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May-2-2006 20:26

So this has ALWAYS been a pet peeve of mine; since the beginning of my Sleuthing.

*NOTE: This is not as big of one as the waiter/waitress 'fiasco' was*


Take a look at Sleuth Admin's detective page, for example.

"Politics
Order o Socrates: Good(10)
Arcanum Brthrhd: Good(10)
Cosa Nostra: Poor(-3)
Eastern Triads: Good(10)
Circle of Light: Poor(-2)
Green Hand: Good(10) "

Notice that of is "o", not "of" in Order of Socrates
Notice that Brotherhood is shortened, and the word Dies is completely absent
"La" is missing in La Cosa Nostra
Isn't it "The" Green Hand, "The" Eastern Triads?


Now I know this was done because of margin widths, but can it not be fixed in any way? It's not only annoying, but also can be confusing as to what the factions are called. Perhaps they could even be shortened to just OS, LCN, DAB, GH, CoL, and ET? (Although that would be very confusing as well)



Just something that's always bothered me.

Aug-24-2006 02:32

hmmm pet peeves:
-Parents with screaming demon children, yet parents do nothing.
-That know it all that knows nothing in lectures, but has to keep talking the
entire bloody time anyways!!!!! One in every freakin class!
-Tom Cruise (with you there Crunch)
-Neo-cons
-Rednecks -(my inlaws grrrrrrrrr How the hell that happened I don't know?)
-The guy that stares at the menu of <insert fast food chain here> for 20
minutes. Like the menu hasn't been the same for 20 freakin years!
-NASCAR -just don't get it. Want to watch a race, watch the Dakar Rally.
Now there's a freakin race! Oh you drive in circles on a closed track? These
guys drive in the Sahara for days and could DIE! Top that bubba!
-Religious Fundamentalists <all religions and sects> 'nuff said.
-The liberals that get onto tv and make the rest of us look like idiots.
-Dentists <just evil>
-That guy who claps when a waitress drops a glass.

Ok wow, I'm a pretty easy going guy. Who knew I had such anger issues? lol

Aug-24-2006 15:57

LOL Secret Squirrel! I am in a jeep and they act the same way with me! I learned very quickly that it isn't the people on the bikes that you have to watch out for it's the vehicles that are around them.

Be careful out there! We would hate for you to become Al Z's "Secret Roadkill" :D

Aug-24-2006 16:02

OH BTW...jroepel...the "Parents with screaming demon children, yet parents do nothing" I am a hair stylist and I completely understand how you feel on this one! I have to deal with at least 4 children like that during a week.

Aug-24-2006 23:13

<Gives Agent Canady a big sympathy Hug> I am so sorry you have to suffer through those little brats. Don't you just want to throw something at the parents? lol

Aug-24-2006 23:32

I' am SO with you on the "screaming demon children" one. Especially at restaurants. I hate it when you are at a nice restaurant trying to eat a peaceful meal and perahps have some good conversation with a companion, and little chlildren are running around loose all over the restaurant. I want to go SLAP their parents!!

[Warning - the following contents may not be suitable for young chilidren]

Another pet peeve is the all consuming, mind numbing, debilitating obsession of the male gender with the vast fluffiness or uterly deflated state of their [DELTED BY GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS]. I don't understand it. *shakes head in bewilderment*

Aug-25-2006 01:25

*whimpers* [DELETED BY THE GOVERNMENT] have feelings too...

some recent pet peeves:

-the hair of home schooled children
-my mother asking me if I farted when she was really just smelling my aunt's breath
-the fact that cars don't act like bikes when I'm on a bike and bikes don't act like cars when I'm in a car
-ketchuppy pad Thai
-shadows that look like they could possibly be mice
-aggressive racoons (just take your bacon and go away)
-people who call me by my last name because they don't know how to pronounce my first name
-anything associated with student loans
-the moment you realize that while summer isn't exactly over yet, it will be soon
-Celine Dion and the fact that she is rapidly overtaking the mountie as the prime Canadian icon. Really, I'd be happier if when most people thought, 'Canada' the first thing that popped into their head was an image of Keanu Reeves in a beaver suit screaming I AM THE KING OF THE WORLD!

Aug-25-2006 04:06

I will now think of Keanu first Crunch :)

what do you think thats all aboot eh?

and yes hair of home schooled children is a major problem in todays society, they should be stopped immediately...

Aug-25-2006 04:30

There was a cafe/bar/restaurant in Queenstown, NZ that banned babies and kids.
They got hauled before the UN under the Human Rights Act.
Um, ok.
Stupid PC Correct NZ.

Aug-25-2006 04:31

Political Correctness and the fact that some people are allowed to say some words but others can't. How totally GAY is that?

Aug-25-2006 07:56

jroepel i have resisted the urge to throw things at them many times. Although the things that were currently occupying my hands were not ideal objects to throw at someone (shears, clippers, hairdryers, and i can't forget the time with the HOT curling iron!)

Keanu Reeves in a beaver suit...hmmm. That will give me something to think about today! Thanks Crunchpatty! :)