Your pet peeve, technical or otherwise.

[Muttley Snickers]

My pet peeve are flashing banner adds, they are terribly distracting and actually make me feel sick. (Inserts vomit emoticon). 

Furthermore, I would never purchase a product or service from any company who uses such annoying marketing techniques.   

[jonovid]

My pet peeve are flashing banner adds, they are terribly distracting and actually make me feel sick. (Inserts vomit emoticon). 

Furthermore, I would never purchase a product or service from any company who uses such annoying marketing techniques.   

their was this web 1.0 video game forum. were it was ok to post animated gif's as past of your user profile.
including personal animated banner designs that show on every post. 
hy I sell t shirts other stuff too! flashing banner!
pages of this forum looked like time square, as user's tried to outdo each other. 

[Labrat101]

Interesting but what has animated banners and tee shirts have in common. 🤔

[jonovid]

Interesting but what has animated banners and tee shirts have in common. 🤔

animated banners promoting merchandise on the old game maker forum.    YoYo Games from 2007

[SilverSolder]

My pet peeve are flashing banner adds, they are terribly distracting and actually make me feel sick. (Inserts vomit emoticon). 

Furthermore, I would never purchase a product or service from any company who uses such annoying marketing techniques.   

My browser can be set to only play an animation once...   one "play" is OK with me, but not a looping distraction!

[Ed.Kloonk]

Telcos that require a reason for the change before they will submit your request.

[james_s]

Telcos that require a reason for the change before they will submit your request.

"I want to" is not reason enough?

I suppose you could embellish and say something like "I've been sentenced to 10 years in prison and have no further need for phone service."

[GlennSprigg]

(I'm just here for the 'Electronics' but... )
I love watching the shows on TV about Crime & Police Chases etc etc...
And without fail, (especially the English shows), they say something like....
"We got this 'Gentleman' on the 'Floor'...  (OK, i'ts called the 'Ground' !!!  )
I don't mean one has to say "this dickhead" or this "druggie asshole" etc etc, but maybe...
"this guy", "man", "bloke", "suspect etc etc... but "Gentleman"!!  Argh...   

[Nominal Animal]

"We got this 'Gentleman' on the 'Floor'...  (OK, i'ts called the 'Ground' !!!  )

Bri'ish English is Bri'ish English, my Aussie mate.

Because of the era we live in, translated from Finnish that would be "We got this Customer on the ground..."
Now that, everyone being "a customer", gets my goat.

[PlainName]

Cyclists who expect me, a pedestrian, to step into the road so they can ride past on the footpath.

[Sal Ammoniac]

(I'm just here for the 'Electronics' but... )
I love watching the shows on TV about Crime & Police Chases etc etc...
And without fail, (especially the English shows), they say something like....
"We got this 'Gentleman' on the 'Floor'...  (OK, i'ts called the 'Ground' !!!  )
I don't mean one has to say "this dickhead" or this "druggie asshole" etc etc, but maybe...
"this guy", "man", "bloke", "suspect etc etc... but "Gentleman"!!  Argh...   

In these shows, how come the bad guy, when he runs out of ammunition, always throws his gun at the good guy?

[Circlotron]

When in movies like Star Wars they have all this unimaginably super duper technology but they still can’t shoot straight at each other with their laser beams or whatever. They take at least 50,000 shots to get one single hit.

[Sal Ammoniac]

When in movies like Star Wars they have all this unimaginably super duper technology but they still can’t shoot straight at each other with their laser beams or whatever. They take at least 50,000 shots to get one single hit.

That only applies to the bad guys. The good guys almost always hit what they're aiming at, usually with the first shot.

[Ed.Kloonk]

When in movies like Star Wars they have all this unimaginably super duper technology but they still can’t shoot straight at each other with their laser beams or whatever. They take at least 50,000 shots to get one single hit.

That only applies to the bad guys. The good guys almost always hit what they're aiming at, usually with the first shot.

Han shot first.

[vk6zgo]

When in movies like Star Wars they have all this unimaginably super duper technology but they still can’t shoot straight at each other with their laser beams or whatever. They take at least 50,000 shots to get one single hit.

And their radios sound like WW2 AM with carbon microphones!

[Alex Eisenhut]

Apostrophe plural's.
(runs away)

[vk6zgo]

(I'm just here for the 'Electronics' but... )
I love watching the shows on TV about Crime & Police Chases etc etc...
And without fail, (especially the English shows), they say something like....
"We got this 'Gentleman' on the 'Floor'...  (OK, i'ts called the 'Ground' !!!  )
I don't mean one has to say "this dickhead" or this "druggie asshole" etc etc, but maybe...
"this guy", "man", "bloke", "suspect etc etc... but "Gentleman"!!  Argh...   

How about in "Midsomer Murders", where the baddy sets up some elaborate trap, like a falling bookcase, & the victim, instead of jumping out of the way, just stands there & gets squished.

[Labrat101]

And why do people when chased by a car run down the middle of the road . .🤔. and the scene lasts about 5 minutes.. who can run that fast.  ..
Most cars can do in excess of 40 Mph in first gear . .. new guiness book of records .🤪

[srb1954]

When in movies like Star Wars they have all this unimaginably super duper technology but they still can’t shoot straight at each other with their laser beams or whatever. They take at least 50,000 shots to get one single hit.

That only applies to the bad guys. The good guys almost always hit what they're aiming at, usually with the first shot.

Quite often the good guys seem to hit 2 or 3 of the bad guys with the one shot.

[Labrat101]

When in movies like Star Wars they have all this unimaginably super duper technology but they still can’t shoot straight at each other with their laser beams or whatever. They take at least 50,000 shots to get one single hit.

That only applies to the bad guys. The good guys almost always hit what they're aiming at, usually with the first shot.

Quite often the good guys seem to hit 2 or 3 of the bad guys with the one shot.

The other thing is That the aliens always have the cool weapons shooting some Green plasma  .
 After finery killing the Bad Alien They never pick up the better weapon     ..
 Hell if that was me in a real life scenario I would take the better technology .
 An post it to Dave for a tear Down     

[james_s]

Cyclists who expect me, a pedestrian, to step into the road so they can ride past on the footpath.

Or cyclists that ride in the car lane adjacent to a perfectly good bike path we spent millions of tax dollars to build. Or right on the line dividing the two so that you can't safely pass them without risking clipping them with your mirror. I cycle myself and I don't like to associate with cyclists.

[andy3055]

 Talking about cycling,  it is maddening to walk on side walks in Berlin. The cyclists have the right of way it seems.
When you park on the side and want to get down from the car, it is very dangerous.

[SilverSolder]

Talking about cycling,  it is maddening to walk on side walks in Berlin. The cyclists have the right of way it seems.
When you park on the side and want to get down from the car, it is very dangerous.

They don't have the right of way on the sidewalk, at least not in most European countries.  They are supposed to be on the bicycle path if there is one, or on the road if there isn't.

[CatalinaWOW]

In Copenhagen the bike path was immediately adjacent to the parking zone, between that zone and the sidewalk.  As an ignorant American my first time exiting the passenger side of a car I nearly caused an accident and got some very rude remarks.  The bikes absolutely do have the right of way in the bike path, and there is no way to exit a car and get to the sidewalk without crossing that path.

[Monkeh]

Talking about cycling,  it is maddening to walk on side walks in Berlin. The cyclists have the right of way it seems.
When you park on the side and want to get down from the car, it is very dangerous.

They don't have the right of way on the sidewalk, at least not in most European countries.  They are supposed to be on the bicycle path if there is one, or on the road if there isn't.

Nobody has right of way at all. There's my pet peeve for the day.