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September 1st,2010

Mistakenly buying Ikea secondhand.

— Biffy from Brooklyn, NY | Household | 9.1.2010 | Comments (0)

August 30th,2010

Having to walk through the kitchen of a restaurant to get to the bathroom.

It's like taking a tour through the digestive system.

— Biffy from Brooklyn, NY | Dining | 8.30.2010 | Comments (0)

August 27th,2010

Kids with huge backpacks

Sometimes so big they are actually little suitcases with wheels that they pull along behind them. New York parents: you have taken things too far, anyone can see this is just plain wrong.

— Stuart from | School | 8.27.2010 | Comments (0)

August 26th,2010

When you have the speaker phone on "automatic" and you put it up to your ear after dialing and the dial tone blows out your ear.

I do this all the time.

— Ben from Staten Island, New York | Technology | 8.26.2010 | Comments (2)

August 25th,2010

Use of "cyber" as a prefix for internet-related items.

Why is it cyber-harassment, instead of just internet harassment? Cyber bullying, cyber-stalking? What does 'cyber' even mean? Is it supposed to evoke the fear that AOL drained from the internet? Is it like lawnmower man? Technological naming conventions seem to be stuck in 1992.

— Biffy from Brooklyn, NY | Internet | 8.25.2010 | Comments (0)

August 23rd,2010

Hugging every time we see each other.

I go to work, and I have to hug every person I pass when we all get to work. Honestly, I saw you 12 hours ago - Really? I'm still fine, it's still goin ok, still nothing up. I try to brush bye with a quick, 'Hey!' And somebody will say, 'What? No hug?' WHY?

— cathi from Florida | Etiquette | 8.23.2010 | Comments (1)

August 20th,2010

PDFs of something with columns, forcing me to scroll the entire length of the page multiple times to read one page of text.

Maybe it's just a student thing, but having to scroll down, then up, then down again for every page of a 20+ page document makes my eyes cross!

— kimk from Vermont | School | 8.20.2010 | Comments (0)

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Religion

The ring of churchbells More grating to my Jew-ears than the sound of mezuzahs on a chalkboard. — Vagina Jones

Silly church signs such as "If you are looking for a sign from God, this is it." — Trentdaddy

When people ask me if I've found Jesus. Did I ever lose him? I hate this expression so much. Whether you are religious or not should be defined by "finding" Jesus. — Cindy

Style & Fashion

People who wear long-expired lift passes on their ski jackets nowhere near a ski hill. Are you trying to look sporty? Or do you not own a pair of scissors to remove it? If you need a zipper-pull that badly, you can do better. — Liz

fashion/beauty business' tendency to singularize plural nouns Did you see the smokey eye on the YSL runway? The highwasted short is just begging for a strappy sandal. The bridesmaid dress will be paired with a red shoe. This would be way cooler if the models were one-eyed, one-legged, one-footed folk. — Hairnette Funicello

Bathrooms

When someone takes the urinal next to you, despite any number of other urinal choices. — Jesse Ball

Public bathroom stall doors opening to the inside. It seems that all public bathroom stall doors open to the inside. When I'm at an airport and I have a big carry-on bag, it's incredibly awkward to get in the stall because the door practically hits the toilet and there's no room for me to get in. — Marla

Being ignored by motion-sensor devices in public bathrooms Toilets, faucets, paper towel dispensers, they all treat me like I'm invisible or motionless, when I am actually standing in front of them, flopping my hands around trying to trigger them so I can get the hell out of there. — Vagina Jones

Clothing

Baggy boxer briefs. You have three options: Boxers, briefs, and boxer-briefs. Boxers are loose and cotton (pr perhaps silk, if you're one of those). Boxerbriefs are tight and hot, with an element of lycra to make them so. But, baggy stretchy t-shirt material boxerbriefs are the old sweatpants of underwear. Go ahead and wear them when you're sick and farting around the house, but don't fool yourself into thinking they are appropriate for public display. — rebecca

Hip children. Kids should not dress stylishly. Fashion is about sex, and children don't have sex, so they should be allowed to dress however they like, not like mini adults. — Stu

Trendy charity T-shirts I'm sure you bought this cute t-shirt with the disease-appropriate ribbon/phrase including "green" or "eco-"/vague but possibly awareness-oriented slogan after seeing it on a sincere-looking celebrity in a magazine ad. And that of the $15 you paid for it, about $3 went to any actual charity organization. And now you get to walk around acting like you are a person who really cares and boasting that you just made a real difference. Instead of what you actually just did, which is "go shopping like usual." — Olivia

Single = Anomaly? » You forgot the cats in that litany of cliches. Even if her only standard is having mutual lovey-dovey feelings with someone, this either happens or it doesn't, there's no forcing it. Those who spout "you're not trying hard enough" and "you're too picky" does not seem to understand this. Maybe she simply means that she would be settling if she married just to meet people's expectations, since she hasn't met someone she loves who loves her back. NOT that everyone who is married is settling. – B. Alexander 8/27

On a coat, or a skirt, with a slit, the manufacturer will sew the slit closed with a small X of thread, and people are too stupid to realize they're meant to be removed. So they walk around with their vents sewn closed, and I want to run up to them and snip the threads off and then loudly shame them in public. I don't know how I've managed to restrain myself. » Hee, seems like some people actually don't know they can snip those. If you approach them nicely, maybe they will let you snip it for them. – B. Alexander 8/27

Hugging every time we see each other. » There is a definitely a too-many hugs problem, and another peeve: when someone hugs everyone a group except YOU, or you don't feel lik hugging one person but don't want to be exclusionary. – Biffy 8/27

When pregnant women complain about being pregnant. » if you have a kitten is it okay to be pregnant ? – kylie 8/25

The use of the word addicting. It's not a word! You mean "addictive"! » THANK YOU. – Nancy 8/24

People who ask me to burn them a CD. » Surely they're asking you to burn it because they don't have the files they want to burn onto it, but you do? – Rosie 8/24

02.11.10

Send in your mobile phone pet peeves for the week of February 15th! Perhaps the simplest and most common generator of peeves, the mobile phone prods and pricks us in all places, public and private. With skull phones just around the corner, it’s likely these peeves will soon become irrelevant—so let’s spray them across the galaxy while we still can.

01.18.10

For the next week or so, the pictures for peeves will be of Peeve Pile’s national spokesperson, Rob Grace, and his special person, Shana, enacting various peeves. Please feel free to make such pictures yourself. Just include a link to them when submitting a peeve.

01.02.10

Hello. I’ve added a voting feature, so you can vote as you assume that you would – just click on a one-to-five star rating (it will tell you your vote has been recorded); five indicating that you completely agree with, or find the peeve amusing, one meaning the opposite.

Once a bunch of ratings are in, I’ll add a worst, and best rated area to the right column.