Pet Peeves

[cloudy]

A Peeve is a small fluffy animal that resides in the high Andes, spending half it's day perched in the top of the stunted bushes of the area surveying the locale for food and of course keeping an eye out for predators. Peeve's are well suited to their environment, well camouflaged with their scruffy unkemp fur they are often mistaken for a clump of Yak hair stuck on a bush. They have also evolved well for life in the mountains and can outrun almost all of the natural predators, they achieve this by having the two legs of the right hand side of their body 3 inches longer than the two on the left making it easier to run round the side of the mountain without the risk of falling over. They are of course only able to achieve this advantage to the full if they move round the mountain in a counter-clockwise direction, should the predator come from the other direction, they're buggered.

I hope I've been of assistance.

I just hate it when Pops isn't around for a snog now and then, don't you?

hiya, sweetie

 

[pop_54]

I just hate it when Pops isn't around for a snog now and then, don't you?

hiya, sweetie

Lo you gorgeous young person Let me plonk one on your lips Your choice of 'lips'

 

[cloudy]

Lo you gorgeous young person Let me plonk one on your lips Your choice of 'lips'

oh, just surprise me.

 

[pop_54]

oh, just surprise me.

On my knees as we speak

 

[SeaCat]

My personal button or red flag is any sentance that start: "You can't understand because," followed by, You're male, You're white, You're hetero, etc. etc. etc.

Hey I may not know it from personal experience but that doesn't mean I'm stupid and can't understand another persons viewpoint. Do I have to be female to know that being raped is not something your going to write happy songs about? Do I have to be black, or hispanic, or asiatic to know what racism is? Somehow I don't think so.

Cat

 

[SeaCat]

Hey Pops,

They also taste good in a stew, but it takes a lot of them.

Cat

 

[yui]

Rude, confrontational people who think they are the center of the universe and the rest of the world revolves around them. [begin rant/] Wake-up! Those behaviors that you piss and moan about in others are exactly how you are acting! [/rant]

Oh, and use your freaking turn signal.

 

[SeaCat]

Rude, confrontational people who think they are the center of the universe and the rest of the world revolves around them. [begin rant/] Wake-up! Those behaviors that you piss and moan about in other are exactly how you are acting! [/rant]

Oh, and use your freaking turn signal.

Turn signal? I think they outlawed those here in South Florida.

Cat

 

[cloudy]

Turn signal? I think they outlawed those here in South Florida.

Cat

They just sent 'em here, where you not only use your turn signal if you're turning, but also if the person in front of you is turning.

 

[brightlyiburn]

Here's a pet peeve: 15,000 students paying $300 per class and the damn school can't have elevators that don't take an hour to go six floors! Nor, apparently, can they get their elevators fixed in less than two weeks. The only thing worse than two slow ass elevators is one!

 

[yui]

Turn signal? I think they outlawed those here in South Florida.

Cat

In Central Florida, too. The people fromOhio didn't get the memo. J/K!

They just sent 'em here, where you not only use your turn signal if you're turning, but also if the person in front of you is turning.

That drives me nuts, too. Maybe proper us of turn signals should be part of the license exam?

 

[Bridget69]

The entire world is my pet peeve. LOL!

Seriously though, I hate grammatical errors, noise too early in the morning and bus drivers who see you running yet decide to keep on driving past you anyhow.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

I really loose it whenever I see someone has used the term that means “not held, tied, or packaged tightly” instead of the word that means “being unable to find” something.

This error first showed up in chat rooms and on bulletin boards, next, in articles and notations on websites, and then spread to legitimate newspapers and magazines.

It has finally appeared in a book I have purchased. *




* That would be the one embedded in the wall opposite from my easy chair.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

I really loose it whenever I see someone has used the term that means “not held, tied, or packaged tightly” instead of the word that means “being unable to find” something.

This error first showed up in chat rooms and on bulletin boards, next, in articles and notations on websites, and then spread to legitimate newspapers and magazines.

It has finally appeared in a book I have purchased. *
* That would be the one embedded in the wall opposite from my easy chair.

Thank God! I thought I was the only one who noticed this epidemic. It makes me nearly as crazy as when people mispronounce the word nuclear.

 

[brightlyiburn]

Thank God! I thought I was the only one who noticed this epidemic. It makes me nearly as crazy as when people mispronounce the word nuclear.

Oh, believe me, I've noticed it too.
What I can't stand is when someone is speaking and they say something like "When ever I heard what she was saying about me" and they're not talking about something that's happened a lot of times. What is so hard about "When I heard what she was saying about me"?
That drives me batty.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

Oh, believe me, I've noticed it too.
What I can't stand is when someone is speaking and they say something like "When ever I heard what she was saying about me" and they're not talking about something that's happened a lot of times. What is so hard about "When I heard what she was saying about me"?
That drives me batty.

Whenever I hear people say that, I get really pissed off too.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

Using “axed” for “asked” bugs me. I know there is some kind of black in-joke about using that pronunciation, but it really IS annoying. When the speaker is white, there is NO EXCUSE!

Also, people who critique fil-lums, especially those who have taken a film appreciation course, or read a book. It makes them sound stupid. If they want me to be impressed, they should call it a pit-chur.

Just in passing, “F L I M” is NOT an option!

 

[pop_54]

Hey Pops,

They also taste good in a stew, but it takes a lot of them.

Cat

I've heard this too mate, you also need one leg longer than the other to catch them, or of course attack from a clock-wise direction.

 

[pop_54]

Thank God! I thought I was the only one who noticed this epidemic. It makes me nearly as crazy as when people mispronounce the word nuclear.

Yea that pee's me off when they mispronounce newcleer.

 

[NoJo]

Also, people who critique fil-lums, especially those who have taken a film appreciation course, or read a book. QUOTE]

Just wanted to say, that "fillum" is how anyone from Dublin pronounces it. It's probably all the forking weskeh they drink.

 

[Lucifer_Carroll]

I'm actually a couple of people's pet peeve. I have a bad habit when speaking of mispronouncing words or using the wrong word in a sentence or getting myself tongue-tied on normal phrases. It tends to piss off a couple of my friends to no end.

Yeah, i've always thought the young=wrong, experience=right thing was always a bit silly. One doesn't need to be something to understand it and one doesn't have to not be something to utterly misinterpret it. Also the mere gaining of a title means nothing if you have no real understanding.

 

[NoJo]

I'm actually a couple of people's pet peeve. I have a bad habit when speaking of mispronouncing words or using the wrong word in a sentence or getting myself tongue-tied on normal phrases. It tends to piss off a couple of my friends to no end.
QUOTE]

I think it's cute. A lot of really smart self-educated people (like my old man), learned a lot of stuff from books, and mispronounced words because he'd only seen them written down, and never heard them.

 

[Lucifer_Carroll]

I think it's cute. A lot of really smart self-educated people (like my old man), learned a lot of stuff from books, and mispronounced words because he'd only seen them written down, and never heard them.

Makes sense. I'm a self-teaching learner and I've probably spent more time reading in some form than verbally interacting with people.

It's great fun at parties though, as I can sound like I'm plastered when I'm stone sober. It's a great defense to staying stone sober at the damn things.

 

[Guest]

maybe i should have gone back and read the posts on this thread but i cant be bothered since i ...well... im lazy

pet peeve #1 in a list of a squillion.(which may or may not have anything what so ever to do with this thread)
people who dont read the entire thread and just post willynilly.

#2
my children not flushing the toilet. i think they have seperation anxiety disorder. say good bye...youll make another.

#3
i cant be assed to think of another but im sure something will come up soon.

 

[SensualCealy]

um.....I use that word, and I'm far from stupid.

It's a regional thing, and quite accepted here. I don't use it in my writing, and it's most likely to show up when I'm angry, but assuming that someone that uses it is stupid is akin to saying if you have a southern accent, you're a redneck.

Cloudy I wasnt saying people who use the word are stupid, I was meaning the people who put it in the dictionary to begin with. Just a quirk I have, no harm to those who use it, just dont use it around me! lol (Except for you Cloudy, as long as its when you are saying, "That aint enough, do it some more! lol)

Kisses, hope I made it up to you!
C