Biggest tarantula keeping pet peeve?

Tenevanica

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What's your biggest pet peeve you commonly see in the world of arachnoculture? Something that irritates you, but you still see it incredibly often? Now, I'm talking about little annoyances that really don't matter that much. Not husbandry errors that could result in dead spiders. So for example, things like "I hate it when people use those tacky human skull ornaments as hides." As opposed to "I hate it when people use red heating bulbs." Serious husbandry mistakes are for another thread.

One of my biggest ones is seeing people use common names along with scientific names on boards like these. For example "This is my Grammostola pulchripes (Chaco Golden Knee) names Rosco!" Like, why are you using common names if you know the scientific name? No serious keeper uses common names! Also, I hate it when people don't write scientific binomials correctly. Only the genus name is capitalized! The species name is never capitalized! And, can you please write out the full genus at least once? A while back I was trying to figure out what a C. elegans was and I could only find info on a round worm! If they had simply written out Cyriocosmus it would've saved me so much time! Finally, the last one is minor, a scientific name should be italicized or underlined. I get why you wouldn't do this for conveniences sake on a forum, but it will makes me twitch a slight bit...

So, what are your little pet peeves you see all the time?
 

basin79

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Personally I absolutely detest the elitism of some tarantula keepers. Yes scientific names are better to nail down the species but new keepers might not know them or are learning them.
 

Tenevanica

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Ps. I hate nit-picking
That wasn't directed at me, was it? ;) That's why I called my annoyances with the specifics of binomials pet peeves rather than problems. It's really not that important. I rarely, if ever, correct a person on that, I just push it off and move on. I have OCD tendencies, which I think contributes to my need for everything to be done the official "just so" way. :)
 

KezyGLA

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That wasn't directed at me, was it? ;) That's why I called my annoyances with the specifics of binomials pet peeves rather than problems. It's really not that important. I rarely, if ever, correct a person on that, I just push it off and move on. I have OCD tendencies, which I think contributes to my need for everything to be done the official "just so" way. :)
Yeah, I could tell you were on the spectrum somewhere. :p
 

Leila

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I absolutely cannot stand when people type paragraphs without utilizing periods and commas somewhat properly. I'm not saying that every sentence should be grammatically correct; but for the love of heck, some folks could try.

An example of what I hate:
The cat jumped onto the kitchen counter, it chewed open the plastic covering the bread, can you believe my cat did that, what a lunatic, I think I need to buy a new loaf of bread now, I put the cat outside, my dog now feels entitled to a slice of bread too,

:mad:

Edit: I realize my pet peeve does not directly pertain to the keeping of tarantulas; however, my complaint still stands. :bucktooth::mooning:
 
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basin79

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I absolutely cannot stand when people type paragraphs without utilizing periods and commas somewhat properly. I'm not saying that every sentence should be grammatically correct; but for the love of heck, some folks could try.

An example of what I hate:
The cat jumped onto the kitchen counter, it chewed open the plastic covering the bread, can you believe my cat did that, what a lunatic, I think I need to buy a new loaf of bread now, I put the cat outside, my dog now feels entitled to a slice of bread too,

:mad:
Utilising.
 

miss moxie

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I hate the 'Look what I have' mentality. :penguin:

Ps. I hate nit-picking
Right there is a difference between "Look at my new tarantula I'm so excited!" and "Look at this rare tarantula that I have and you will never have it because I am better than you and sneeze gold."
 

Mojo288

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An example of what I hate:
The cat jumped onto the kitchen counter, it chewed open the plastic covering the bread, can you believe my cat did that, what a lunatic, I think I need to buy a new loaf of bread now, I put the cat outside, my dog now feels entitled to a slice of bread too,

:mad:
The only thing i see wrong there is the lack of full stop at the end....:embarrassed:

Unnecessary handling, or feeding vertebrates because its cool....
 

Chris LXXIX

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I absolutely cannot stand when people type paragraphs without utilizing periods and commas somewhat properly. I'm not saying that every sentence should be grammatically correct; but for the love of heck, some folks could try.
True!

Happened that I've read crap written by American/English people (ah ah) with a lack of grammar that not even Leatherface after his annual "Texas VS Oklahoma" chili contest :)
 

Chris LXXIX

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Finally, the last one is minor, a scientific name should be italicized
That's incredible... people are virtually lazy enough for avoid like plague that freaking "I" everyone can view, just above, second from left.

For that writing Grammostola rosea is indeed quite an 'Herculean' struggle than just writing Grammostola rosea.

Mah :)
 
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