The pet peeves thread

[IrvingWashington]

Oh, boy. What happened now?

[justaute]

@AbsoluteUte

Road Rage. Road rage leading to fights. Road rage leading to death. People tailgating, driving aggresively, but acting surprised when someone lets them know they are disturbing selfish people.

So…half of Utah? Haha

[Greginslc]

@justaute

So…half of Utah? Haha

Hey…I like “raging”. It’s where I learn my best insults.

[ExquisUte]

@justaute

So…half of Utah? Haha

That’s the aggressive half. Then there’s the passive half.

[justaute]

People who fly and decide to line up ways away from the gate – clogs up the walkway. All because people are too selfish and obtuse to understand order and efficiency.

[LuckyUte]

@Ma-ake

Upside of phishing emails - employees ignore legitimate emails / meeting invites. “I thought it was a phishing email!” (Most organizations can safely have fewer meetings!)

People who miss meetings who claim it was because they thought the invite was a phish.

[Greginslc]

People who phish while they’re fishing.

[ExquisUte]

People who listen to Phish while eating “Phish Food” ice cream.

[NewbombTurk]

Wind

[Steggys_Mixtapes]

People use use laser pointers in movie theaters.

[Greginslc]

People setting off the smoke alarms using the laser engraver because turning up the HEPA cleaners was too much work.

EDIT
When being awoken from your Saturday afternoon nap this way forces you to suppress your innate desires to strangle the people who did it.

[3UteDad]

@NewbombTurk

Wind

Yours or someone else’s?

[NewbombTurk]

@3UteDad

Yours or someone else’s?

Today it was the hurricane force winds that were blowing all the trash from those goddam elm trees into my yard. But high winds in general, especially that which is generated by other people.

[LAUte]

@Steggys_Mixtapes

LAUte

Now what do you want?

[Greginslc]

Having your wife doing tech support for hours for a robot vacuum she bought for the in-laws. Nevermind the damned thing needs a WiFi connection and the in-laws won’t place the vacuum in a spot where they have a connection.

This is turning into a borderline human rights violation here.

[salUTE]

@Greginslc

damned thing needs a WiFi connection

The phrase that comes to mind is, “over engineered”.

Edit to say: My wife recently purchased our household’s first EV. I have been considering purchasing a new car and have been looking at them also. I’ll comment much more here later, but can give you my preliminary review of my wife’s car emphatically using the same phrase “over engineered!”.

[justaute]

People who think “alot” is a word.

[justaute]

@salUTE

The phrase that comes to mind is, “over engineered”.

Edit to say: My wife recently purchased our household’s first EV. I have been considering purchasing a new car and have been looking at them also. I’ll comment much more here later, but can give you my preliminary review of my wife’s car emphatically using the same phrase “over engineered!”.

Cool. Have been driving one since 2018 and will never go back to ICE. Just reserved my 2nd one for a 2026 delivery.

[justaute]

People who think ostensibly means apparently.

[Ma-ake]

Academics and oldsters who dis compact, easy-to-type Utah’isms and / or youth slang.

Examples:

• “prolly”
• “suss”

We’re Americans! We’ve been wrecking English for 400 years!

Trust me, I worked in England, there’s no foregiveness for us creating the verb “party”.

Might as well just roll with it, now.