Your irrational pet peeves

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

Its fun the first few times but once you memorize all the cards it gets lame. I prefer a game like Balderdash where you write custom stuff

[JS©]

Best drinking game ever. It brings out the evil.

There's an free online version that I believe is open sourced. Some of the card sets makes are geared toward a certain crowd, but it's mostly the same thing.

[count2infinity]

It's fun to play with a multicultural crowd. The game can get racist really quick.

[tifosi77]

I played it with a room full of in-laws and people I had never met before that night over the holidays. Got to explain 'bukakke' whilst seated between my father-in-law and his only daughter. Fun times.

[Hockeynut!]

I played it with a room full of in-laws and people I had never met before that night over the holidays. Got to explain 'bukakke' whilst seated between my father-in-law and his only daughter. Fun times.

That's really the perfect time to pull out the, "I'm not at all familiar with that word" excuse.

[MRandall25]

People who still don't understand the difference between bias and biased.

You have a bias towards something. It is a noun. "I have a slight bias towards the Pittsburgh Penguins" would be an apt usage of the word.

Biased is an adjective. "Chris Collinsworth is a biased announcer" would be the correct usage of the word.

"Chris Collinsworth is bias" is wrong and pisses me off to no end.

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

I've never seen a person whose bias as an adjective


Also, biased is an adjective, not a verb

[MRandall25]

I was on a roll and forgot my tenses...

I actually saw "Chris Collinsworth is bias" in the petition to have him fired (which is why I brought it up), and a lot of people in PR use it when talking about the refs/other commentators.

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

Technically you got the part of speech wrong, not tense

[MRandall25]

Running on like 5 hours of sleep. I'm just going to stop.

[JS©]

I played it with a room full of in-laws and people I had never met before that night over the holidays. Got to explain 'bukakke' whilst seated between my father-in-law and his only daughter. Fun times.

That's really the perfect time to pull out the, "I'm not at all familiar with that word" excuse. :lol:

We had somebody question that card over the weekend too.

The person that had it tried to use that excuse. Our group, who 90% knew what it meant, laughed when somebody said "we can get you a definition. Anybody have urbandictionary open?"

Reading the most popular definition back made it that much funnier.

[JS©]

Running on like 5 hours of sleep. I'm just going to stop.

Amateur :p

I'm running on 2. Work will be fun tomorrow.

[PghSkins]

"<sport> is better when <team> is good."

Yeah, if you are a bandwagon fan from back when that team was good. Otherwise, screw them.

[44windmill]

People saying they are going to look at our house (which is for sale) and backing down at the last minute. Do you understand it takes quite a bit of work to get our house in condition to show it, especially with a 1 year old and a cat that sheds like crazy?

Worst part is there's probably a 80% chance they won't reschedule. 7 months, 2 showings, 3 cancellations.

[Letang Is The Truth]

You need a new realtor

[PensFanInDC]

People saying they are going to look at our house (which is for sale) and backing down at the last minute. Do you understand it takes quite a bit of work to get our house in condition to show it, especially with a 1 year old and a cat that sheds like crazy?

Worst part is there's probably a 80% chance they won't reschedule. 7 months, 2 showings, 3 cancellations.

Wow. I can't imagine but I may sometime soon. The average time from listing to contract in my area is 24 days so I am hopeful ours will sell quickly. Set to hit the market in 1 week. We've spent the last 2 weeks getting it ready to show and we have a 3 year old.

[skullman80]

My Mother in Laws house has been on the market since June or so... not even an offer. Tons of showings, had a few open houses, people interested...but no actual offers. Thing is move in ready too. She's dropped the price one, may have to again. She was hoping to be out by winter, but that isn't going to happen now obviously.

[count2infinity]

My mother in law is also trying to sell her house. The last time we were over there she said someone came and looked and said it looks dated. I kept thinking to myself "that's because it is dated... very very dated." But didn't say it. I hate the kitchen, I hate the layout of the house, I really hate everything about her house. Not sure who is going to buy it.

[Idoit40fans]

Id love to get a house like that as long as its not expensive and in ok shape. When we get a house its going to immediately torn apart and redone one room at a time anyway...unless we have one built. And even then...

[count2infinity]

it's a ranch style house shaped like a big U with a courtyard in the middle. All the windows need to be replaced (including the sliding glass doors that lead to the courtyard), the kitchen is a galley style kitchen, the roof needs to be replaced in about a year and worst of all, she wants to get at least what she paid for it back out of it, which likely isn't going to happen. It's just got a lot of stuff working against it right now.

[PensFanInDC]

My house is about 4 years old and has only been lived in for 3 years. That is going to help big time in selling.

[shmenguin]

i'll probably get around what i paid for my house.

the only problem is that we've spent $50-60 grand in improvements since we bought it. it's going to be a painful experience whenever we decide to sell.

[Idoit40fans]

I would actually love to just never own.

[PensFanInDC]

i'll probably get around what i paid for my house.

the only problem is that we've spent $50-60 grand in improvements since we bought it. it's going to be a painful experience whenever we decide to sell.

We're making money on ours. It paid to buy new.

[44windmill]

It's funny how the market in Pittsburgh is divided. Selling your house in Upper St. Clair, Aspinwall, North Huntingdon? No problem. White Oak, Dormont, Turtle Creek? Good luck! We usually get really good feedback from the few showings, and from the multiple realtors we interviewed. We've already dropped the price 3 times. It's now below what I bought it for in 2005.

We did look into firing our realtor. I wanted to find a top notch realtor in the area, so we brought a guy in who was top 5 in the area. Thinking our realtor's issues were with marketing, I grilled the guy on how he would market our house differently. He basically told me they hardly do anything to market the house. 95% of houses, he says, are sold by people looking online. I guess the realtors have their worth in all the contract paperwork. Seems like a crock to me. But I sure as heck am not going to do the paperwork myself, so I guess they are worth something.