The Official Pet Peeve Thread

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#41

Just checking my Facebook account I ran into ads for a “Learn to be Rich” seminar by the author of Rich Dad Poor Dad.

Yeah, cause THAT’S my problem: I don’t KNOW how to be rich!

UGH!

I think I love you.

In terms of grammar, there are so many things that bother me. But given that, being at a university, I am generally around people who speak decently, the complete misuse of the subjunctive kills me. !!!

I really also dislike systematic typos - one here and there isn’t too bad, but every other word? Drives me crazy.

LOL this thread makes me seem much more neurotic about stuff than I really am

The misuse of “its” vs. “it’s” does it for me, even though I know that it’s an easy mistake to make. Its proper usage is not that hard to learn, however. :wink:

Also, I hate, hate, HATE text message speak. If you can’t bother to write “to” but must use the number “2,” just don’t bother writing.

Originally Posted by Armando
Um…I own some 700 CDs. Some I’ve had for going on two decades. The only ones I’ve ever scratched are ones I’ve loaned to careless friends who listened to them in the car, did not handle the discs by the edges, and left them in the glove compartment rather than put them back in their jewel box. I hate it when people do that (which is why I don’t lend out discs anymore).

This is not meant to make you feel old (seriously) but my Dad is totally like that. Though I won’t say anything, you are to CDs what I am to books. No lending books from me.

No worries. It doesn’t make me feel old. I’m a musician and I have learned a lot from the discs in my collection. While I’m slowly (since they’re all in storage right now) moving them onto MP3, I still like keeping them clean from scratches so they will last their full lifetime, which is longer than my own. I’m the same with DVDs. I’m proud to say, my daughter (the one old enough to know better, at least) is also like this. We’ve trained her well.

thank you! you know what’s worse? when teachers do it. pronunciation, spelling, grammar…oh, the atrocities I’ve witnessed at the hands of my fellow teachers!

Capitalization errors; sentence fragments…:wink:

(And yes, I’m aware my response above is itself a sentence fragment.)

#42

Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo my goodness, so true.

Check your privilege, people.

Ouch!

I realized another thing that pisses me off (which would make it a pet peeve?) apropos of Armando’s mention of Facebook are all the weight loss ads - because seriously, young women don’t have enough body image issues as it is… I always click that I find the ads objectionable… (hehe so does my sister, we’re starting a revolution)

#43

This just makes me think of the immortal words of Homer: “‘To start press any key.’ Where’s the ‘any’ key?”

#44

craaap! I hate having my hypocrisy pointed out to me

#45

So…she’s going to be somewhat anal-retentive when she grows up? :smiley:

(from the person who alphabetizes her cd’s and dvd’s…)

#46

Well, you never know… IKYWIM!

#47

Remember, they will be going to the special hell. I totally agree with you…one of the few times I truly get angry is when someone insists on talking during a movie.

Once, and only once when I was younger a great deal stupider halfway through a movie there was a person who had a serious case of diarrhea of the mouth. He was talking about everything on the planet besides the movie. As far as I could tell the person who was with him was completely embarrassed but didn’t have the stones to tell him to be quiet. Now, I consider myself a patient man, more patient than most. But being at a movie is somewhat sacred to me. I have paid good money to spend 2 hours immersed in a story. I look forward to this time, and when someone is spoiling it, well, I get really angry. This time I didn’t hold back…normally I would simply sit there with my stomach churning and imagining painful things being inflicted on the perpetrator. This time, for the first and last time I stood up, turned around and in my deepest, loudest most bass-profundo voice bellowed:

“SHUT…
…THE…
…F*%K…
…UP…”

Which was greeted by an audible gasp. I didn’t wait to see if it took, I sat back down. After a moment someone started applauding, and then another, and then another. Soon everyone around me was clapping and I slunk down in my seat.

The dude didn’t talk again. I was proud until I realized I had no idea what this guy looked like…or more importantly, if he was a brute. The movie ended, and I will be honest, I got the frak out of there quickly.

#48

What you care to call that in?

Soon everyone around me was clapping and I slunk down in my seat.

Hell, that was some civil courage!

#49

That is an awesome story. Reading it, I almost stood up and applauded right here and now.:slight_smile:

#50

if you know what I mean!

#51

Schools should make everyone memorize this sentence:

You’re going to have to take your car because they’re going to need their car when everyone gets there.

Add “It’s too bad its gas tank is empty” and you’ve got all the major ones covered.

Ah, you young whippersnappers who don’t remember the days before graphical user interfaces.

“Print Screen” did indeed print the contents of your screen, back in the days of 80 x 24 text displays and locally connected printers. Nowadays it takes a screenshot of your display (in Windows anyway) and saves it to your clipboard.

“Scroll Lock” again goes back to those old displays. Basically all output was text in those days. If the program printed it too fast (or if it was coming in too fast over your (gasp!) 2400 baud modem) you could hit “Scroll Lock” to freeze your display, giving you time to read it. I’m actually not sure what it gets used for today; I suppose it may still work in a command window.

“Escape” was indeed the way used to exit many programs before Windows came along and gave us the close box. Nowadays it mostly seems to bring up menu screens in games.

#52

Geeky High Five Y’know the one where we miss, drop our pocket protectors, and then adjust our glasses.

#53

No, no, toaster ovens can’t be trusted. Never put faith in a device that can’t decide what it is. Is it a toaster? Is it an oven? No, it’s some unholy union of the two. As Athena said, pick a side and stick with it!

#54

I think I’ve just developed a new toaster pet peeve: do people actually butter their bread or bagels before inserting them in the toaster?

Liquefied fat + hot tungsten coils ≠ good idea

#55

How about “ath-uh-lete”, “jool-uh-ree”, and “mis-chee-vee-us”?

Or one that just makes my skin crawl:

Using “weary” and “wary” interchangeably. :eek::confused::mad:

Or, you know, when the guy who’s actually in charge of the nuclear arsenal can’t pronounce it correctly. :mad:

Why Does Bush Go “Nucular”?

#56

LOL - I miss President Bartlet too!!! I got really excited when they had Martin Sheen play him at the Emmys. I remember thinking - man I wish we had a president like that.

#57

So say we all my friend. :rolleyes:

#58

Well, I gotta keep you honest, dear. :rolleyes:

#59

Too slow. I won this argument by default two days ago when you failed to respond to it at. the. time. No matter how clever your above argument may be, it is negated by the fact that your wit was just too slow to respond when I originally posted. :smiley:

#60

Apropos of nothing, but just because it’s a funny pic: