PeevePile • A Pet Peeve Archive

Being told other people have it worse when I talk about a problem I have. » Right, but some people can be really insensitive about this, like by complaining about a problem they have when you wish your life was that good. Like "my dad keeps sending me dividend checks from this huge stock investment in my name, but I am SO tired of living in his shadow and just wish I could cut him off totally but am afraid to not have the money, even though I make well over 60K a year and have no debt" when I am in the midst of unemployment and student loan drama. I think when people say "some have it worse" it's sometimes a very polite, gentle code for "do you have ANY respect for what I am going through at the moment?" – Diana 3/8

Being told other people have it worse when I talk about a problem I have. » Yes, I know that other people have way worse cancers than mine, but I'm still scared shitless. And no, I'm not freaking grateful. – Acacia 3/8

When people say "American" when they mean "White" or "Caucasian." » Yep, Nationality does not equal race does not equal ethnicity. Especially for somewhere like the USA where most places are pretty diverse. – Punky 3/8

Receiving an email regarding a phone call. » I hate that as much as I hate the 'email, then immediate phone call to ask "Did you get my email?!?!"' Yeah, I got it. Give me a damn minute. – Raj 3/8

When people say "American" when they mean "White" or "Caucasian." » way to miss the entire point of the peeve – wow 3/6

Being told other people have it worse when I talk about a problem I have. » Definitely. This is akin to the "everyone feels that way, Biffy" peeve. I'm no telling you my problems so that you can diminish their worth. – Biffy 3/6

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.