Cool Google logos, and my real pet peeves

[vilakins]

Look at Google if it's the 2nd where you are! Happy birthday. Dr Seuss! To see old special logos, have a look here. They go back to 1999 and there are quite a few I've missed. My favourites from last year are Magritte's birthday, The Large Hadron Collider, the 50th Anniversary of Nasa, and the Lego one. :-)

In a recent survey, I couldn't think of my pet peeves off-hand (which is a positive thing), and picked people openly chewing gum as there was a gum question and I've been twice deeply disgusted by American women chewing with wide-open mouths while talking to me and doing a Powerpoint presentation respectively. However two people do not a peeve make, and I didn't want to offend those who chew gum nicely.

Now I've had time to think, here are my real peeves.

The police helicopter. I've mentioned it before--the frequent overflying, the noise pollution, and the flying so low that it shakes my tchatchkes and Daleks--but I recently heard they keep the thing in the air constantly or they'd lose funding. It goes to anything, even domestic disturbances. It drives me crazy.

Shaking hands. OK, I know it's to prove I don't have a weapon in my right hand, but it's such an efficient way to pass on germs. I've even had people with streaming colds apologise--then hold out their hand. Ewwww. I'm sure I've caught most of my colds from this practice. How about bringing in a nice polite Japanese-style bow?

People who park right by the ATM because they can't be bothered parking in a proper space and walking a few steps. Also, people who drive into parking areas via the exit because they're so damned lazy. Being old does not excuse you.

Comments

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

If I can comment on the police helicopters and the noise (I may have done it already): twice a month, the municipal office follows the book and tries how the sirens work. I know it but every time I jump, my heart starts beating and I am SCARED. The sound slices in your head like a knife!I am not a war child but this is really horrible...

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

They did that every few weeks at my last work too, and even though I was warned, it shocked me and hurt my ears. I suppose it's meant to. :-P

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

I love the Google logos, there are loads I've missed there.

I dislike chewing gum on the whole, but do have some cinnamon gum myself sometimes, so I don't feel i can say much.

The police helicopter problem seems to be universal, I've known it pretty much everywhere I've lived. Not looking for me, I stress

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

My peeve is people who walk slowly in such a way as to block the pavement. I don't mind if you walk more slowly than I do; most people do. What I do mind is people who do it four abreast so I have to go onto the road to pass them. *glares at students*

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Or people who chat in supermarkets, blocking the aisle. They annoy me too, but not as much as a woman who spent about 15 minutes choosing a pizza so I couldn't get near the one item I wanted even after going off and getting everything else. Finally I had to say "excuse me" and reach past her, and she had the cheek to get annoyed. "Couldn't you wait?"
"I did. And I know what I want."

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Ah but you have double glazing and stone or brick houses. We don't. The noise is dreadful and drives me spare. I have to put earplugs in at night to sleep if it comes over.

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

My sympathies about the helicopter, I know how loud they can be without double glazing, I suffered them in Newport every other week and that was bad enough. My pet peeve with drivers is not signalling at a roundabout,more precisely the one on to the by pass here, I am not a mind reader I want to know which way you are going before I pull out. Many is the time I have sat there because the on coming car is not siganlling, ie going straight over and has right of wat only to have it turn left into the village and I am then stuck for another 5 minutes because all the one after him are going straight on. And people coming to a parking lot through the exit are not only lazy but down right dangerous, Beth almost ran into one saturday as we were leaving the Blackwood car park.

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

oh do we now? I just left a house of single glazing and wattle and daub ;0) I don't know what percentage has double glazing, but it certainly isn't universal.

But I know what you mean, and I'm only teasing. It's unfair

[kalinda001.livejournal.com]

That police helicopter sounds extremely annoying.

Shaking hands...totally agree on that. Hands are very bad for passing on germs. Another pet peeve of mine is people who are very sick but still insist on coming to work. It may be a matter of pride and wishing to keep up your own productivity but it exposes everyone else to your germs and potentially making even more people sick and unable to work.

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

And the ones who get just inside the entrance and then stop to consider the first display with their trolley stopping anyone else getting in.

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

Youngest lives under the flight path for the air ambulance coming in with accident victims and army casualties. She says she's used to it now but it always takes me by surprise when I'm visiting.

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

People who park right by the ATM because they can't be bothered parking in a proper space and walking a few steps.

This is one of my biggest pet peeves ever. Because my bank has a very small parking lot. Which means that a) there's maybe four feet between the ATM and the nearest parking space, and b) if you sit your goddamned car directly in front of the ATM, nobody can pull out of the parking lot until you leave. I swear, there is a special level of hell reserved for these people.

[crycraven.livejournal.com]

Ah, I hate everyone. Walking near me, getting in my way in the shops, chating in the aisles...and yet, if anyone wants to say anything to a random starnger they always pick me, ignoring my HUGE headphones. I must look friendly or summink, growl.

I chew gum. But that's cos I smoke. And I don't want to shake hands with anyone, either. Bowing is nice. I also like the Thai Wai gesture as thank you.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It seems everyone I know in the UK has double glazing, even my Welsh friend in her tiny miner's cottage I stayed in. I didn't realise they even built with wood over there. Some of the snobbier type come here and sneer at all our wooden houses, thinking they look temporary and cheap. Your mother's however certainly isn't temporary; it's older than anything here, I think, and probably is better sound proofed.

I assume you have double glazing in your new place. I'm amazed they don't have lots of people offering it here, because our houses don't have central heating either and are so cold and damp in winter. Greg found a place that does plastic-mounted windows you can attach on the inside, and we might have a go when we can afford it.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

We're supposed to indicate turning and exiting a roundabout, but about half don't bother, and I always wait till I see what they're doing. OTOH a woman once almost ran into me when she did indicate at a crossroad that she was turning--and went straight ahead into my right turn. [rolls eyes]

Yeah, the parking lot people are dangerous as well as annoying. I think they do it because they can see a park and want to grab it, the lazy sods. The one I use most has a lot of trees and you wouldn't see them till you were almost on them. Greg got out of the car recently to yell at a person coming out of an entrance and blocking two of us wanting to go in, and hence the whole road. I'm not sure how much English he understood, but he'd have to know "entrance" and "exit" to get a licence, and the arrows on the ground are bloody obvious.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I hate that too. "I'm so dedicated to my work, I'll come in and disgust you all and make you all sick too." It happens a lot here too.

I'm not sure how not to shale hands. If people offer them, one has to. I never initiate though.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

At least it goes straight over and doesn't hover around for 30 minutes to two hours. I could live with that.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

The car parks at ours are further away, but the closest would be the far end of this room, and there are usually plenty. It makes the access one lane though and causes problems that way. The laziness and arrogance alone disgust me though.

And I get really angry with people who use the handicapped parks and are clearly not, like the woman with kids.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Bwahahaha! I have days like that too where everyone in the supermarket is slow and stupid and I wonder if I need some sort of patience therapy.

As for the random stranger thing, usually they're OK; I don't mind talking. Recently I've met two old ladies in the cat food aisle who have cats that are 20 years old and still going strong. :-)

Last week though in the loos at the mall, this woman started going on to me about the heat, then segued to the bush fires with ghoulish dwelling on how people died--and followed me out. I felt sick and I couldn't get away fast enough. What is wrong with people like that with their love of disaster? A couple of guys used to do that at work too, and I used to leave the room till the conversation was likely to be over.

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

Yes, it swoops over on the landing approach so isn't there for long.

Two houses ago we were under one of the approaches to Manchester airport and I hated the big jets coming over. Then at the last house we had the military jets training, much lower and louder, but gone almost at once. I much preferred the military.