Pet Peeves

[UnderseaLcpl]

Originally Posted by Admiral8Q

My pet peeve is people that use the word f**k in every sentence.

My pet peeve is f**ks who want to sabotage half of my vocabulary.

You may not appreciate the grammatical and linguistic miracle that is the f-word, but if it were not for that four-letter piece of profanity, nothing would ever get done in the military, as troops would have no way to communicate or organize.

Most people think that the most basic level of unit organization is the squad or the fire team. Technically, that is true, but in reality the basic unit of military organization is the gaggle-*******, which consists of three or more non-rates doing something completely unproductive. When two or more gaggle-*******s coalesce, they become a cluster-*******, and there is often an NCO or even an SNCO in the mix. At this point, all activity becomes counter-productive. Most military activity falls into one of these two categories.

The supreme level of military organization is the Mongolian cluster-*******, which requires the presence of field-grade officers. In actuality, it is just a bunch of cluster-*******s that are supposedly working together for a common objective. The Mongolian cluster-******* is highly unstable and is only manifested for brief periods before the officers just give up and go back to whatever it was they were doing before.

In theory, there is another level of military disorganization...I mean organization, that consists solely of officers. It is spoken of in hushed whispers throughout the ranks but none have ever seen it, and there is no f-word derivative to describe it. The only evidence of it exists in conference rooms that are occupied only by styrofoam cups with what appears to be coffee residue in them, and the occasional half-baked plan scrawled on a dry-erase board or memo pad. Judging from these "plans", it would appear that this level of disorganization is counter-counter-counter-productive, which is to say that it actually negates any accidental benefit from normal counterproductivity.

In any case, overuse of the word "*******" and all derivatives are integral to military operations, and a therefore a matter of national security. As such, your annoyance at the profane term makes you a terrorist threat. You have been reported to the authorities, sir

[krashkart]

Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl

My pet peeve is f**ks who want to sabotage half of my vocabulary.

You may not appreciate the grammatical and linguistic miracle that is the f-word, but if it were not for that four-letter piece of profanity, nothing would ever get done in the military, as troops would have no way to communicate or organize.

Most people think that the most basic level of unit organization is the squad or the fire team. Technically, that is true, but in reality the basic unit of military organization is the gaggle-*******, which consists of three or more non-rates doing something completely unproductive. When two or more gaggle-*******s coalesce, they become a cluster-*******, and there is often an NCO or even an SNCO in the mix. At this point, all activity becomes counter-productive. Most military activity falls into one of these two categories.

The supreme level of military organization is the Mongolian cluster-*******, which requires the presence of field-grade officers. In actuality, it is just a bunch of cluster-*******s that are supposedly working together for a common objective. The Mongolian cluster-******* is highly unstable and is only manifested for brief periods before the officers just give up and go back to whatever it was they were doing before.

In theory, there is another level of military disorganization...I mean organization, that consists solely of officers. It is spoken of in hushed whispers throughout the ranks but none have ever seen it, and there is no f-word derivative to describe it. The only evidence of it exists in conference rooms that are occupied only by styrofoam cups with what appears to be coffee residue in them, and the occasional half-baked plan scrawled on a dry-erase board or memo pad. Judging from these "plans", it would appear that this level of disorganization is counter-counter-counter-productive, which is to say that it actually negates any accidental benefit from normal counterproductivity.

In any case, overuse of the word "*******" and all derivatives are integral to military operations, and a therefore a matter of national security. As such, your annoyance at the profane term makes you a terrorist threat. You have been reported to the authorities, sir

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by krashkart

Ditto.

[Blood_splat]

When your Boss says "Lets Roll" it makes me want to kill someone.

[Sailor Steve]

I get really annoyed when James comes up with a better one than I could.

Way to go bro!

[SteamWake]

My pet peeve is pepole whom bash a game they dont even own.

[HunterICX]

I hate people who think they have Zero acountability for their stupidity and always put the blame on something/Someone else.

HunterICX

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by Blood_splat

When your Boss says "Lets Roll" it makes me want to kill someone.

Crikey, I had a boss who did that all the time after 911. GRRRR so annoying.

[GoldenRivet]

My pet peeve is people who say "we need to..." or "we should..." or "we ought to" but in reality they have no intention of being productively involved in any project.

I work with an individual like this.

every day, he has a big new idea (and ironically he is the one person in the position to make all of these big new ideas a reality) but he is always saying...


"We should ______" just fill in the blank. Name it... build a new awning onto the front of the business, open a new venue to raise public awareness, have some sort of special event etc etc.

however, he never has anything else to say on the matter beyond "we should" or "we need to.." etc.

we call this person "we we" as his nick name

oddly enough he is in JUST the appropriate position if "authority" to make all of these "we need" statements occur within a matter of days if he had the proper motivation.

one such "we we" moment is a local venue to be constructed that has been discussed time and time again.

The money is in place

the building materials are in place

the people who know how to run and manage it are all in place

but for 18 months now all we get is the occasional "We really need do that."

perhaps he doesnt realize that he is the individual with the final go no-go decision?! and the minute he says "Go" he would have a dozen eager people on the project immediately!

[em2nought]

Here's mine: People who wait till the cashier gives them a total to get their checkbook out of their purse and start filling in the check. Guess it should be people that pay at the grocery store with a check period because they almost all wait till they have the total to get the checkbook out of the purse.