store theme:
2. People who park in handicapped spaces with someone else's permit. It makes me furious. Sometimes I'll be shopping with my dad, who has trouble walking and needs to park close up, and the H spaces are all full. We circle around and a perfectly healthy person comes out, gets into one of the H-space cars, and drives away. Come on... if I'm in my dad's car alone I'm not gonna park there just because I can. How rude.
3. People who pull up to the front of the store while someone else runs in, and then just sit there waiting. You're clogging up traffic and blocking pedestrians, just sitting behind the wheel of a running car. When J drops me off to run in and grab something, he pulls into - ZOMG! - a parking space. When I exit the store, he sees me and comes back to pick me up. How is this not common sense? Or at least common courtesy?
1. When someone tries to get on an elevator before letting others get off first. If you're waiting for an elevator, it's because someone is already using it... let them get off before you barge in!
2. Poor customer service. I'm sorry that you hate your job at McDonalds (or wherever), but it's not my fault. You only have a job, because of customers like me, so at least be polite.
3. When you let someone merge or something in traffic and they don't wave to say thank you.
4. I may get flamed for this one, but it annoys me when people on The Nest/Bump purposely misspell cuss words. This is from the The Nest's community rules: We know you are all adults, and no, we?re not going to ban you for using profanity in conversation. So really the only reason to misspell the cuss word would be to not offend someone, but I would be no less offended if someone told me to "fvck off." Purposely spelling the word wrong reminds me of a little kid whispering swear words, so their parents don't hear.
I think that this particular one is more because even though the Nest won't ban you for cursing, it does ban the words. So you can say "shitty" but not "***", and the only way you can use "" is if you misspell it "fvck" - otherwise the Nest's forum software will replace it with a bunch of asterisks.
LOL see what I mean about banning words? I typed them out properly and it either replaced or removed them. The words I used were sh!t and fvck. Only with the proper spelling.
Don't even get me started on Nest pet peeves. The acronyms and misspelling drives me CRAZY. My two biggies - AF (who the EFF calls their period Aunt Flo?!?) and bewbies.
I had no idea it did that. I guess the misspelling of the words make a little bit more sense now... but I still don't like it. I still believe that if you have a strong, valid point you don't need to swear. But thanks for telling me that.
I hate bewbies, too. The term, not the people. Although it doesn't annoy, I don't understand JealousE. Anyone know where that one came from?
AH YES!! I third this thought!
I believe someone misspelled it in a stupid, flame-able rant and everyone kind of jumped on it - now it's a way of saying "super jealous" but usually in a joking way.
but I must confess, I say nauseous! Hehehe I'll say the correct way next time...
I love grammar, but as you can tell from my posts, I really don't care when I'm not getting paid for it... Hahaha
Lisa I laughed when I saw you're salting post below cause I've actually been meaning to post this topic! Hehe there's another question post I've been meaning to add too. But that'll be later...
I figured out another one today. I hate it when people don't flush the toilet. How difficult can it be?!?! And in public... Gross!!! Do a courtesy glance before you leave the stall! I'm sure looking at your own business is less shocking than looking at someone else's!
and while we're at it. Can it be safe to say that automatic toilets with sensors are not some new invention anymore??? I think we all know by now, if you get up, pull your pants back up, and do a courtesy glance, the toilet should flush. If it doesn't, how difficult is it really to push the emergency flush button?!?!?!
ugh
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This made me laugh because the first time I heard the term Aunt Flo, I was about 18 and got REALLY confused - I literally thought that the girl's aunt named Flo was visiting, and couldn't understand why she laughed hysterically when I asked where her aunt was from.
I can be a little dense sometimes...
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1. People in cars who put their feet up on the dashboard or the side mirror, especially bare feet. This grosses me out soooo much.
2. People who answer their cell phones during a movie and then don't bother to turn their phones off and get another call during the movie and answer AGAIN! I'm noticing a pattern with a lot of the pet peeves everyone else listed. So many of them are a result of a lack of common courtesy!
3. When drivers forget to turn off their turn signals. Who wants to be next to them constantly wondering if they're going to get into your lane, especially if you slow down to give them space?
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My dad does this and it drives me nuts!
Boy, I sure do have a lot of pet peeves.
My mother does this. Well, she does it when she remembers to use her turn signal in the first place, which she doesn't half the time. *sigh*