What is your Biggest Pet Peeve

Originally Posted by Abraham

I too have ringing in my ears so in every room I have ceiling fans turned on and that helps dampen the ringing, somewhat...

One fairly effective thing to block the ringing is hearing aids, which I have - and don't wear.

I did for about six months, but having something stuck in my ears for hours on end was too much.

I put them away.

I had the same experience with my first hearing aid, put away and didn't use much. Finally sucked it up and went to a different audiologist and got behind the ear open canal aids for both ears. Made all the difference in the world. My left ear is so shot that I have since gone to a more closed ear piece, but it isn't near as distracting as the totally in the ear aid was. Maybe that is something you can look into.

Originally Posted by Fjallhrafn

Shouldn't take that long, even without tinnitus.

World's Quietest Room Will Drive You Crazy in 30 Minutes : Discovery News.

Excerpt: "It’s so quiet, you can hear your own organs: your heart, stomach, even your ears, which make a tiny amount of noise. It turns out that it’s not an especially pleasant experience, especially in the dark. The longest anyone has ever spent alone in the chamber? Forty-five minutes."

You know, I completely forgot about hearing your body. That would not bother me nearly as much as the damn ringing. I hate it. It used to keep me up for hours.

Certain kinds of people who think it is cool to share their thumping stereos and objectional music during quiet periods.

It is annoying. If I listen to my music I use headphones and play my car radio at a reasonable level.

But trying to relax and cop some Zs while someone is booming your house with racism and profanity can make one very, very cross.

After a certain time of day I just reach my F, MF, N, and B limit.
Oh, believe you me, I can swear and blaspheme with the best but struggle not to. And hearing it booming into my house, thumping my walls, and disturbing my "Wa", if you will, well....it simply gets to me.

Originally Posted by Endur

You know, I completely forgot about hearing your body. That would not bother me nearly as much as the damn ringing. I hate it. It used to keep me up for hours.

I can't sleep with a fan or a metronome. Anything to take the edge off

Bathrooms sinks with faucets that juuuuust baaaaaarely clear the back of the sink leaving you to smash your hands flat, knuckles against the backside of the sink to try and rinse them off.

People that print so badly that I honetly don't believe they give a rat's ass about concealing a damn thing. Yes Mr. Wanna-be Security Contractor, you are bad arse in your golf shirt, cargo pocketed sand colored wranglers and desert boots with full print outlined glock in holster strong side and 2 spare mags in their holster on your weak side that I got to stare and in amusement the whole time i was next to you. So did every damned other person around you looking at you, then your 'concealed' firearm and mags, then at you again...

People who claim to be free market capitalists but are anti immigration. That's my biggest pet peeve.

And if you don't understand why, then read up on Regulation and what Free Market Capitalism mean.

Originally Posted by sevenhelmet

Also people who use the apostrophe to indicate a plural instead of using it correctly to indicate possessive. "Gun's for sale" = WRONG. "Guns for sale" = CORRECT.

Sorry guys, I had to- this one really bothers me.

Ahhh, a kindred soul. That one REALLY, REALLY bothers me too. Along with the whole they're/their/there and to/too thing.

Apostrophes should only be used for contractions, to represent possession, in special punctuation cases, or in foreign languages.


Here's one (that may have already been posted): People who build an AR and cheap out on the important parts in order to dress it up to make it look "Tier One". I saw a build once where the guy used a no-name, 4140, unlined barrel, a $70 crap BCG, a no-name LPK, and then decked it out with a Geissele trigger, DD rail, Gunfighter charging handle, BAD-ASS short throw safety, Norgon Ambi-Catch, Magpul MBUS pro BUIS, and Aimpoint T-1. I mean - if your BUIS costs more than your barrel, you should rethink your build strategy.

Originally Posted by Mac5.56

People who claim to be free market capitalists but are anti immigration. That's my biggest pet peeve.

And if you don't understand why, then read up on Regulation and what Free Market Capitalism mean.

People like me are "anti-immigration" in the sense that we are against subsidized immigration. Subsidized immigration is not free market. It is coerced by the state. The immigration of times past was free market. Old school immigrants didn't get handouts, housing, food, health care, benefits, etc. upon arrival. They had to pull their own weight.

If we reformed immigration to make it like it was before, then we'd be accused of being anti-immigration too.
By the way, note that free market capitalism itself is a cultural development. If you open the door to literally anyone, your free market capitalism will vanish in a few generations. The rest of the world (i.e. where your immigrants are coming from) is not free market anything. They are usually theocracies, dictatorships, etc. with cronyist Socialism.

Originally Posted by Benito

People like me are "anti-immigration" in the sense that we are against subsidized immigration. Subsidized immigration is not free market. It is coerced by the state. The immigration of times past was free market. Old school immigrants didn't get handouts, housing, food, health care, benefits, etc. upon arrival. They had to pull their own weight.

If we reformed immigration to make it like it was before, then we'd be accused of being anti-immigration too.
By the way, note that free market capitalism itself is a cultural development. If you open the door to literally anyone, your free market capitalism will vanish in a few generations. The rest of the world (i.e. where your immigrants are coming from) is not free market anything. They are usually theocracies, dictatorships, etc. with cronyist Socialism.

^ This.

My pet peve is people who confuse issues and distort facts to suit their limited understanding of issues.

Most people on here when they speak of opposing immigration are pretty much in opposition to "illegal" immigration as well as our complete and utter refusal to enforce the laws we have on the books.

Exactly how many countries do you think you'd be welcome to stay in past your visa expiration or worse, without any papers at all and even given amnesty on the backs of taxpayers like me?

The answer is one.