Enter the pet peeve thread

[Rkolter]

you can't prove that those black things are actually just burnt rice puffs with your average home chemistry kit.


they could just be mice (poop) krispies.

Mouse poop doesn't have that same crunchy texture, unless they eat corn.

[Noise Monkey]

...I'll take your word for it.

[NakedElf]

Or when you bring home a box of cereal which advertises itself as delicious, but in fact tastes like bricks. Same texture and hardness, too.

[Dr Legostar]

people who honestly believe the slogans on "food products"

[CorpAmis]

Thats why you should wait for the launch of the crunchiest, tastiest cereal we are working on:

LEGOLOOPS

[Sketchywallflowr]

That's like the Life cereal commercial where the dad goes to pour himself a bowl and discovers its full of legos, and his son has taken all the cereal to school for lunch. So what does the dad do? Builds a tower with the "cereal".

So friggin awesome.

[JTorch]

That's like the Life cereal commercial where the dad goes to pour himself a bowl and discovers its full of legos, and his son has taken all the cereal to school for lunch. So what does the dad do? Builds a tower with the "cereal".

So friggin awesome.

Yeah, but they cut out the part where the dad gets fired for missing work to stay home and build lego towers.

[Ohemgee]

People who talk too loud.
my mother's small dog.
small children.
my mother's dog.
diet books.
my mother's... oh yeah, I already said that

but really, this dog has an unhealthy obsession with ladies underwear and my cat.... *shudder*

[Yeahduff]

People who can't trust a lit elevator button unless they pressed it themselves. Self-important fucks.

Not to be confused with the debilitatedly impatient person who obsessively presses the elevator button if it doesn't arrive within five seconds of initial contact. That's a whole other affliction I find endearing.

[Ohemgee]

Ooo, I almost forgot-I hate it when people are in their cars and they blare out their music so loud everyone within the block can hear it. I feel like strangling them and throwing their bodies into the nearest river.

[McDuffies]

I am annoyed on daily basis by advertising mentality. The one that thinks that you can make up for all flaws of a product by advertising the hell of it. The one that thinks that no publicity is bad publicity.
I to to a kiosk to buy a paper, start counting adds that are places in a kiosk, ranging from mini-bilboards to screens emiting tv adds, and I count seven of them in that one tiny little kiost. Sometimes I think that advertisers will eventually snatch every little bit of free space there is. To hell will parks, house facades and streets with open space.
I've read somewhere that in an average company, over 50% of company's money in rotation is spent on advertising. Less than 50% on actual production. I find that terrifying.

[TheSuburbanLetdown]

That reminds me, I don't like those "edgy" commercials like the old man getting milked with a milking machine. If I find the ad to be crappy, I'll stop buying their product for a while, like the fake Japanese Jimmy Johns ads. And in the case of Skittles and their old man milk, I'll never buy their product again.

[Yeahduff]

I am annoyed on daily basis by advertising mentality. The one that thinks that you can make up for all flaws of a product by advertising the hell of it. The one that thinks that no publicity is bad publicity.

My pet peeve is that they're right. Terrifying indeed.

[Noise Monkey]

And in the case of Skittles and their old man milk, I'll never buy their product again.

...I'm suddenly quite glad I've never seen that commercial...

[The Mortician]

Because of that one I won't buy the sour ones anymore. Regular skittles were okay... till I saw the commercial of the old man with the skittles touch. That was quite the sad one.

[TheSuburbanLetdown]

I like thier older ones when they were fantasy-based, like the old man planting the skittles and it rains skittles. Oh well, everything goes in phases, so this fake-dada crap will end soon, like a badger to the face.

Hey, it's Hayate!

[NakedElf]

I like the one with the moving beard. The milk one is pretty icky, though.

Our society spends way too much on advertising, and most of it is useless. I mean, if it's a new thing no one's heard of, then advertising is useful. But if it's just trying to convince you to buy Coke instead of Pepsi, on a societal level it's money down the drain.

[Rkolter]

I like the one with the moving beard. The milk one is pretty icky, though.

Our society spends way too much on advertising, and most of it is useless. I mean, if it's a new thing no one's heard of, then advertising is useful. But if it's just trying to convince you to buy Coke instead of Pepsi, on a societal level it's money down the drain.

Well, unfortunately it's not.

See, if Coke stops advertising, and Pepsi continue to advertise, even just to keep it's name in your eyes, maybe not YOU, but on average, people will buy more Pepsi - it's been tested again and again. So Coke has to keep their advertising up, because Pepsi does, and Pepsi has to keep their advertising up, because Coke does.

And the milking an old guy commercial bugged the crap outta me. I liked the fantasy based ones too.

[Tellurider]

I just wondered why they had to give him six nipples.

I mean... ewwwwwwww.

The other thing about advertising: it always comes to haunt you. You could buy newspapers and magazines without those annoying inserts - if you're willing to pay for it. Billboards are annoying - but in Maine, where there are no billboards, the roads are awful. Is branding everywhere annoying? Yes, but there is a level that you have to deal with in order to enjoy other things for a "reasonable" price.

In other news, I hate how I've learned enough stuff to be able to see both sides of issues. When I was a kid it was like "_____ is bad!" Why can't I go back to the blissful black-and-white mentality of youth?

[TheSuburbanLetdown]

I sometimes wish I was happy and stupid too. The more you know, the more irritating things are.