*Little* Things That Annoy You (Pet Peeves)

[Ken]

I can't stand "airhead" romcom movies.

 

[Ken]

When people try to rationalise my vomiting phobia, by trying to make it sound less bad than what it is.

Yes. I find it extremely offensive and insulting when anyone dismisses, makes light of or downplays any of my phobias, sensitivities or especially any of my PTSD's.

 

[Cryptid]

The same people posting the same complaints over and over again while doing nothing to improve their situations. Granted, some people's situations cannot be improved, but there is no need to remind the rest of us day after day.

 

[Misty Avich]

When autistic people get offended when I express my autism dysphoria.

 

[DaisyRose]

My new pet peeve is texting while watching a movie in the theater. It breaks the immersion.

 

[Neri]

" Duper's delight" smugyness. Narcy peeps who get a kick out of trying (and succeeding waaay too much, IMO) to deceive people. The gross fake smiles they pull ~ euughhhh!!!!! Those sorts of smiles never reach their eyes and they give me the creeps. Even though I don't like all that much eye contact (a minimum will do thank you), I can still tell the difference between fakers and genuines. And the fakers are grooosssssss!!!!!

 

[DaisyRose]

I have a new pet peeve and it’s bad children. I’ve been working and I’ve noticed how bad kids are these days. They don’t care about consequences or anything. Some kids are so bad it’s frustrating. I’m like why are y’all letting your kids act like that. It’s embarrassing to see the kids rule the parents.

 

[Misty Avich]

I only get offended by things worth getting offended about, like that blog site that was discussed here recently, where these entitled women bashed their autistic partners and commented in such horrific ways. That is horribly offensive and I would feel the same had it been the same about any group of people.

Racism is another pet peeve on mine but these days it seems things that aren't racially offensive are still called racist, so it's come to a point where you're walking on eggshells. It shouldn't be like that. To me, racism is going around calling people of a particular race offensive names, or unfairly discriminating them or not wanting to talk to them because of their skin colour, or spreading nasty lies about them, stuff like that. Racism should not be about having harmless opinions, being patriotic, or consequently punishing someone of colour because they committed a crime.

Even writing this post took a long while because I had to keep erasing words, even though the words weren't offensive but I knew might be interpreted the wrong way and cause an uproar. All it takes is for someone to misinterpret something and the whole thing blows out of proportion and you get branded as racist forever, even though your first intentions were nowhere near racist.

 

[tazz]

All it takes is for someone to misinterpret something and the whole thing blows out of proportion

 

[Misty Avich]

Whispering in ASMR videos. Honestly!

 

[Misty Avich]

When people believe in time travel being possible but don't believe that curing autism would never, ever be possible not in a million years.

 

[Kavigant]

People chewing with their mouth open and/or making smacking noises while they chew drive me crazy.

 

[Misty Avich]

My pet peeves in the Sims 2:-


The fridge suddenly running out of stock, usually at the most inconvenient times

Adults autonomously dancing together with the kids and the irritating noises the kids make when they do so

The fact that you can't get your sims drunk

The ugly, immortal social worker coming to take all your kids away if they get too hot or too cold from playing outside, so you can only have them play outside for a short while, which is unrealistic

The sims having wants that are hard to achieve

The headmaster never being impressed with the home no matter how hard you try

Being unable to call sims if they are in the sim bin because they don't have a phone. Can't the game just make out that sims in the sim bin are as good as being homed from the perspective of your current family you are playing?

Sims taking ages and ages to clean their teeth and keep doing it several times a day

Sims keep bathing the toddlers even when they don't need to be bathed. I usually just buy a shower when I have toddlers in the house

Sim toddlers. I don't know why but I hate them, they're not cute, they're just ugly and annoying (my opinion only)

Sims who keep autonomously splashing in puddles or playing in leaves

The fact that you can't sit toddlers on the couch, not even on an older sim's knee

Teaching a toddler to talk or sing a nursery rhyme but after it has learnt it still only babbles and can't actually speak or sing

Santa bringing a gift that they have already got. You'd have thought the game would make that more original, like having Santa bring a toy that you cannot buy in the sim catalogue

Christmas being called winter festival or whatever it is. Seems exclusive if you're from Australia...

Turning the free will on will mean the sims will autonomously do the most irritating things, but turning free will off will mean they will just stand there until you ask them to do something, which I find creepy. What I'd like is an in-between option, where your sims will autonomously only do things that are necessary, not dancing together with the kids or going outside in the rain to play catch

The way sims seem to see the bathroom as a great socialising place

Sims sleeping in beds in the wrong room. I do use the lock door thing but it's difficult when one of your sims shares a room with toddlers, also I like the child siblings to be able to enter each other's rooms but just not sleep in each other's beds

Sims standing by the wardrobe after getting dressed, in the way of other sims who you want to get dressed too, so you have to get the first sim to go to another spot

Being unable to view both downstairs and upstairs at the same time, like a dolls house

The kids stove being a real easy bake oven instead of just a toy stove to play with

Sims talking through to other sims using a teddy bear, then placing the teddy bear in some random place facing a wall so they can't pick it up again

Appliances and other things breaking every 5 seconds

The computer. I feel my sims need a computer but once there's a computer in the house it's all they ever do is go on the computer to play SSX3

When the parents keep playing with the kid's remote controlled car instead of cooking dinner

When the sims keep leaving the bird cage door open and the bird flies free and you never see it again

When you put a toddler on the potty to potty-train it, and it comes straight off but you can't put it back on until the parent has emptied it, which takes ages as they whine about the smell, and by then the toddler has soiled its diaper

When the teenager keeps putting the toddler to bed. It's the PARENT'S job!!

When you put the toddler into the high chair ready to be fed but as soon as you do the older sims take it back out again for no reason

 

[Ken]

My pet peeves in the Sims 2:-


The fridge suddenly running out of stock, usually at the most inconvenient times

Adults autonomously dancing together with the kids and the irritating noises the kids make when they do so

The fact that you can't get your sims drunk

The ugly, immortal social worker coming to take all your kids away if they get too hot or too cold from playing outside, so you can only have them play outside for a short while, which is unrealistic

The sims having wants that are hard to achieve

The headmaster never being impressed with the home no matter how hard you try

Being unable to call sims if they are in the sim bin because they don't have a phone. Can't the game just make out that sims in the sim bin are as good as being homed from the perspective of your current family you are playing?

Sims taking ages and ages to clean their teeth and keep doing it several times a day

Sims keep bathing the toddlers even when they don't need to be bathed. I usually just buy a shower when I have toddlers in the house

Sim toddlers. I don't know why but I hate them, they're not cute, they're just ugly and annoying (my opinion only)

Sims who keep autonomously splashing in puddles or playing in leaves

The fact that you can't sit toddlers on the couch, not even on an older sim's knee

Teaching a toddler to talk or sing a nursery rhyme but after it has learnt it still only babbles and can't actually speak or sing

Santa bringing a gift that they have already got. You'd have thought the game would make that more original, like having Santa bring a toy that you cannot buy in the sim catalogue

Christmas being called winter festival or whatever it is. Seems exclusive if you're from Australia...

Turning the free will on will mean the sims will autonomously do the most irritating things, but turning free will off will mean they will just stand there until you ask them to do something, which I find creepy. What I'd like is an in-between option, where your sims will autonomously only do things that are necessary, not dancing together with the kids or going outside in the rain to play catch

The way sims seem to see the bathroom as a great socialising place

Sims sleeping in beds in the wrong room. I do use the lock door thing but it's difficult when one of your sims shares a room with toddlers, also I like the child siblings to be able to enter each other's rooms but just not sleep in each other's beds

Sims standing by the wardrobe after getting dressed, in the way of other sims who you want to get dressed too, so you have to get the first sim to go to another spot

Being unable to view both downstairs and upstairs at the same time, like a dolls house

The kids stove being a real easy bake oven instead of just a toy stove to play with

Sims talking through to other sims using a teddy bear, then placing the teddy bear in some random place facing a wall so they can't pick it up again

Appliances and other things breaking every 5 seconds

The computer. I feel my sims need a computer but once there's a computer in the house it's all they ever do is go on the computer to play SSX3

When the parents keep playing with the kid's remote controlled car instead of cooking dinner

When the sims keep leaving the bird cage door open and the bird flies free and you never see it again

When you put a toddler on the potty to potty-train it, and it comes straight off but you can't put it back on until the parent has emptied it, which takes ages as they whine about the smell, and by then the toddler has soiled its diaper

When the teenager keeps putting the toddler to bed. It's the PARENT'S job!!

When you put the toddler into the high chair ready to be fed but as soon as you do the older sims take it back out again for no reason

Please forgive my ignorance, but what is a sim?

 

[tree]

what is a sim?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sims_(video_game)
Kind of like playing pretend with dolls or stuffed toys, but video game style,
not hands on posing and doing the voices yourself.

 

[Ken]

I am very sensitive to disruption and can be driven to meltdown or lockup when people are being disruptive.

I also gross out easily. I really hate it if the handle of my eating utensil falls into the food.

My wife does the cooking and I wash dishes. She has no problem with handles in the food or food smeared all over her hands which then transfers to everything she touches - all the cabinet handles, door knobs fridge - everything. This grosses me out.

Also, the dishes she hands me to be washed has all the utensil handles in the muck.

Many of my pet peeves are just elements of life that I have to endure.

 

[Ken]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sims_(video_game)
Kind of like playing pretend with dolls or stuffed toys, but video game style,
not hands on posing and doing the voices yourself.

I always thought a sim was a memory card that is often used in cameras or other electronic equipment, but I knew that didn't match up with how it was used in the post.

I'm afraid I still can't relate the post use of the word sim to a game. ????

Sorry, I confuse easily.

 

[tree]

In this case "sim" refers to "simulating" action.
https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/Sim

Moving characters around.
Acting out stories with them.

It's a game the same way as when children play with dolls
or make their trucks & cars talk.

 

[Ken]

In this case "sim" refers to "simulating" action.
https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/Sim

Moving characters around.
Acting out stories with them.

It's a game the same way as when children play with dolls
or make their trucks & cars talk.

Thanks for that. I guess that is concept I have trouble comprehending.
Sometimes I think I may be confused, but am not sure.

 

[Misty Avich]

I always thought a sim was a memory card that is often used in cameras or other electronic equipment, but I knew that didn't match up with how it was used in the post.

I'm afraid I still can't relate the post use of the word sim to a game. ????

Sorry, I confuse easily.

The Sims is quite a well-known game that has been around since the early 2000s.