The pet peeve thread

[Shades of Deivi Cruz]

My pet peeve is that every time this thread gets bumped, I get reminded that my guitar has been packed and stowed under the bed for years due to lack of progress.

 

Edited May 18 by Shades of Deivi Cruz

[LaceyLou]

Ear worms-at least this particular one. I can't get the theme song to Hogan's Heroes out of my head.

[Crazy Cat Gentleman]

On 5/28/2026 at 9:59 AM, LaceyLou said:

Ear worms-at least this particular one. I can't get the theme song to Hogan's Heroes out of my head.

oh, man, I had a bad one recently, probably for at least a week before you posted this and maybe up till a couple days ago. just a random song I'd listened to and nothing that's usually an earworm for me, I don't think, but I could. not. get. rid. of. it. I seem to be ok now, though.

I basically always have some song running through my head, but it's almost never just one for that long, and it's usually easy enough to knock one out if it seems a little stuck.

[Crazy Cat Gentleman]

also, oof, I hope my posting that doesn't bring your earworm back to you.

[LaceyLou]

18 hours ago, Crazy Cat Gentleman said:

also, oof, I hope my posting that doesn't bring your earworm back to you.

Don't worry-the show comes on after another show I watch so that's what would bring it back. 🙂

[oblong]

an oldie but goodie... people who smoke near doors.  Went to the dealership this morning to get bagels, there's an awesome bagel cafe inside, and right outside the door, on a courtesy bench they have for people waiting for rides, a lady is smoking.   I can still smell and taste it.  Just ****ing rude.

 

[chasfh]

On 6/3/2026 at 9:00 PM, Crazy Cat Gentleman said:

oh, man, I had a bad one recently, probably for at least a week before you posted this and maybe up till a couple days ago. just a random song I'd listened to and nothing that's usually an earworm for me, I don't think, but I could. not. get. rid. of. it. I seem to be ok now, though.

I basically always have some song running through my head, but it's almost never just one for that long, and it's usually easy enough to knock one out if it seems a little stuck.

Here’s one that happens to me all the time, and I don’t know how common this is: I will catch a snippet of a song I’ve never heard before, frequently part of an ad jingle, and then I will fill in the rest of the song in my head, basically writing it as I go, and then I get into a repeating pattern with the part I heard going into the part I made up, over and over, and that becomes an earworm for several minutes at least.

Occasionally, I will “write” the rest of a song in my head based on a snippet I heard, maybe after I pause a show playing an outro theme so I can go to the bathroom or something, then I come back and push play to see how close the song I “wrote” in my head matches the actual rest of the song, and it literally never matches.