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Pet Peeves

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Welcome to Pet Peeves, where the little things that annoy you are welcome.

Ever notice the thousands of posts and comments out there that just grind your gears? You always want to say something about how much whatever it is sucks, and you hate it. But, then you're going off topic and get people mad at you.

Well, don't do that. Come here instead! Tell us about your pet peeve!


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Try to remember that any pet peeve you have is likely something other beings do with no ill intent. So try to keep it about you, not them. Explain why it annoys you, rather than just ranting about other people, there's already communities for that kind of thing.

Example: Turn signals being left on. Annoying as hell, because now you don't know if they're really signaling to turn, if it's something they didn't know they did, etc, so now you have to pay extra attention instead of focusing on your own driving and navigation.

Don't just complain about how stupid the people must be, how inconsiderate. Keep the focus on the inconvenience itself.


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It's not even just Americans who do it. I've frequently been yelled at online about what is happening in the Untied States with people saying things like "your president" and "your government". Since they word it in a way that implies it isn't their government, they're presumably not American. I've seen other non-americans yelled at in the same way by other non-americans. And no, it's not fair for them to assume I'm American because I'm talking about American issues, because they themselves are also non-americans in conversations about American issues.

My favourite example is last summer when I expressed my sorrow about merchandise being sold for Aligator Alcatraz by saying "humanity has failed". Someone responded with "no, you failed, don't lump the rest of us in with your fuckup" and proceeded to have a long rant about how my country has failed and they will avoid my country so they're not supporting nazis or risking the nazis getting them. So it's pretty clear they weren't American, why were they assuming I was? If you're a non-american participating in discussion about American politics, why do you assume everyone else is American?

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[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The five-eyes nations are all shitty surveillance states to some degree.

[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There's absolutely no comparison between Australian society and the bullshit that happens in 'Murica

They've been convinced that because morons with single-digit IQs can own firearms, they're somehow free

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 1 points 3 weeks ago

Oh. Totally agree there. The US is a festering wound.