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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)

Read More Peeves ››

Household

Do you mind if I use your bathroom? As a guest in my home, should you even have to ask this? What am I going to say? No? "Take it outside, please." — Lauren

Electronic items which lack a switch, and therefore must be unplugged to be turned off. — Biffy

When two light switches control the same light, but one must be off and the other on for the light switch to work. — Ben

Religion

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

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

Television

"Oh, you're such a [insert Sex in the City character name here]!" Congratulations, it has taken you a mere five words to relieve me of my will to live. — Diana

The moral superiority shown by non-TV watchers. You think you better than me just because you go hiking while I watch the Flava o' Love? Well, you're not. You go right ahead reading your Proust. I'm gonna settle in here, flipping between The Real Housewives of Orange County and Hogan Knows Best. — vagina jones

The amount of time that news programs devote to what goes on in Hollywood as opposed to real news. If I wanted to hear this stuff I would turn on Access Hollywood, not CNN. — Rebecca

Self

Feeling excited about the mundane. It's revolting how pleasant it can be to, say, organize your desk drawer, or cut 2 minutes off your commute. — Biffy

Catching annoying speech mannerisms from others. An acquaintance starts sentences with "Honestly, . . ." all the time. It makes you want to peel your face off with irritation. Then you think about it so much that one day, quite to your surprise, you start a sentence in the very same way. — Diana

Asymmetrical eyelid creases When you wake up one morning and one eyelid is creased funny, making your whole face asymmetrical. — Karolena

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.