PeevePile • A Pet Peeve Archive

Vanilla internet image searches derailed into porn viewing.

— Chucky Sleeze from Brooklyn, NY | Internet | 1.9.2010 | Comments (2)

when websites require long and complex passwords
i just want my password to always be vanilla. always. i don't need 12 characters and 3 numbers and an illegible captcha so that no one can break into my account on Fire Fly Watch.

— rebecca from brooklyn | Internet | 5.5.2009 | Comments (3)

Narrating your reactions to things on the internet, with irritating language derived from stage directions.
This especially happens in blog comments. *Rolls eyes in disgust.*

— jmc from long island city | Internet | 5.6.2009 | Comments (3)

Life Narration in Facebook Status
When a self-employed person posts details of each and every project, meeting, and deliverable on their Facebook status. I don't care where you're going to be at 5:00 OR 6:30, but knowing your client list lets me target them for competition.

— Paul from Des Moines, IA | Internet | 12.10.2008 | Comments (1)

When an anti-spam verification code, be it to register at a website or post on a blog or to illegally download free music, is so hard to make out that I fail to enter it correctly, perhaps more than once.
An example would be that last time i tried to post a peeve on peevepile, I failed to enter the correct verification code twice. very frustrating. It will probably happen again in a second when i try to submit this peeve.

— rajesh patel from rahway, new jersey | Internet | 11.29.2008 | Comments (1)

When people say "first" on internet comments.
Extra peeve points when: a) you're not actually first b) you misspell it (ex.: "frist!" "frts!1!") c) you're using it ironically ("furst!!1one) See: perez hilton, any post.

— amanda rachel from westchester, ny | Internet | 5.15.2009 | Comments (3)

When someone posts a URL and it isn't linked, and you have to copy-paste it yourself to see it.
Dude, check out this hilarious site www.abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/omgwtfbbq/~%%%%%%%%%%%%%%/.cgibinofrubbish/ html/thisistheURLthatneverends

— Sarah from San Jose, CA | Internet | 10.26.2008 | Comments (2)

Recieving an email to confirm that I have unsubscribed from an email list.

— jmc from LIC, NY | Internet | 10.22.2008 | Comments (1)

People who superciliously claim they don't have a TV, yet view television shows with commercials every day on the internet.

— Biffy from Brooklyn, NY | Internet | 10.7.2008 | Comments (3)

When people list high school books as their favorites
I mean really. All listing 1984, animal farm, and catcher in the rye as your favorite books does is let everyone know you haven't read a book since adolescence. Leave it blank people.

— rebecca from | Internet | 9.15.2008 | Comments (7)

intra-website "Search"es
Type in something very specific and you get back a list of meaningless crap-o links, like the bad old days before Google.

— Stu from | Internet | 1.3.2009 | Comments (1)

While chatting on the internet, when people don't press enter frequently enough.

— Hairnette Funicello from Malibu | Internet | 10.23.2008 | Comments (4)

Receiving a bulk email from someone you never hear from anymore.

— Biffy from Brooklyn, NY | Internet | 11.3.2008 | Comments (4)

When people use the anonymity of the internet as an excuse to be complete and total jackass turdheads.

— jacq.z from New York, NY | Internet | 10.13.2009 | Comments (1)

Being on someone's non-profit or creative project email list for eternity after dating them for a very brief period, or merely making their acquaintance.
Once a month, I have to experience a little bit of guilt when I receive an email invitation to a fund raiser to save children who are stricken with some terrible degenerative disease just because I met this girl on Halloween two years ago, and talked to her for an hour â€” and that was it.

— Charles from Trenton, NJ | Internet | 1.14.2009 | Comments (1)

When non-Brits sign off emails with the word "Cheers"

— Jess from Brooklyn, NY | Internet | 1.13.2009 | Comments (5)

Websites that require way too much personal info and/or usernames & passwords especially when you know you'll never use the site again.
Ordering postage stamps online, I had to type in three different passwords before I found one that was the proper number of digits and the correct alphanumeric ratio. The whole process of inputting my personal info nearly exceeded the amount of time I would have spent physically in line at the post office. And why do you need my mother's maiden name?

— Anonymous from | Internet | 2.18.2009 | Comments (3)

When an intimate friend forwards you a political email.
How do you unsubscribe from this list?

— Grome from New Green Bay | Internet | 12.22.2008 | Comments (2)

People who don't know how to send e-mail using blind carbon copy.
I don't need to know the e-mail addresses of all your friends, and your friends don't need to know mine.

— Laz from Illinois | Internet | 7.16.2009 | Comments (2)

People who post messages and send e-mails and type in an e.e. cummings style.
try to read paragraphs & paragraphs typed like this it's gets very irritating after a while e-spechially wen werds are misspilled

— Denise from Peabody, MA | Internet | 12.24.2008 | Comments (7)

Blank email subject line, or subject line completely unrelated to email text.

— Dirk Piston from Silicon Valley, CA | Internet | 5.19.2009 | Comments (3)

Unverified sensational email forwards.
I have written back to my parents time and time again linking to articles on www.snopes.com (which debunks all kinds of urban myths and email forwards) in response to obviously unbelievable emails about some freedom being stolen, or some poorly written diatribe that a famous comedian supposedly wrote. Do they now check snopes before they send forwards? No. I believe that officially makes them OLD DOGS because they can't learn new tricks. And I can say that with impunity because lord knows they won't actually check snopes to see if old dogs can really learn new tricks or not.

— Snatch from SF, CA | Internet | 10.29.2009 | Comments (3)

Bands that invite you to be their 'friend', but really their fan.

— j-mac from SF | Internet | 5.24.2009 | Comments (0)

Web pages that make you click on something to "enter." Why would I go there if I didn't want to enter?

— Christo from New York | Internet | 6.21.2009 | Comments (2)

Sideways and upside-down online photos.

— Peeve Me Baby, One More Time from san francisco | Internet | 7.31.2009 | Comments (0)

Forwarding email etiquette: Don't make me scroll down.
First, you receive a forward, which is already kind of annoying, and second, must scroll (read: work) past the annoying lists of recipients just to get down to the (probably stupid and erroneous) message.

— Peeve Me Baby, One More Time from san francisco | Internet | 8.27.2009 | Comments (1)

People who believe forwarded emails will make them money.
When people actually believe that if they forward you an email, Microsoft will give them money. And, when people don't actually believe it, but forward it anyway.

— Lexi from Seattle, WA | Internet | 9.29.2009 | Comments (1)

I hate it when people stick their Bluetooth headsets in their ears and walk around when they're not using them. It just looks really, really stupid. » I call that look "business douche". 50% human, 50% robot, 100% asshole. – Brandi 3/16

When people make you take your shoes off before entering their house/apartment. » I have to side with the poster on this one. I think if you have guests over, you should just deal. It's not an every day thing. – jmc 3/15

When people make you take your shoes off before entering their house/apartment. » I agree with the two other comments before me. It's actually much more cleanlier to take them off. It seems to be more of an American ritual. (Canadians by the way tend to take off their shoes always) – Kara 3/15

When people make you take your shoes off before entering their house/apartment. » Think of the things buffered by your shoes on your way over to that house/apartment. Dogshit. Gum. Spit. Actual DIRT. Yes, I may have some cat hair on my floor, but the bottoms of your shoes are still too disgusting to be on my carpet. – D. 3/15

When people make you take your shoes off before entering their house/apartment. » yes. yes they are. – E. 3/14

People who consume multiple french fries per mouthful. » I suppose we should eat them one at a time, with a fork (held ONLY in the left hand...Eurostyle), and pat our mouths after each fry with a napkin? ;-) – Ami 3/12

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.