[quote=“rocky raccoon”]People that wear sunglasses indoors.
STOP BEING A FUCKING TOOL[/quote]
Nah, I think it’s great. I can identify them as tools immediately and don’t have to waste my time finding that out by actually talking to them. It’s like a t-shirt that says “I’m a dumbass. Don’t bother talking to me.”
[quote=“redwagon”][quote=“rocky raccoon”]People that wear sunglasses indoors.
STOP BEING A FUCKING TOOL[/quote]
Nah, I think it’s great. I can identify them as tools immediately and don’t have to waste my time finding that out by actually talking to them. It’s like a t-shirt that says “I’m a dumbass. Don’t bother talking to me.”[/quote]
Lol, I guess it is a good screening system.
PC Disclaimer: If you’re blind and you want to wear sunglasses indoors, I don’t think you’re a tool. You might be a stupid blind retard, but you’re not a tool.
[quote=“rocky raccoon”]People that wear sunglasses indoors.
STOP BEING A FUCKING TOOL[/quote]
There’s a specialist tool subset that you only find in airports, usually limited to HKG or Taoyuan, and they peeve me… the silly cow Taiwanese women who think that by wearing hollywood sized sunglasses, a cap and too much makeup in the airport building and then onto the plane, people will think they are a celebrity… er… sure… nothing says showbiz like clutching arm fulls of duty free discount cigarettes and standing in the economy class line… :loco:
…unless it’s for medical reasons, that is…
One of my peeves: when I click on a thumbnail on a webpage, and what appears next is NOT a larger version of the same picture.
Chris made me think of one that really gets me…
progress bars… as in during installation of software, downloads, whatever… there are various insidious versions but the underlying peeve is common to all of them… a progress bar should accurately indicate progress godammit… surging from 0% to 90% in seconds before taking 5 mins to complete the last 10% is just not on… even worse are the “progress bars” that make more than one pass, the bar fills up you think you’re done then the SOB goes back to empty and continues for a second or third cycle… before finishing about one third through the fourth pass!!.. finally the likes of YouTube who buffer videos and display the % done, and it climbs from 30%, 67%, 89%…20%, 25% WTF? how can it drop back to 20% mid buffer, the previous “89% buffered” was just feel good propaganda or what?!!.. :fume:
okay, that’s it… less coffee… peaceful thoughts…
The cripples, pram pushing parents, bow-legged old folks and the bag laden imbeciles that race out of their seats to assume a position at the front of the gangplank as people are about to step off my daily ferry commute. They know their damned slower than everyone else, so why not wait and let the fit and healthy depart first? I wanna throw them all into the sea. AND why the fark do they always smell like a heady mix of mothballs and shit? What’s with that?
HG
I see this in Vista a lot - especially when copying files. The progress bar is near the end, then it pops back down to halfway or thereabouts. XP was always good at estimating reaming time; you’d think Vista would be more advanced, but Noooooooo…
It seems most of my gripes are transit related:
people who push onto the MRT or into an elevator the second the door opens without waiting for people to exit. The majority of offenders I see are old ladies. I think they were born before common sense, logic, and good manners were invented.
People who walk 2 or 3 abreast on the sidewalk. Moving painfully slowly as they chat, but leaving no space for you to get by, and in fact seem to unconsciously expand to block you when you try to get around them. The majority of offenders are students. The old ladies who lack common sense, logic, and good manners are passing on their traits to the younger generation. You don’t feel as bad about brushing them out of the way as you do the old ladies.
People who are walking by themselves, painfully slowly, but still manage to take up the entire sidewalk. These offenders are a mix of the first two groups. I can forgive the old folks with a cane, but some ass with his mp3 player makes me nuts.
People who step onto a crowded MRT, and instead of moving in, just stop as soon as they are in the door, completely oblivious to the 100 people behind them that need to get in.
I also look forward to the end of the election season so the loudspeaker trucks will be limited to repairmen and stinky tofu vendors.
[quote=“dumas”]People who walk 2 or 3 abreast on the sidewalk. Moving painfully slowly as they chat, but leaving no space for you to get by, and in fact seem to unconsciously expand to block you when you try to get around them. The majority of offenders are students. The old ladies who lack common sense, logic, and good manners are passing on their traits to the younger generation. You don’t feel as bad about brushing them out of the way as you do the old ladies.
People who are walking by themselves, painfully slowly, but still manage to take up the entire sidewalk. These offenders are a mix of the first two groups. I can forgive the old folks with a cane, but some ass with his mp3 player makes me nuts.
People who step onto a crowded MRT, and instead of moving in, just stop as soon as they are in the door, completely oblivious to the 100 people behind them that need to get in.[/quote]
Unless they’re elderly, bigger than me (a rare case), or an obvious gangster, I give them a gentle push. If they don’t get the hint, I give them a more forceful push. They gotta learn their lesson somehow.
Worthless co-workers who hardly do any work, so I finally assign them one simple task despite knowing they’re barely capable of handling only the simplest of tasks (which this seems to be) and they, not surprisingly, completely fail to follow up on the assignment causing it to escalate into a truly bungled up mess that they’re even less capable of handling, so I’ve got to take the whole damned thing back and do it myself. :fume:
I know some might suspect its a conscious strategy on their part to avoid being handed work, but I don’t believe it; I’m certain it’s pure ineptitude.
Ever notice how old people are slow…except when they’re getting on the bus or waiting at the drug dispensary. Then in the blink of an eye they’re up at the front of the line! It’s like magic!
Hear! Hear! Seems every time I cotton on to something at 7-11 (or any other convenient convenient store) they stop selling it and replace it with something really crappy - or not at all!!
Regarding waiting in line (i.e. queueing):
People who stand near the end of a line. They’re standing in the grey area where I can’t determine if they’re actually waiting in line or not.
This includes those people in the MRT stations who stand at the back of those demarcated queuing areas, with a huge gap between them and whoever (if anyone) is in front of them.
In such cases, I just cut in front of them.
Oh, and you know how those queuing areas in the MRT are painted on the floor in pairs? Sometimes one column is filled with people waiting, while the other is empty. :loco: I just go right to the front of the empty column.
[quote=“Chris”]Regarding waiting in line (i.e. queueing):
People who stand near the end of a line. They’re standing in the grey area where I can’t determine if they’re actually waiting in line or not.
This includes those people in the MRT stations who stand at the back of those demarcated queuing areas, with a huge gap between them and whoever (if anyone) is in front of them.
In such cases, I just cut in front of them.
[/quote]
Don’t make it a habit if you’re ever stateside. In America, people leave a huge gap between them and the person in front of them. Respect for personal space I guess. That’s why you hear people ask “you in line?” all the time when they join a line. And the chances are good that they are.
My MRT pet peeve is still people getting on as soon as the door opens and you have to fight your way off the train. They should promote the xian1 xia4 hou4 shang4 (getting off first before getting on) policy a lot more.
What I’m referring to is ridiculously large gaps in front of the MRT train door: standing at the back of the painted stripes when there’s one person standing way at the front (or none at all). That’s a gap of about 15 feet!
I’m from the US. In the US, I’ve only seen such huge gaps when people are zoning out or engaged in conversation and don’t realize the line has moved. Then once reminded, they hasten to fill the gap.
People throwing money down on a counter and not saying “thank you”.
People speaking with food in their mouths.
People who mistreat animals.
Faeces, urine an vomitus in porn.
People.
One cat tripped me up, causing me to drop a raw egg on the other cat, who was understandably pissed off. Eggy cat ran in a big circle around the living room, shaking himself, and is now rolling around on the sofa. My sister is yelling at me because there is egg everywhere on her sofa and my mother is saying something about me always being the messy one.
So yeah, cats and eggs.
Or even:
People speaking with animals in their mouths.
People who mistreat food.
People who leave their left over rubbish and food on the table outside the 7-11 front door or throw it on the floor when there’s a rubbish bin not 10 feet inside the door.
My doorman who tells me I have returned home every singe time I return home and that I’m leaving every time I leave. Why?
Every Taiwan person who tells me I can speak Chinese! Duh!
People who ride their motorcycles down the footpath. Even worse are the people who ride down the footpath in the same direction as the traffic on their side of the road! Brainless pillocks!
The police station on my way to work that bluntly refuses to do anything about the countless numbers of motorcycles which ride past the front door on the pavement (sidewalk) each and every day so as to avoid the traffic light that I wait at and watch.
People who wait three minutes at a red light whilst stopped over the line. YOU’VE ALREADY GONE THROUGH THE RED LIGHT YOU PILLOCKS!
Worse are the people who wait at the red only to go through the red as the adjacent light begins to change. Why wait in the first place you stupid idiots!
People who change their lenses to clear or odd coloured ones.
People who wire up all their indicators to the brake light.
People who put needlessly loud exhausts on prattly little scooters.
People who are so F’ing lazy that they can’t move one finger to operate an indicator.
People who drift across the road and straight towards the side of your motorcycle.
People who chew binlang
People who stubbornly say MingNan language is Taiwanese, but admit that Mandarin is from China and so can’t be called Taiwanese. That just doesn’t make sense. You can’t have it both ways.
People who carry their children on motorcycles.
People who don’t put their children in appropriate seats or seatbelts.
Double parkers.
The idiots in planning who think they should post the freeway exit direction signs only after the exit turnoff.
Wankers who stubbornly refuse to drive in single file and make every effort to switch and change only to maintain the same position, but slow the entire traffic queue in the process.
The entire Taiwan police force.
People who don’t speak Mandarin clearly because they think its cool, which includes a recent spat of T.V. commercials.
Girls who try to seem weak and pathetic just to please their insecure boyfriends. Get a life!
Almost all Taiwanese men (that I’ve met. I’d hate to make bold conclusions)
A good 80% of Taiwanese women that put up with Taiwanese men.
Restaurants that don’t take pride in the cleanliness of their kitchens.
I’m tired. I’m going to bed. I’ve got better things to do right now 
That reminds me of the security guy at our building. Every day when I walk outside to grab something to eat I get an enthusiastic “chi fan!”.
Like I don’t know when it’s chi fan time. Or at least try and come up with something new to talk about once in a while. 