Things that peeve you in 2025?

[westg]

Mobile phones into the gym. Treadmill or bike you get a pass. People lounging on gym machinery phone in hand is so backward for me. Why would you? Then I see the same filthy animals put their phone on the gym floor. Gross! 

[BrightonCorgi]

6 hours ago, westg said:

Mobile phones into the gym. Treadmill or bike you get a pass. People lounging on gym machinery phone in hand is so backward for me. Why would you? Then I see the same filthy animals put their phone on the gym floor. Gross!  

Forgot about that one! 

I do not like phones in the gym. My gym, several have their phones on a tripod filming their workout. I keep my phone on silent in the locker. The world can wait until I am done working out.

[westg]

6 hours ago, BrightonCorgi said:

Forgot about that one! 

I do not like phones in the gym. My gym, several have their phones on a tripod filming their workout. I keep my phone on silent in the locker. The world can wait until I am done working out. 

Absolutely. We have that as well people recording themselves. Today I did a full work whilst one person was just lounging on there phone on one piece of gym machinery.  

[westg]

The last thing I want, with or near me in the gym, is my f*****g phone.  In fact I can't wait for the day I not longer need one. 

[joeypots]

User names and passwords.

It's better than it used to be but I have one account that uses a system that is particularly obtuse.

This peeve goes into the don't get me started bin. 

 

 

 

[Habanoschris]

13 hours ago, pohlmad said:

I am peeved by extreme feelings towards someone because their opinion does/does not align with theirs. 

x2

[chasy]

Living in downtown Chicago, crime really peeves me. It's been pretty depressing to see my pocket of the city deteriorate as much as it has since Covid. 95% of people are living life like normal people and 5% are ruining something that was once great. Theft, shooting, car jackings, random robberies and muggings. Store closures up and down Michigan Ave.

The US is a 'high trust' society. We take for granted all the luxuries we benefit from being a 'high trust' society. All it takes is a small number of people willing to violate trust in order to cause chaos for the masses. It's been quite something to witness first hand and the knock on effects are real and consequential.

I'm hopeful we can turn the corner on it all. But I'm a severe optimist. 

[Chibearsv]

Pottery Barn

If my wife keeps buying that crap, either she puts it together, or I throw it in the trash.

[RKPStogie]

16 hours ago, Redgoldband said:

I'm borrowing this (and any other suggestions you may have to keep kids off phones/tablets)! My wife and I are fighting the good fight on this with our 6 year-old, who also happens to be a tech/engineering wiz. 

I will also borrow this! We’ve had success with our 11 y/o daughter but my 8 y/o son is a different matter!

[RKPStogie]

Self check out lines! If I’m doing the work, then give me the employee discount!

[99call]

Ticking off all 14 cornerstones of a certain political movement, and the possibility of aimlessly repeating the worst human tragedies of the past. 

Other than that, everything's just swell!

[BrightonCorgi]

11 hours ago, RKPStogie said:

Self check out lines! If I’m doing the work, then give me the employee discount!

Add to that; tipping. At least in the US, the tipping culture. It's out of hand. The new kiosks ask for tips on stuff that never warranted one.

[westg]

The world has indeed gone quite mad. So easily to be offended. So sensitive. 

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[LordAnubis]

Jobs that don’t offer part time or flexible hours or work from home. Crazy! I don’t understand people who have employees they trust so little that they feel they need to be helicopter micromanaged. 

[WarriorPrincess]

Judges who reduce the sentences for the youth criminal offenders, be it for murder, rape and so forth when it has been proven beyond doubt they are guilty. It would be a different matter if the crime was committed against one of the family members of the Judges !

Cruelty to any animals.  

 

[chasy]

3 hours ago, WarriorPrincess said:

Judges who reduce the sentences for the youth criminal offenders, be it for murder, rape and so forth when it has been proven beyond doubt they are guilty. It would be a different matter if the crime was committed against one of the family members of the Judges !

Cruelty to any animals.  

Rob you’re a lucky man! Preach!!!

[Bri Fi]

3 hours ago, WarriorPrincess said:

Judges who reduce the sentences for the youth criminal offenders, be it for murder, rape and so forth when it has been proven beyond doubt they are guilty. It would be a different matter if the crime was committed against one of the family members of the Judges !

Cruelty to any animals.  

As a cop I’ve chased stolen cars (not knowing they are driven by juveniles) and they drive more wreckless than adults. They are posting on social media during the pursuit like it’s funny. Juvenile hall won’t take them. Have to release to the parents. (Another incredible feat trying to find an adult, dad is never there. Sometimes the mom says they won’t come out.) They are laughing the whole time. Good citizens in danger. So frustrating. 

[Cigar Surgeon]

On 9/4/2025 at 9:55 AM, RKPStogie said:

Self check out lines! If I’m doing the work, then give me the employee discount!

It's wage theft, plain and simple and I'll die on that hill.

[Puros Y Vino]

So many things to choose from. The one thing that has always driven me nuts if hypocrites/hypocrisy. Nothing irks me more than those who do differently than what they preach. A good chunk of the world's problems could be solved by tackling this one alone.

[chasy]

3 hours ago, Puros Y Vino said:

So many things to choose from. The one thing that has always driven me nuts if hypocrites/hypocrisy. Nothing irks me more than those who do differently than what they preach. A good chunk of the world's problems could be solved by tackling this one alone.

Nobody likes a hypocrite.

[ayedfy]

On 9/4/2025 at 11:01 PM, westg said:

Mobile phones into the gym. Treadmill or bike you get a pass. People lounging on gym machinery phone in hand is so backward for me. Why would you? Then I see the same filthy animals put their phone on the gym floor. Gross! 

I read ebooks on my phone during workouts. Normally a page is the right length for a rest interval (two pages if a heavy lower body compound is kicking my butt). Go ahead and hate me if you wish, but last year I was reading the Iliad and I swear some of the passages psyched me up for a heavy set better than heavy metal ever could.

[Bill Hayes]

1. Job hunting in the age of A.I. for over 50's. You have to cut and paste the copy from the job ad into A.I. and ask it for the keywords then can it craft a cover letter and a CV for you then apply that to your CV just to get past the A.I. bots controlling candidate selection to cull the list down from the hundreds of fake applications. And that's just to get to first base.

2. My city Melbourne - Was once the world's most liveable city but now has lost it's charm due to mismanagement and corruption, resulting in youth crime, motorcycle gang wars over building cites and tobacco shops and the heavy taxes on small businesses in the food and entertainment industries. Most people really can't afford to leave their home to go out for a meal, even at the local pub. And don't start me on the price of beer, wine and spirits. 

3. World leaders - no comment. Don't want to get banned.

[99call]

Plastic patriots and flag shaggers in the UK. Idiots who pretend to patrol the streets "to keep communities safe", meanwhile in reality they are just getting drunk, violent, abusive, and daubing racist hateful graffiti on Chinese takeaways and British Muslim families houses. Utter, utter scum.

[mmmstogies]

The amount of young people that do not know how to spell, along with terrible grammar. One example is they use the word "to" instead of "too" E.G: It's to far.

Boils my piss.

[chasy]

Shitty cars with loud, aftermarket exhaust systems installed.