Tag: peeve
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January 02, 2009 07:22 PM EST --
My current biggest pet peeve on Gather is when the Bookmarks cover up the rating so you can't rate a post any higher than a 3, and does not seem to want to go away no matter what you do. Once I saw . . .
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August 09, 2009 08:11 PM EDT --
What is your biggest pet peeve?
I have a few but my biggest is going to a restaurant and having the wait staff act as if they are doing you a favor. I have been known to . . .
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May 13, 2009 03:53 PM EDT --
I will never understand ANY company that believes they are going to sell, get their bill paid, or even get my attention when they call my house with a non human saying " This is an important call . . .
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December 27, 2009 10:31 AM EST --
Have you ever noticed how we tend to use certain words when we either don't know the proper name for something or we simply forget what to call it? I don't know about other languages, but the English . . .
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August 23, 2009 03:26 PM EDT --
One of my pet peeves is that people increasingly use "I had X done" to mean that something happened TO them not of their choosing, rather than that they arranged to have something done.
For instance: . . .
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May 08, 2007 05:08 PM EDT --
One of the most annoying things to me is when somebody tries to talk behind my back when I'm 2 feet away and they're pointing at me to figure out who it is. Unlike some people I don't care . . .
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August 11, 2009 04:40 PM EDT --
We all have our pet peeves.
I decided to share this one with you because I see it regularly on Gather. That is, I see it a lot. Or, should I say: alot?
That is my pet peeve of the day: alot.
Please . . .
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September 19, 2009 11:56 PM EDT --
If you are going to call me and ask me for important info that you know you are going to need to write down, why don't you find some paper and a pen that works before you call me???????
I take inbound . . .
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December 08, 2009 06:58 AM EST --
I've been writing about Information Systems for over three decades, mostly to I.S. professionals, and I've spent in inordinate amount of time trying to clarify our terminology and concepts, as well as . . .
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May 23, 2009 09:15 PM EDT --
If I never have this happen again . . .
I walked in a store to ask for a particular plant. The salesperson responds, "I just sold the last one."
Now, do I really need to know that?
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February 22, 2007 07:24 PM EST --
I spend hours on the computer every day.
In the process I fill out a lot forms.
I hate the sites where they ask "country" - and then you click a box where the choices
are listed... and the . . .
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December 21, 2009 11:00 AM EST --
On more than one occasion you've heard me talk about the deterioration of social skills in the work place, primarily due to the heightened influence of technology. It is not uncommon to find people who . . .
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January 26, 2007 01:44 PM EST --
I hope people will use this group to get things off their mind, or to receive some calming advice or comfort from other members.
In Ephesians 4:26 it says, "Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the . . .
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April 26, 2007 04:59 PM EDT --
This is driving me CRAZY!! I am not implying in any way here that I am perfect, and I have probably made this mistake myself at some point, but I need to say something about it because it bugs the heck . . .
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September 07, 2007 11:29 PM EDT --
It really annoys me when the stuff I am buying scans a different price at the cash register than what's displayed on the price tag. Usually if the scanned price is higher, I would ask to pay the lower . . .
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November 14, 2007 11:09 PM EST --
Okay folks... anyone have a pet peeve they want to vent about today?
Mine is people in my office being late for work! The reason they are late is because of road construction. Everyone knew . . .
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January 13, 2008 04:57 PM EST --
I just posted a question that I typed in word and pasted to publish in gather. WHY??? does the spacing get all messed up when I do this? It always looks great until it actually posts. . . .
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November 17, 2008 10:29 PM EST --
My pet peeve ironically has to do with PETS! Why oh why do people not get their animals spayed or neutered?????? I can see an accident happening maybe once, but twice and three times and so on? I . . .
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September 04, 2009 06:56 AM EDT --
"So, I want you to get up now; I want all of you to get up out of your chairs; I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out, and yell, "I'm as mad as Hell and . . .
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September 15, 2009 07:06 AM EDT --
I recently developed a poll in Facebook whereby I was curious how Americans generally felt about their government officials, specifically how much they trusted them. To this end, the question was simply: . . .
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