Pet peeves

[monique1971]

Don't think you can steal our girl AND come in here and post drivel like this. There's only so much we will tolerate.

Someone stole Lorali? Huh. Why am I always the last to know?!

 

[bluebell]

Nobody puts Baby in a corner

Someone stole Lorali? Huh. Why am I always the last to know?!

You're not the last, Mo. I don't know what's going on either.
I was going to ask when (if? Ekserb could just be making shit up since it has to do with blowjobs) Lor had snagged herself a dude, but really- I didn't want to be rude seeing as she's helping to cut down on terrorism and all...

 

[Hamletmaschine]

Then you should probably do your civic duty and up your post count a whole lot.

Take that, Osama!

 

[Lorali82]

Someone stole Lorali? Huh. Why am I always the last to know?!

It's news to me too. I thought I entered the code right and everything. Stupid complicated self-burglary alarm.

 

[Ekserb]

I've touched on internet illiteracy before, but I just noticed a new form of blasphemy that really pisses me off: Since when did "I'm going to" become "ima" or "imma?"

Instead of, "You know I'm going to meet her at the mall," the kidz are writing "u no ima meet her at da mall." (Of course, I've added any punctuation seen here.)

Mother fucking punks are going to be the end of society. I swear this is it. Humanity is doomed.

This is why I'm not having children. Ever. If I so much as thought my offspring were communicating like this I'd terminate them.

 

[Ekserb]

We're circling the drain....

It's been a banner day:

While driving today I saw in the span of ONE city block: A man pissing on the side of a bus stop and the car in front of me tossing their lunch garbage onto the street. Then, when it looked as though this cycle of madness was complete, I watched a woman wipe her dog's ass after it took a shit on the sidewalk. Not only did she not clean up the pile, but she then tossed the dirty paper towel onto the grass.

Tonight I gouge out my own eyes.

 

[trysail]

Re: We're circling the drain....

I swear this is it. Humanity is doomed.

This is why I'm not having children. Ever. If I so much as thought my offspring were communicating like this I'd terminate them.

It's been a banner day...

Ahhhhh. Nothing like a little misanthropy to make my day. Ekserb, ol' buddy, ol' pal, have you been reading Mencken again?

 

[bluebell]

The better to see the strippers with, my dear

Tonight I gouge out my own eyes.

But they're so pretty.

 

[bluebell]

Blah and splat

Blast, damn and fuckety-fuck.

I just really needed to say that.



Also, I watched the movie Tideland yesterday (the new Terry Gilliam film), and it gave me really strange, nightmarish dreams. I keep thinking of a little girl cozying down to sleep with her long-since-dead-but-dried-out-and-preserved-with-disinfectant father.
Blech.

 

[monique1971]

This happens to me at work.

Occasionally we need to schedule a meeting. By the time the meeting's been scheduled, a crazily long email has been generated because no one ever lops off the old, obsolete messages that began the whole exchange. While it's true that sometimes one does need to refer back in the course of more substantive discussions, is it really necessary to have the original "How does Monday at 4 suit everyone" email that started the whole thing trailing at the end of a rapid-fire exchange from multiple individuals? Especially when most of the emails included in the string say nothing more than, "Monday won't work for me, sorry" and the like.

It just bothers me.

 

[trysail]

Pronunciation


I'm overdue, but I've been waiting for the right mood to strike me.

I've given up; it's a fact that I live in a society of total innumerates. My fellow men (and women) either don't have the ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide or they're simply too lazy to do it. They can't reconcile their checkbooks and they are complete innocents, providing easy fodder for the predators of Wall Street (who, believe me, DO know how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide).

However, I am not yet willing to concede defeat in the matter of the correct pronunciation of certain words- specifically amateur and mature.

Every time I hear one of these network entertainers (a/k/a "the news anchors-" yes, I'm talking about you, Charlie, Brian, and Katie) or (god forbid) one of the local broadcast morons pronounce either of those two words, I wince and invariably scream in anguish.

In case you haven't noticed, both amateur and mature contain the letter "t." It is not a silent "t." The words are not correctly pronounced "ama-chur" or "ma-chur." They are properly pronounced "ama-ture" and "ma-ture."

 

[Ekserb]

Every time I hear one of these network entertainers (a/k/a "the news anchors-" yes, I'm talking about you, Charlie, Brian, and Katie) or (god forbid) one of the local broadcast morons....

Dude. Do you think they read this? Why are you talking directly to them.

After reading your post, I looked up both words in the Oxford Dictionary and Dictionary.com. Both of them show multiple pronunciations, and both of them list ma-CHUR and A-ma-chur as acceptable versions.

 

[monique1971]

Dude. Do you think they read this? Why are you talking directly to them.

It would be really fucking funny if they did read this. Who knows what celebrities get up to, in the small hours of the morning?

After reading your post, I looked up both words in the Oxford Dictionary and Dictionary.com. Both of them show multiple pronunciations, and both of them list ma-CHUR and A-ma-chur as acceptable versions.

I was wondering about this too, but I was too lazy to look it up. I think that "-chur" pronunciation is more widely accepted in American English, which happens to be what I speak.

That reminds me of a pet peeve: Americans who adopt a fake English accent after spending some time in Britain. I don't care if you're a fucking Rhodes scholar. Get real and use your own accent.

 

[bluebell]

Have I made anyone mad yet?

That reminds me of a pet peeve: Americans who adopt a fake English accent after spending some time in Britain. I don't care if you're a fucking Rhodes scholar. Get real and use your own accent.

Thanks, Mo. You just released one that had been in the back of my mind.

I would also like to add the following:

1) Why the fuck do (some) people who go to Britain/another foreign country for a short trip come back assuming that makes them some kind of ambassador-expert between America and whichever country they've just come from? They'll assert anything they want because it happened during their own time there. Gawd.
(Not sure if that came out properly or clearly.)

2) If you're a fairly un-traveled American, and you're using the word "Cheers!" as a salutation during your arrival/departure rather than in a toast, you have got to quit that shit. You sound pompous, and like a foolish, pansy-ass poser. Just, no.
(Trysail is excluded from this rule. He can say anything he wants.)

 

[monique1971]

1) Why the fuck do (some) people who go to Britain/another foreign country for a short trip come back assuming that makes them some kind of ambassador-expert between America and whichever country they've just come from? They'll assert anything they want because it happened during their own time there. Gawd.
(Not sure if that came out properly or clearly.)

I read you loud and clear. I must confess that I was guilty of this at one point in my life, and then I finally realized that I was acting like an idiot.

2) If you're a fairly un-traveled American, and you're using the word "Cheers!" as a salutation during your arrival/departure rather than in a toast, you have got to quit that shit. You sound pompous, and like a foolish, pansy-ass poser. Just, no.
(Trysail is excluded from this rule. He can say anything he wants.)

Yes, yes, yes. And don't say "Cheers" by way of thanks, either. If you're an American, and an American bartender gives you a drink here in America, don't tell him/her "cheers." Please.

<throws flirtatious look at Trysail> I think he say anything he wants, too.

 

[bluebell]

You can bring your dog.

I read you loud and clear. I must confess that I was guilty of this at one point in my life, and then I finally realized that I was acting like an idiot.

Well there's the key difference. You realized.
And I'm sure you were never that annoying. You're not the person I think of as being some sort of insufferable cross-cultural know-it-all.

Yes, yes, yes. And don't say "Cheers" by way of thanks, either. If you're an American, and an American bartender gives you a drink here in America, don't tell him/her "cheers." Please.

You always know just what to say, Mo.

 

[trysail]

After reading your post, I looked up both words in the Oxford Dictionary and Dictionary.com. Both of them show multiple pronunciations, and both of them list ma-CHUR and A-ma-chur as acceptable versions.

I will yield to the authority of Oxford (but NEVER Dictionary.com!) The reason that these pronunciations are now considered acceptable is, of course, the fact that the mispronunciation has become so pervasive that it has overwhelmed the original pronunciation. Notwithstanding the fact that I am both an anachronism and a curmudgeon, I accept (but only grudgingly) the mutability of English. I am, at heart, a relic of the 19th century.

Yikes, Ekserb! Has anyone remarked that your current avatar bears a striking resemblance to Oedipus? While mine "eyes offend" me, I have not (yet) reached that extremity.

 

[bluebell]

Biblical, Oedipal Horror

Yikes, Ekserb! Has anyone remarked that your current avatar bears a striking resemblance to Oedipus? While mine "eyes offend" me, I have not (yet) reached that extremity.

Hmm...yeah, Ekserb. Have you been reading up on the Bible lately?

 

[Ekserb]

Unnecessary translations

I bought paper towels the other day. The package states "Mega Roll." Right underneath that, it's printed "Mega rollo."

Is this really necessary? I mean, really??

 

[monique1971]

I bought paper towels the other day. The package states "Mega Roll." Right underneath that, it's printed "Mega rollo."

Is this really necessary? I mean, really??

I'm going to add that to my small but ever-growing Spanish vocabulary. Can't wait to get to Mexico:

"Uno mega rollo, por favor."

 

[ScootNKit]

One of my biggest irritations is when you first join a forum and your post count is low, everyone either ignores you or calls you a noob. We all gotta start somewhere, right?

Now if I could just get a fucking avatar....

 

[Ekserb]

One of my biggest irritations is when you first join a forum and your post count is low, everyone either ignores you or calls you a noob.

Huh? What?

Fucking noobs.

 

[Lorali82]

Misspelled church marquees. I saw one today that said: "Trails are God's school of faith."

I thought it meant airplane trails for about 10 minutes, which I found to be extremely odd.

 

[Lorali82]

I bought paper towels the other day. The package states "Mega Roll." Right underneath that, it's printed "Mega rollo."

Is this really necessary? I mean, really??

Also, why can't I find just plain white paper towels in the brand I like? Why do they all have to have stupid pictures of farmhouses and daisies on them? I'm just going to be using them to wipe up cat vomit. They don't have to be all prettified for me.

 

[Ekserb]

Also, why can't I find just plain white paper towels in the brand I like? Why do they all have to have stupid pictures of farmhouses and daisies on them? I'm just going to be using them to wipe up cat vomit. They don't have to be all prettified for me.

Hahahaha. This should be in the "Favorite Things" thread: When I DO find plain white towels.