Blogger, for just eating my excellent Pet Peeves post. Now I have to write it again, and I'll have to do it fast so it won't be as good.
Restaurant owners who serve the customers themselves and don't actually employ any waiters or waitresses but who still have a tip jar at the counter. Fuck you, tips are for the wait staff you would otherwise not be paying a living wage to, not you. ~~ Specific offender deleted because this page seems to be a Google magnet and PEI is a small, small place. ~~
When people place more importance on a rock star's personality and biography than to actually listening to music. Go watch “Pimp My Ride” and stop calling yourself a music fan.
Music fans who try to crowbar their out-of-place favourite band that doesn't fit with their chosen genre into it to justify their taste to their peer group. E.g.., quotes like "yeah, but they're [punk | prog. | metal] at heart”. This is an especially common offense among Rush fans who are largely afraid to say they like anything other than Rush without justifying their choice by saying “yeah, but they have some prog elements to their music.”
Any fan of a particular band who thinks that band's worst song is still better than any other band's best work and will hunt down tapes of their idol taking a shit just to have everything they can find.
ATMs, digital cameras, cell phones and every other piece of electronics that have to reward their Pavlovian users with loud beeps every time they push a button. This will soon lead to a culture of helpless, stimulation-hungry infants, as I mentioned in a comment below my ATM dream post.
Charlottetown businesses who think you should put up with high prices and shitty service in the name of supporting local businesses. There are local businesses that deserve support, but if I can get a better price at an online store, and have the order ship to me before you can get it from your supplier, you're probably in the wrong business.
When movies and television shows place too much emphasis on sex and relationships because it's easy to create seemingly compelling stories by just showing lots of good-looking characters doing their mating dances.
Blog snobs who think anyone gives a shit that they host their site on their own instead of using Blogspot. I hope you get Slashdotted and raped by your ISP for the extra bandwidth costs.
Wolf Blitzer, and every other CNN host who won't call out an interviewee on a lie if he was told the sky was green.
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