PeevePile • A Pet Peeve Archive

People who tell me I "look tired."
I'm not tired, but I might be depressed. Gee, it makes me feel SO much better when you tell me I am not looking great. So sorry for not perking up Just For You. I'm not a model, I'm not here to make your life better. Am I tired? Perhaps. Or maybe not. Maybe I just decided not to wear makeup. Do you care enough to ask if I'm ill? No.

— Lorraine from Michigan | Health | 12.3.2009 | Comments (3)

Paper cuts
So much hurt, yet so little to show for it.

— fatasianbaby from brooklyn | Health | 4.2.2010 | Comments (1)

The assumption that, because I am an American woman, losing weight is the key to my happiness.
I'm in college and the book for my PE class just straight out asked if I was committed to losing weight. Not getting healthier. Not starting an exercise program. Losing. Weight. It's just a mirror of our society at large. Not everyone needs to lose weight, by the way! Assuming as much is just plain rude and possibly harmful.

— Chelsea from Dallas | Health | 6.21.2009 | Comments (2)

Strangers who inform you that the cigarette you're smoking will kill you.

— Emyko from Maine | Health | 2.9.2010 | Comments (2)

When pregnant women complain about being pregnant.
"I'm so nauseous" or "I'm so tired". Well, so am I- nauseous and tired from listening to you whine about a completely preventable situation. No one forced you to get knocked up.

— GVC from NM | Health | 4.16.2009 | Comments (22)

At a gym class: When a first-timer stands in the front.
The problem is that the off rhythm uncoordinated person is standing between you and the mirror and often between you and the instructor. You have no where to look but at them and it makes you lose your game.

— Hairnette Funicello from Malibu, CA | Health | 7.22.2009 | Comments (2)

When an aerobic instructor doesn't do each limb equally.
If I do 20 lunges with my left leg in front, I want to do 20 with my right. Otherwise, I'll have asymmetric buttcheeks. Often the instructor gets bored by the time they get to the second limb and only have you do about half as many reps.

— Tatertot Smith from humptulips, WA | Health | 10.7.2008 | Comments (2)

Talking about antioxidants.
Everyone is talking about them. Apparently they are good. WTF do they actually do? Nobody fucking knows!

— Hummer from New York, NY | Health | 6.11.2009 | Comments (5)

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.