Pet Peeves

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Pleaaaseee. I know a little culture never hurt anyone. Being a monkey is encouraged here. They clean the roads every day. They dont have rubbish bins. The roads are simply screaming "Throw rubbish HERE"

Welcome to qatar jane.

Great reflex, Oryx. And how was that received? Did it get thrown back out?

(Sometimes you're the windshield, and sometimes you're the bug...)

One time i was walking down the street and someone tossed a can out of the window which hit me.

So i tossed it back in the car.

I cringe at the sight of all of the litter here. ...and it's not just loose paper that has accidentally blown out the window of the car. One morning as I drove into Hamad Hospital, I was behind a white Land Cruiser. All of a sudden, out the front passenger's window goes flying a half finished cup of coffee (paper cup and all). My exclamation of "Pig!" barely left my lips when a second cup went out the window. I could hardly believe what I was seeing. Civilized people do not behave this way. Every morning when I come into work, the parking lot is littered with just about anything you can think of (baby diapers; bottles; cans; fast food cups, containers, and bags; broken perfume bottles; hala cards; shopping bags, etc., etc.) It looks as if there was a tailgate party there the night before. They leave their trash for someone else to deal with. Where's the personal responsibility? Another time I watched a Filipino as he was walking across an open lot drinking a can of pop (soda). When he finished, he just dropped the can on the ground. I couldn't believe it! No wonder there's so much litter around Doha. These people have no respect for themselves nor for the country in which they were born/live.

xyned - not all public toilets are messy. Malls in Dubai manage to keep their toilets spic and span like a five star hotel, so why can't Shitty Centre do the same? It's a pet peeve of mine too - and don't get me started about the horrible, inadequate toilets at Doha airport arrivals hall. Not a good first impression of the country - most people come off a long-haul flight and want to use the toilet. There are only two WC's in the ladies, one of which is usually not working, the other will be dirty and the floor swamped with water. Not nice. Yuk yuk yuk

#1-true that

2#-nah. its exaggeration

3#-happens all the time. Not just in qatar

4#- Why? Excercise is no high school detention.

5#-if there are no 'No smoking' signs and security guards are busy munching kebabs. Can't help it

6#-all public toilets are unkept. Everywhere in the world. At least, city centre ones get cleaned every hour.

7#-True that. I found out from a friend who calls these greedy domineering egyptians as 'fallaheens'. He tells, not all egyptians were created the same.

However, tag teaming of leb-egypt due to common language ties and preferential treatment at work is a reality you need to live with. Get into engineering or some other technical field and you will see there are less of such people hogging the workplace. Those who are there are way more civil, social and considerate

8#- Can't help it. Its just south east asian culture (refer back to my older posts). Modern day flesh selling harlots have raised the bar and the game

9#-don't be so naive.... We're all as dishonest as the next person.

10#-Its qatar for gods name. They won't change until the next gulf war.

Shitty Center...hahahahahaha

great name, you made me laugh!

:)

1. Most drivers on road. Where did they get the license from?

2. Not switching phone to silent mode in meetings.

3. Not switching phone to silent mode in cinema halls and talking away during films.

4. Gym goers exercising with their phones. What is this all about???

5. Smoking in places where you are not suppose to smoke like the malls.

6. The awful toilet inside Shitty Center cinema.

7. Gangs of Eqyptian mafias, white mafias, lebanese mafias... all kinds of gang "mafias" at work... ganging up just because they are from the same country or skin colour. How can any company progress like this?

8. Expats taking Qatari bosses for rides by selling saliva but do very little to help the company and country. I hate this the most and I am an expat here.

9. Dishonest ppl... this is the easiest kinda of ppl to spot.

10. Karwa service or should I say no service.

my pet peeves

1)chinese drivers (rare but painful) - they have got their licences on a pram.

2) Fat paycheck increase over the last 2 years.

3) The idea of dismantling sponsorship

4) The growth of isolated micro-communities in qatar

1. undisciplined kids and their oblivious parents

2. people who think they own the right of way at the malls by not moving an inch...when I get really tired of it, I don't move either...taking out their shoulder..."oh, I'm so sorry!"

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1)tail gate driving

2)males (gays?)walking hand in hand around Doha

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or do we learn to make peace with it and let it go?

ummmmmmmm,,,suddenly falling off my chair.....

it is so effing rude. And they never say excuse me. And it stinks.

Another one to add to my peeve list.

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Man makes plans...............God smiles ;-)

I kinda agree with U, the attitude displayed is more of 'Want it take it...if not place it.Also majority of us scrunch at the thought of facing traffic n playing the 'I spotted the parking slot 1st' game so we choose not to return it. I have faced the same too n have also visualised kids throw packs on the floor...but i found a way...stretch ur hand in2 the far end n try grabbing one of the deep end packs...It wrkd for me;;))

There are loads but few that im experiencing everyday:

1.Indians burbing loudly at work.it just pisses me off for the rest of the day.what bothers me more that it happenes early morning at work and the i ask myself a question,whats gonna be like after lunch.

2.Those flashing lights at the back of ur car while driving to move out of their way.

thats all for now,let me think lol

1. The kind of people that stare at you for no apparent reason. Probably think you're from another planet or something.

2. People who try to rip you off thinking that just because you're an ex-patriot means that you've just arrived in the country and don't know what's what.

3. Driving boogers

Go ahead, knock yourselves out. Lol Snake, isn't there a law against that now? Has anyone seen it being enforced?

people who spits anywhere they want to...

add:

people smoking under the no smoking sign

drivers talking on cell phones

non use of turn indicators

cars that turn left from the right lane/vice versa

head bobble

no parking ANYWHERE

i love traffic.... i take the long way home everyday just to drive... im seriously NOT joking... i let everyone in infront of me... i dont mind queue jumpers, occassionally i q jump too but im allowed as i let people in.... :) give and take :)

digging noses yes is digusting BUT F-ing hilarious when they have no idea they are being watched!

Its not just in dohell.

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I think you have me confused with someone who gives a sh1t.

when i was talking to somebody and he will suddenly look at my - - - - and keep me I wondering if I forgot to zipped my pants

parking, cos they dont apply to me, as I have Pork in abundance and I dont take any kids to school.

Everything else really pi$$es me off.

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I think you have me confused with someone who gives a sh1t.

any survive without digging their nose? :)

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. (Gautama Buddha)

Yes..Driving in general..it really gets on to me when i am on the road to see my husband getting mad all the time because of the reckless drivers..

You cannot find any decent kids food here..the ones you get here makes you puke..that leaves me having to cook for them all the time.

I am full of a cold so not in the best of the moods, so glad of a chance to rant ;-)

driving in general

queue hopppers

horn pompers

tail gate driving

kids that are all over the car and not strapped in

driving whilst on the phone

Arrogant people who queue jump in shops

slow walkers in the malls

spitting

people that don't say please and thankyou

having no decent fruit and veg here

no pork

security men that do not do anything

staff that chase you around the shop even when you have said you are just looking

triple parking at the school gates

that's my moan over and I feel better, thank you x

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Man makes plans...............God smiles ;-)

oops

2 Things That I often see while waiting at a Busy Traffic Intersection.

1. People Talking on their mobile phone

2. The ones who are idle are busy digging their nose !! Yeeks

Q jumpers..

Driver using the side parking bays on the corniche during rush hours for sneaking into the Q....I cannot stand them and I dont give way to them...

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Anyone Can Die.

I must admit every visit to Paul is fun (or annoying), last visit I ordered the Salmon Tart with salad and asked for a side of wedges. The waiter told me I couldn't have the wedges, I asked why, he said it's not allowed, I said they are on the menu, he said Yes but you are not allowed. So now I'm thinking maybe new law that bans fish and potato products being on the same plate. I then add mushroom soup to the order, and get chicken ! When the tart arrives so does a portion of wedges....go figure !.

My wife orders pizza, she is told no pizza, she says it's on the menu, he says yes, but we don't do it.

Still the bread is great !

Yep - friend of mine said they'd started doing that in Paul. They said to him QR5 for milk in his tea. He said NO WAY, and the gave it to him for free.

I mean, seriously, QR5 for a SPLASH of milk. They're taking the piss.

Well Paul R., so funny that you just happened to ask this today. I just got home from PAUL (the restaurant) and they charged me QR5 to add milk to my coffee! I was so peeved I went off in a rant on my blog! Geez.

In a similar vein to the broken biscuits - bruised fruit and veg, mainly caused by the way the shelf stackers at Carrefour throw the produce onto the shelves.

And general, just the poor quality of fruit and veg available here.

When the main pages (headlines), business pages and sports pages of the newspaper are not in proper order of location. Meaning somebody read it and not returned it in proper order. #@+%&$*!

the last one, that should be really disgusting and awful ...

Why the biscuits are like that? could be simple as:

The loader drop it while shipping it ...

A customer was checking those and drop them ...

Another customer tried to pick it up, but he drop another one instead ...

Someone saw him doing that, did the same to get even ...

Someone took it already home and after a fight why did he bring it, he return it again ...

or maybe you are just unlucky enough to have those biscuits broken every time you buy them. I consider you luck as I'm buying those to make cheese cake, that would save the time crushing them :)

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. (Gautama Buddha)

Pet Peeves:

"Honkers" - Those idiots that have no regard for others and honk their car horns at all hours of day or night, often just to call their servant......

"Drifters" - Those idiots you can hear driving and screeching their tires as they 'drift'.....

"Plonkers" - Those idiots that cut the cue at the traffics signals!

"Chippers" - Those idiot that have a huge CHIP on their shoulders and would read this post as a personal attack on them.............

Queue jumpers in the traffic... you know... the traffic light seems to take FOREVER to turn green, you're in the right lane... and some idiot just goes on the (I'll call it) emergency lane and gets in the queue right in the front... and not just one driver... LOADS OF THEM! The queue jumpers everywhere else.. but I always get SUPER upset when that happens and complain...

I used to get REALLY annoyed by the slow walkers on the malls... but I'm now more relaxed, unless I'm in a hurry...

long queue at shawarma store.

Dagway ai!

chewing out loud!.. talking while chewing!...where are your manners?!

spitting anywhere they like.. before they spit they would make this awful sound of i dont know what and then spit!...

tasting/eating every ingredients before they cook them...

[img_assist|nid=12867|link=none|align=left|width=|height=0]Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Mine is having to work on a Sunday.(boo hoo hoo )

AP

"katas ng qatar"

lol bahraini :) im back to work, see ya :)

morning witchie .. y on earth r u on QL? back to your work .. QL was made for those "FULLY PAID HARDLY WORKING"

hassan1024 ... god i hate that!!!

people chewing with their mouth open.

people talking like chewing (yes - YOU :).

people sucking food out of their teeth (LOL).

people annoy me... lol!

keith, i noticed that one. also, the use of the word jewelries to mean the plural of jewelry.

You can't teach experience...

People who walk down the streets, playing 'music' on their mobile phones....

I'm tempted to grab the infernal thing and fling it right into the traffic...

One of my pet peeves is the american use of the word "Doave" as the past tense of to dive, "He doave into the water".Has anybody else noticed that one.?

good morning ..

what a post to unload the accumulated wreckage :P

Q-Jumpers .. i hate you .. i'm in the Q and i'm in a hurry so plz don't jump over me thinking that i'm just here to enjoy Q-ing

Manchester United fans......

wrong grammar on some QL posts. arrogant secretaries who, in the course of their work, have poor etiquette over the phone.

You can't teach experience...

Spitting and Bad Service - like I am causing some major inconvenience by purchasing something

Hello oh Miserable cashier at Virgin Megastore yesterday....I apologise for being polite and paying for something..which obviously made you treat me like i was dog dirt on your shoe. guess you finished top of your class in the North Korean charm school.

Oh and Qtel at Villagio...actually were really really polite... Qatari staff - :)

IBQ were good yesterday and so was Oasis :)

I hate when they stick the Arabic language sticker with nutrition or usage instructions info, right on top of the original one in all of the imported products... This makes the majority of the inhabitants of Doha, unable to read what was originally on the package!!!!

Mine is definately - bad service! I'm always having to phone maintenance in our building 6 times, before they come! Drives me mad!!

Whatever you vividly imagine, Ardently desire, Sincerely believe and Enthusiastically act upon, Must inevitably come to pass.

My pet peeve? Having to queue for ages at the check-outs in Carrefour when half of them are closed and the lines snake waaayyyyyy back into the store. Grrrrrr

I should have kept the crumbs and made a nice cheescake tonight with a dark cherry topping!

But my peeve is more than just broken biscuits, it's the lack of care. We seem to accept that products in the stores are crushed, broken, dented or just don't work.

Is it a lack of training or just a lack of care?

Oh!!! Well, agree with you there....there's no excuse lol.

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Diamond, I meant bad English from native English speakers!

I see posts from guys I grew up with on Facebook, etc. and cringe at their grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc.

Oh Baldrick, grumpy this morning? Lol, I think bad English is to be expected when the bulk of the population speak it as a second or third language. Oh yeah, out of control children as a result of poor parenting are really annoying. I always have to say something...I just can't bite my lip on that subject.

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happened many times for me too when i get my pack of Hob Nobs and wat i get is just crumbs....:(

I know its defenately not the RATS or Mouse who do thiz but as noms said " mishandling "...:(

Too many to list here, but let's start with:

Bad driving

Loud ringtones

Poor service

Slow walkers

Queue jumpers

Wrong numbers

Inconsiderate smokers

Parents who don't control their children

Bad English

etc

etc

etc

Mishandling during Loading, Shipment & Unloading of goods...!!

~noms~

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"Before God we are all equally wise ' and equally foolish" - Albert Einstein