Share your small sociopolitical pet peeves here...I'm not looking for any arguements, I am just looking for a list of "less important" political issues that get on your nerevs....

Mine:

1) people who litter, especially those who throw their cig butts out their car windows.

2) people who make grand statements like: "Socialism is the way to go" but then lack any concrete answers to my questions about how to go about transitioning from what we have to their little utopian world

3) people who don't vote

4) people who resort to spouting dogmatic claptrap when backed into a corner

5) people with blinders on who don't see that their knee jerk tax cut votes are directly affecting real people in real need (disabled people, children)

6) any repeat drunk driving offenders

7) the dismal way veterans (esp disabled ones) are treated in this country

8 ) people's fear of words, specifically "bad" words

9) the obesity probelm in the US and the propensity for people to blame McDonald's and society for their weight probelm

10) the inequities of the health care system (okay, that is a big one)

that is all for now...

Fish emblems on cars, and all variations thereof.

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plus the male and/or female "Calvins" kneeling in front of a cross. lots of all of the above out in my neck of the woods.


I guess it wouldn't bother me so much except that, almost without fail, drivers of vehicles so adorned tend to drive very aggressively, even rudely.

I mean, wtf?

1. Southerners

2. People who act like the Republican party is Christ's party

3. Ribbons. Any and all ribbons

4. People who act like I stomp on puppies because I eat meat.

5. People who ask me to explain the complex political message of my t-shirt

6. People who use the Town Hall meetings to voice their personal grievances with their garbage man

7. People who don't wait their turn at Town Hall meetings

8. Town Council members who don't make people wait their turn at Town Hall meetings

9. People who say "they should" or "why don't they" but never do anything, PARTICULARLY at the local level

10. Streets renamed MLK

1.a) especially into the dry grass along the freeway - all summer long around here (I'm sure everywhere else as well) grass- & brushfires sprout during rush hour, snarling traffic for miles.

GIT - R - DONE!!

I'm way too much of an asshole-ish driver to ever put a fish on the back of my car.

Why repeat? you don't have a problem with their first offence?

once can sometimes be called an honest mistake, twice (or more) and you are really in trouble.

my best bud got a dui on a golf cart in a campground during a music festival (10000 lakes festival, fyi) last summer. he didn't drink and drive (cars) before that, and certainly hasn't since.

I think I'd be a nicer driver if I sported a sushi fish.

I'm not a big fan of religious zealousy/obnoxiousness OR sacrelige (sp?) So I'm not a fan of any of the fishies.

I'm a big fan of sacrilege plus I'm pretty obnoxious, so these are right up my alley.

on that happy note, a large pet peeve of mine is people who are really nice at first - until they pull out the "you must come to my church" sales pitch. then the pressure continues every time you see them .. "no" is not in their vocabulary, evidently

I just hate the feeling anyone is trying to convert me - that's just way too personal a thing for me to want to talk about with someone who's evangelical.

another pet peeve in a similar vein: strangers who try to tell me ways I should change my life - believe me, I haven't asked them but I hear it anyway. either it's "go back to school" or "have kids" .. do I look that confused & lost?

maybe it's the blonde thing.

I'm with those, along with

- people who are willing to kill others as a way of supporting their view of "life" (example: someone who is willing to kill or believes a doctor should be killed for performing abortions)or (example: "against the right to choose but for the death penalty).

No, I get both all of the time. They look at you, decide to judge on appearence, and think they are doing you a frickin' favor by extolling the virtues of whatever it is they think you should be doing. F that. I am who I am, and if they aren't interested and think I should be something else, its there loss to not be accepting.

The "go back to school" one is actually sensible insomuch as it is assumed that once you have a degree (of some type), more economic opportunities will be open to you. My experience is that it is actually about 70% true.

The "have kids" part is a totally separate matter - and I am almost at the age where people might actually STOP telling me that I should.... (or at least, I hope I'm at an age where they stop telling me, because I'm fricking sick of hearing it).

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I don't mind this much if they're not absolutely absurd in their presentation. Like, for example, why is there a one-f-word limit in PG-13 movies? What, it's alright for teenagers to here the f-word once, but if it's said twice in the same two hour span, it's automatically bad for them?

anyone can make a mistake.

but it is more about the legal system that allows people to have 60 drunk driving arrests and still have a licence. I don't get that.

And then this one:



I am seriously thining of taking up guerilla public service announcement signage...on ramps to the highways nearby that always back up in the AM and so are littered profusely with butts.

I am seriously thining of taking up guerilla public service announcement signage...on ramps to the highways nearby that always back up in the AM and so are littered profusely with butts.[/quote]

When you move out west, it's no longer a litter problem... It becomes a fire problem. Then money has to be spent putting out their fires, and if the worst case scenario occurs, the fire spreads and lives are put at risk. Just because they can't use a stupid ashtray.