Pet peeve!

[1KPerDay]

Amazing enough, a lot of them when I was younger were gun owners...

That's what happens when you get woke. You become enlightened on behalf of yourself and on behalf of everyone else.

 

[Howland937]

...speaking of Hollywood...
My peave is high paid actors (ol' shootemintheface Liam Neeson), and actresses who make $MILLIONS$ in starring roles in 'action' movies where they shoot people in the face, spill blood and guts all over the floors and up the walls and glorify gun violence........then come out and say they are anti-gun!

C'mon man!
Really!

That's why this is The High Road, and Sunset Blvd is not.
I did however see a pump action double barrel, complete with racking sound in a movie last night. Granted, it was the Simpsons movie.

 

[dogtown tom]

I believe that is why when I was a kid I called them clips for a long time. Father a career Marine and Korean war vet.

<-----My dad was a Korean War vet and called all pistol and rifle magazines "clips". When the internet edjumicated me that nomenclature was wrong, I corrected my Dad, he said "maybe you need to go to basic training at Camp Chaffee and tell the Drill Sgt". I shut my pie hole.

 

[Jammersix]

...speaking of Hollywood...
My peave is high paid actors (ol' shootemintheface Liam Neeson), and actresses who make $MILLIONS$ in starring roles in 'action' movies where they shoot people in the face, spill blood and guts all over the floors and up the walls and glorify gun violence........then come out and say they are anti-gun!

C'mon man!
Really!

If everyone followed that logic, we wouldn't have movies about the west, war, no cop movies, nothing but happy-happy touchy feely movies. Because by your logic, a professional actor shouldn't act in a war movie and be anti-war.

 

[WestTexShooter]

People tend to forget the only reason they have a job is because of the customer, and how they are treated usually determines whether they vote with their feet and wallet.

Forgetting the customer is the only reason you have a job, may be the reason it is only part time.

For the win.

 

[Jammersix]

I just noticed a pet peeve on TV-- people holding people at gunpoint with 1911s that aren't cocked.

Now, that's about as minor and insignificant as I can get, but watch for it, and you'll see it.

 

[cdb1]

I worked the gun counter part time at a huge gun store from 2014-2016. And though I believe people should use proper nomenclature regarding magazine and clip, it didn’t bother me too much when a customer said clip, it did though when a salesman did. What did get under my skin was the absolute ignorance of so many of our salesmen about firearms, even more so about optics. And the fact every salesman we had under 40 always recommended Vortex no matter the application.

 

[Ernie Bass]

It has never bothered me that a person at a gun store is not familiar with all guns or a expert. Many are new. If they have good people skill's are polite etc, we can work together to find the answers. They have to start some place. It is the one's that are arrogant and give me unsolicited advice that I do not ask for that bothers me. Or try and force their opinions on me that get under my skin. That said, most I have dealt with have all been good people. What does also get under my skin is the arrogant Know it all customer, one that wants to stand at the counter and give the clerk and everyone around him is opinion, and show off his knowledge, take up the time of the clerk and other customers. And then walk out without purchasing anything even though have exactly what he wanted.

 

[cdb1]

It has never bothered me that a person at a gun store is not familiar with all guns or a expert. Many are new. If they have good people skill's are polite etc, we can work together to find the answers. They have to start some place. It is the one's that are arrogant and give me unsolicited advice that I do not ask for that bothers me. Or try and force their opinions on me that get under my skin. That said, most I have dealt with have all been good people. What does also get under my skin is the arrogant Know it all customer, one that wants to stand at the counter and give the clerk and everyone around him is opinion, and show off his knowledge, take up the time of the clerk and other customers. And then walk out without purchasing anything even though have exactly what he wanted.

It didn’t bother me either when a new salesman didn’t know much. It was the ones that thought they knew everything and were wrong more often than not that got under my skin.

The arrogant know it all customers bothered me too.

At the other extreme we had a gentleman named LT who was a good bit older than me. He had been on some U.S. Army competitive shotgun team in the 1960’s, made a nice side income at pigeon shoots and worked as a hunting guide for many years. LT had a vast array of knowledge and was parsimonious with it. His favorite place to stand was right in back of the Glock case. On more than one occasion a person walked up and asked LT if we carried Glock pistols, and with him standing directly behind a bunch of Glocks, LT said, “No, we don’t carry Glocks”. Not good for business but it was definitely amusing.

 

[Ernie Bass]

 

[MedWheeler]

Jammersix writes:

If everyone followed that logic, we wouldn't have movies about the west, war, no cop movies, nothing but happy-happy touchy feely movies. Because by your logic, a professional actor shouldn't act in a war movie and be anti-war.

He said "anti-gun", not "anti-war." There is a difference. Neeson has made no secret of his desire that Americans should be under significantly-tighter gun-ownership restrictions. I'd venture to say that a much higher number of THR members are "anti-war" than are "anti-gun."

And, yes, "professional actors" are certainly capable of standing up for what they believe, instead of caving to money while helping to glorify that to which they are opposed. They would get a lot more respect if they did, and that seems to be something that many of them are short on (and seem to be craving lately.)

 

[Jammersix]

Jammersix writes:
He said "anti-gun", not "anti-war."

I understand exactly what he said. I don't think you understand what I said.

Have a good day

 

[GEM]

Don't bicker. Post peeves.

 

[Ironicaintit]

Not gun related at all, but a pet peeve for certain.... okay, so it could be said at a gun store!
When somebody says, “have a good rest of your day”. It flows terribly

 

[Hartkopf]

My pet peeve is people typing “what I said” about what they just typed!

 

[bdickens]

People who can't make the distinction between someone else attacking their logic or ideas and attacking them personally.

 

[Hartkopf]

My firearms pet peeve is testing a new gun by running 300+ rounds through it before it starts malfunctioning. Ammo is getting expensive and near unattainable so it really sucks when a quality name brand gun has to go back to the factory. Then, it must be retested when the gun returns.

 

[Offhand McFlan]

I always hate it when people say they "just don't get" pistol caliber carbines...and "If you want a rifle just get a rifle"!

 

[Offhand McFlan]

I hate that about 99.99% of modern bolt action rifles dont seem to come with iron sights, making them next to useless without a scope. Is that just big corporations ganging up on us to make us into consumer slaves or what??

 

[Offhand McFlan]

I hate it when people want to put $300 sights on a handgun they'll be carrying concealed to defend against an attacker they'll probably be shooting at from the hip or behind them as they run...and IF they do the gun will likely be in an evidence room for quite some time afterwards, $300 sights and all.

 

[Offhand McFlan]

I hate walking into a gun store only to find the place is about 12% stocked but the salesperson can "order you anything you want".

 

[bikerdoc]

Nope, bickering in my thread, Which by the way was a pararody
Thread is a no-no
We are done here!