Pet peeves

[Peter Nevai]

I have a peeve and it really ticks me off! I am paying for cable TV. I get ( and I timed it) 4 min of programing and 5 Min of commercials. ever 4 or 5 min. Now to top it off they are flasing a banned at the bottom between commercials during the show. When is enough -enough? I pay for TV there should not be any commercials and I do remember when that was so. F-N Greed!

Ah but commercials pay for the shows, you pay the cable company for the privilage of not having to have a antenna the size of the eiffel tower to be able to recieve said commercials, aren't we lucky.

[Hoss Cain]

Well I'm now too old and  grumpy to have pet peeves but when I was an USAF Pilot my favorite  pet peeves back then were:

1..Hot Beer
2. Cold women
3.Wet toliet Paper
and
4. Some son-o-a-xxtch that thought he could fly better than me!   

[Wynn Robins]

Vegimite is one of my pet peeves. Y'all got that chit in NZ? It does make good compost, tho.  Steve

its an Aussie import - Kiwis eat Marmite!!  almost the sme Cr@p.  HA

[louie klein]

When I'm on the grocery line and the woman in front of me thinks she is getting her stuff for nothing! When all is rung up it is then that she decides to take out her money or check book out and pay. Hey lady, get your money ready, you have to pay anyway! Sorry about the punku'aton and spellink. My edgamacation was limited. hmmm, spell check says no errors, go figer.---LOUIE 

[Ward Van Duzer]

A M E R I C A N !

[RC Storick]

Ah but commercials pay for the shows, you pay the cable company for the privilage of not having to have a antenna the size of the eiffel tower to be able to recieve said commercials, aren't we lucky.

I would rather have the antenna instead of getting 30 min of a 90 min program.

[minnesotamodeler]

Two things on these forums.




2.  Those who ask if it is important where to place the bellcrank then refuse along with others to understand that it does not make any difference where the bellcrank goes except for reasons of structure or reasonable design sense or to minimize leadout wire flexing at the leadout guides.  Then, there are those who seem to delight in always bringing up this subject.

Keith

...which you just did!!!!

[Serge_Krauss]

gotta say Ameircan spelling is a peeve - words like neighbour, labour, colou, catalogue,  - ALL have a U in them in the rest of the english speaking world - and dont get me started on aluminium !!!!

How about "Artic", "Myself" as the subject of a sentence or synonym for "I" or "me" ('He and myself flew CL today'), and many sportscasters' penchant for saying things like "battle between he and ..."? I guess then that one of my "peeves" is media personalities fracturing the language so badly and often that kids have little chance of getting things right. Professionals...Hmfff!

On a non-peeve topic. My friend Mike, who did my machine (fabrication) and engine-rebuilding work for my karts always called that element "aluninum". If I wanted a job done quickly or wanted to build an experimental expansion chamber, I'd have to drive an hour and a half to New Springfield, and spend the day talking racing. So I heard a lot of "aluninums" each day. Finally, one afternoon, I finally slipped and said "aluninum." Mike didn't hesitate for even a second, before responding, "Ah, YOU say that word too!" I never knew that he even realized he was saying it. Unfortunately, Mike and those great days are gone. Fortunately we have the CL bunch again now.

SK

[Marvin Denny]

  How  'bout the worn out statement in a car race   "He's been fighting that handling problem ALL DAY LONG".  H*** the race only lasts a couple of hours and that plus all the ballyhoo before and after tha race only lasts around four hours!!!!  How can he be "fighting" ANY problem "ALL DAY LONG"?


  In his dreams maybe??

  Bigiron

[john e. holliday]

TV commercials? Don't get me started on TV commercials.

1. Mercedes commercial about how their car warned the drivers they were falling asleep, yaking on their cell phone, not paying attention. Just makes the well heeled look like a bunch of irresponsible, inept and dangerous drivers. But hey, their $60,000 car will save them. I ask "well what about the rest of us"
2. Subaru Commercial where a guy steals the gear shift knob out of his totaled car already in the salvage yard lot, which only happens after the insurance co. totals out the vehicle and pays your claim. Some how this theft is somehow supposed to be cool.
3. Subaru commercial that romanticises leaving you junk car on the side of a pretty country road so others can scavenge parts off of it. And how is polluting the countryside supposed to be desireable?
4. That really annoying woman on the progressive car insurance ad.
5. The totally over played Geico Lizard
6. The Cadillac AD that touts 190mph windshield wipers....... like anywhere in the USA you can drive 190 mph , and in the rain no less. What were they thinking?
7. If I see that Slap & Chop Ad again I think I'll loose my mind
8. Scheduling TV commercials to coincide and overlap between stations. You can change channels and go from commercial to commercial to commercial for a half hour straight.
9. Publishing houses that put different covers on the same book, so you drop $12 bucks getting a new novel only to find after getting a dozen pages in you've already read it.
10. Any object that begins with "I".

Now  you know why I record all my car races and WWE shows.

[Matt Colan]

Tailgaters!  They annoy me to know end, and I will intentionally slow down to p**s them off even more.  Also people who drive on the interstate at about 120mph and just go in and out of traffic not giving a rats a$$ about anybody else driving on the road at a much more reasonable speed (70mph).  Also there never seems to be a cop around to pull them over.

One word I hate, don't know why, but I do, is camcorder.  Another pet peeve of mine, actually this is probably more like an OCD tendency, but when I turn the volume up or down on the tv, it has to end on a 5 or 0.

ONe last pet peeve is when the commercial on TV is louder than the actual program!

[Serge_Krauss]

ONe last pet peeve is when the commercial on TV is louder than the actual program!

Right you are, Matt, and that is one of my biggest issues with them too - that and setting the "background" music volume so high that it obscures the dialog for us older folks. 'seems to me that rather than pandering to those who love excess, we should be setting reasonable standards. Oh, well, I'm playing an indoor rock concert this weekend, where they've already decided to crank up the sound to ear-plug volume. My granddaughter will skip that one, because, believe it or not, she is sensitive to loud sounds at age 18. Wow...

SK

[Ed Keller]

  "when the commercial is louder?"  Its ALWAYS louder!  Ed

[frank carlisle]

Peole that don't proofread there posts. Or maybe they can't reed or right anyway...

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That's Write not right. Get it right when you write. Also you wrote there rather than their. Also you spelled people wrong. DID YOU PROOF READ YOUR POST? NOT!!

My pet peeve is women dressed in skimpy clothes getting miffed if I ogle them.

[John Stiles]

Peole that don't proofread there posts. Or maybe they can't reed or right anyway...

w.

That would be "read" and "write"..........

[John Stiles]

It never ceases to amaze me just how many people are totally unable to spell.

"Dumbing down"   

[John Stiles]

Press 1 for english

[john e. holliday]

I blame the spelling on the key board of this computor.  It doesn't understand what my fingers are trying to relate what the brain is thinking.

[Dick Pacini]

That would be "read" and "write"..........

And "their."

(I'm sure he did it on purpose.)

[frank carlisle]

roof peadinj is vary ipotent. ever buddy shood lern to roof pead or at list spel.

[Bob Reeves]

Tailgaters!  They annoy me to know end, and I will intentionally slow down to p**s them off even more.  Also people who drive on the interstate at about 120mph and just go in and out of traffic not giving a rats a$$ about anybody else driving on the road at a much more reasonable speed (70mph).  Also there never seems to be a cop around to pull them over.
snip

If you would stay out of the left lane or move over and let me by I wouldn't be on your butt 

[Neville Legg]

Doc, its "computer" Well it is here in England! 

Cheers

[Randy Cuberly]

Peole that don't proofread there posts. Or maybe they can't reed or right anyway...

w.

Don't you mean People who don't pfoof read THEIR posts...... like you!
Folks that don't understand the English language!

Randy C.

[john e. holliday]

Doc, its "computer" Well it is here in England! 

Cheers

Guess I will have to go check my old telephone Electronic Switching System(ESS) manuals again.

[BillLee]

Advice vs. advise

[john e. holliday]

Well Randly C., as I told the New Zealand Team in 04 when they let me have the pleasure of dining with them opening night at the Worlds.  I speak American.   Mainly what I learned in Missouri and Kansas plus traveling around this great big country of ours.  Especially when I was accused of having a southern accent by my brother-in-law from Minnesota.

[PaulGibeault]

Well since you asked & since this IS suposed to be a control line forum.

- People who step on my lines in the pit area.
- Flyers who's friends/relatives/kids step on models / lines in the pit areas
- Parents who allow their kid to drive a bicycle over my wing (in the contest pit area) then leave, without saying a word.
- Abusive language contestants (often directed at the CD)
- Modellers who think fist fighting will help the CD see their point of view (REALLY!)
- Modellers who think the court system / lawyers is useful if they don't get their way
- Poor losers...(especially at low key local events)

Paul

[dennis lipsett]

People who put an apostrophe in a word when adding S.  Instead of making the word plural, as they intend, they make it singular possessive.  It absolutely drives me crazy and I often wonder how this wide spread practice ever got started.

The apostrophe has two functions; to indicate possession or to take the place of another letter.  It doesn't make something plural!

Sorry for the rant, but you asked.

Dick,
I'll referer you to this site so you can figure oput who is using that little mark incorrectly. We are appointing you the apostrophe policeman on this forum.
LOL lOL lOOL
dennis

http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/apostrophe/

[FLOYD CARTER]

All the rants about TV reminded me of another:

You rent a DVD movie,. and most, of not all the actors merely whisper, or deliver their lines with "mush-mouth" making it nearly impossible to understand.

So I always opt for English sub-titles.   Often, what I read has little resemblance to what the actors seem to be saying.

(John Wayne is the exception, of course!)

Floyd

[Neville Legg]

I have "intelligent" friends (that was nearly "fiends", till I reread this! ) One is an ex-teacher, and they feel we should help kids by allowing them to use text speak in exams and school work WHAT! They think that writing down  a phrase like, "r u alright m8?" (are you alright mate?) should be acceptable, we are dumb enough in this country without going any further

Cheers

[John Stiles]

Dick,
I'll referer you to this site so you can figure oput who is using that little mark incorrectly. We are appointing you the apostrophe policeman on this forum.
LOL lOL lOOL
dennis

http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/apostrophe/

And that's[that is] the trooth!  "Press 1" (3)times for apostrophe!

[Chuck Feldman]

TV adds reveal where the big money is in my opinion. These are the ones that get me the most. Medicine, Diabetic stuff, motorized scooters, car insurance, lawyers that fight the government. OK we have a big problem with medicare! I believe that the medicare is so badly managed that they pay out millions and millions in duplicate or bad claims. TV commercials indicate to me that this is correct. These companies know this and just keep on pushing for more and more. How many of you see this to?

[Chuck Feldman]

Dick,

I never liked English class. It always seemed to me to be a bunch of rules that serve no real purpose. So I may annoy you with my poor grammar. I know my weakness and use spell check all the time. May I add get over it?

[Dick Pacini]

Dick,

I never liked English class. It always seemed to me to be a bunch of rules that serve no real purpose. So I may annoy you with my poor grammar. I know my weakness and use spell check all the time. May I add get over it?

Sorry that you never cared for English.  Spell check allows more mistakes than it corrects.  It doesn't know the intended use of words like their, there or they're, two, to or too.  They are all correct words, so spell check won't find anything wrong with the use of any of them.  As far as getting over it... .

[Clint Ormosen]

I never liked English class. It always seemed to me to be a bunch of rules that serve no real purpose.

The "real purpose" of English classes was to keep people from sounding like complete idiots. I should have paid more attention myself!

OK, peeves. I have a bunch.
-The "press one for English" is a big one.
-TV commercials in general. I know they pay the bills, but I hate 'em.
-NASCAR=BORING. Everybody knows that drag racing is REAL racing. Long live the NHRA!
-Rain. Anyone that talked to me a the NWR knows how I feel about this one.
-Leather fillets. If it can be found in a cobbler shop, I don't need it on my plane.
-Tippy CA bottles. How hard could it be to put the stuff in a more stable bottle?
-Customers that call me 15 times a day to tell me they're hot. Leave me alone for Gods sake! I'll get there when I get there! Keeping me on the phone all day sure isn't going to speed things up.
-Crying babies. So annoying. It's amazing that my own three girls lived through infancy. Good thing their mother was around.
-NFL refs that call every little foul. Dammit, just let 'em play the game! And "clipping" should be legal.
-Anti-gun advocates. I could do a whole paragraph on this one. But I won't.
-Anti-BOM advocates. I could do a whole paragraph on this one. But I won't.
-Rappers. Learn how to read music, you morons!!
-People that have their face stuck in an i-phone 23 hrs a day.

I better quit here before it looks like I have some problem with the whole world. I'm actually a pretty easy going dude!

[Neville Legg]

Clint, the word Rap has a silent C in front of it, when applied to "music" I too, wasn't keen on English lessons 45 years ago, it's only now I wish I'd paid more attention! It is so nice when reading a novel or even an article on model finishing to have it flow, and not have to constantly re-read a paragraph or line because the author knew what they wanted to say, but can't  grammatically get the point across to the reader. That is why we were taught "proper" English, whether we liked it or not! It's so much easier now with spellchecks and the like, so why do I feel that standards are falling?

[Chuck Feldman]

Dick,   Actually   ok ferget bout it;

[Mike Keville]

That horribly annoying chick in the Progressive Insurance TV ads!

[Dick Pacini]

That horribly annoying chick in the Progressive Insurance TV ads!

You mean Flo?  Her real name is Stephanie Courtney.  She has quite a following.  It takes them 5 hours to put her makeup on. 

[John Stiles]

You mean Flo?  Her real name is Stephanie Courtney.  She has quite a following.  It takes them 5 hours to put her makeup on. 

I can believe that!

[Dick Pacini]

I can believe that!

The makeup really doesn't take that long.  It's waiting for the filler coats to dry and then sanded off that takes time.

[Mike Keville]

How many clear coats?  And what's up with that super-annoying VOICE of hers?   

[Clint Ormosen]

You mean Flo?  Her real name is Stephanie Courtney.  She has quite a following.  It takes them 5 hours to put her makeup on. 

I think she's cute!

[john e. holliday]

You mean Flo?  Her real name is Stephanie Courtney.  She has quite a following.  It takes them 5 hours to put her makeup on. 

She is just zany enough to be one cute lady.  Of course I am getting old.

[richardhfcl]

"Flo" is quite perky.  I find her quite fetching!

[John Stiles]

"Flo" is quite perky.  I find her quite fetching!

I like the gal on "Pickers"  Danielle way better! http://theodoremedia.com/assets/Uploads/newfolder/_resampled/resizedimage516600-DanielleCushman.jpg 

[Air Ministry .]

C.A.D. ,plastic ,  jap motorbikes , television, television anouncers , Mc Donalds ,plastic , plastic jap motorbikes,
and did I mention television announcers .

[Neville Legg]

People who insist (political types usually) they know what's best for me, then force it on me, whether I like or not, which means I'll be worse off spiritually and financially!

Cheers

[Derek Barry]

-Having to be fluent in Spanish to order food at a drive through in GEORGIA!!

-and the federal judge who keeps on overruling the states who try to do something about it. 

[Derek Barry]

-oh yea, and the shiny white primer brigade.....