silly pet peeves...

[Whispersecret]

My pet peeve?

<clears throat>

Two words:

Me bad.

'Nough said.

 

[cymbidia]

I have a 12 year old daughter.
The word "like" drives me into, like, screaming fits sometimes.

 

[LittleRedDevil]

I think I've created a monster!

 

[nitengale]

pain relief

I realize when one is in pain I should be more tolerable...

BUT

The word is EPIDURAL...not EPIDERMAL.

 

[SweetNick]

I'm a guy, but this one bothers the HELL out of me. When you are in a club, or bar where there is a lot of dancing on, and a guy slowly "sneaks" up on some girl and starts dancing and grinding on her. Did she ask you to do that? Do you think I want to play boyfriend for every girl I'm there with? Do you not understand the concept of personal space? How about asking first, perhaps even trying to talk? Jackasses.

Another one, is my boss. Yes, everyone hates their boss at one point in their life. She's been in the field for 9 months now, yet won't take advice from someone who's been in it for 3 years. For God's sake, she doesn't know everything, and her way isn't always right. But try telling that to someone who's ScreenSaver says the following in a scroll: Hello Princess!!!

 

[Mensa]

Re: Oh, and another peeve!

If someone lives in the States, they should leave the damned 'u' out of words like color and favor. Anglophiliacs!

When somebody doesn't live in the States, they should put the damned 'u' into words like colour and favour, where it properly belongs. Anglophobics!!LOL

 

[OUTSIDER]

Watches with out proper numbers...digitals are fine, but I just hate fashion watches with no numbers and I'm no fan of roman numerals either...wierd I know but there you go.

 

[Mensa]

This could go on forever!

What about people who don't know the difference between affect and effect?

What about those annoying Madison Avenue creations such as 'Lite' beer, 'Nite' instead of night, 'Luv' instead of love, and my personal favo'u'rite 'E-Z' clean. Outside the U.S. that reads E-Zed clean not E-Zee clean!

 

[Mensa]

Watches with out proper numbers...digitals are fine, but I just hate fashion watches with no numbers and I'm no fan of roman numerals either...wierd I know but there you go.

OUTSIDER, your post reminded me of something concerning timepieces that I found interesting. You may have seen them, clocks that have Roman numerals. On some of these they have the number shown as IIII instead of the appropriate IV. This was all due to King Louis XIV of France.

A clockmaker had created a new timepiece to present to the King. Louis was apparently somewhat notorious as a bit of a nit-picker. He looked the clock over and was annoyed that he could find nothing amiss. So he created a mistake. He told the clockmaker that he'd got the number four wrong and that it should read IIII instead of his IV. Now everyone knew that Louis was wrong but no one was brave enough to tell him so, instead they changed the clock. That's why you will still see clocks carrying on the mistake.

See what you can get away with when you have absolute power?

 

[KillerMuffin]

*ahem*

"..." <-- this is not punctuation to be taken lightly. Commas, periods, semi-colons, and colons were invented for a reason.

So......don't just type the "..." marks....they aren't...not really..........cute....not to mention..........there's three.....count 'em...... three of the darned things...........unless of course.....they come at the end of a sentence.......then.....and only then..... is more than three.......permissable.........oh yeah..... it's "..."....NOT ",,,,,,"........ I can't believe people misspell a dratted punctuation mark...........

 

[OUTSIDER]

Watches with out proper numbers...digitals are fine, but I just hate fashion watches with no numbers and I'm no fan of roman numerals either...wierd I know but there you go.

OUTSIDER, your post reminded me of something concerning timepieces that I found interesting. You may have seen them, clocks that have Roman numerals. On some of these they have the number shown as IIII instead of the appropriate IV. This was all due to King Louis XIV of France.

A clockmaker had created a new timepiece to present to the King. Louis was apparently somewhat notorious as a bit of a nit-picker. He looked the clock over and was annoyed that he could find nothing amiss. So he created a mistake. He told the clockmaker that he'd got the number four wrong and that it should read IIII instead of his IV. Now everyone knew that Louis was wrong but no one was brave enough to tell him so, instead they changed the clock. That's why you will still see clocks carrying on the mistake.

See what you can get away with when you have absolute power?

Damn royalty has a lot to answer for....

 

[Song]

Apostrophe's in the wrong place's. I mean, how hard is it, folk's? Use an apostrophe with a possesive or as a contraction with "is", but not with a plural. And this *particularly* drives me nut's on "professionally" made sign's. (I feel so sinful--it's stretching my self control to actually post this with all of those misplaced apostrophes!)

Newscasters and headlines that don't use any form of "to be". (And sometimes not even bothering with a verb in the sentence, at all.) "The 49ers playing Los Angeles today." "President Clinton in Yugoslavia tomorrow." They're little words, they don't take much time or space--why don't people use them?

The fact that, while driving to work, at 7:30 - 7:35 and 8:00 - 8:05, all *seven* of my preset radio stations are on commercials.

 

[Derya]

Males who order for their female companions when at a restaurant

Call waiting

People who are squeamish about bugs

Christmas cards that aren't really cards, but just family pictures (ok to put a pic in the card, but don't make the pic a postcard type thing)

http://megsplace.com/dolls/hatnature.gif

 

[Problem Child]

Dolls. (sorry, you asked )

Kids with pants so baggy that they actually have to walk around holding them up because of course its not cool to wear a belt.

Not enough checkers at the supermarket

Drive-thru employees that dump my bag of fries upside down. And when I said no pickles and no onions I fucking meant it. You think I WON'T drive through again just to tell you about it for 5 minutes and clog the line?

Infomercials.

Kids that swear in public, especially around older people.

Politicians that tell me it's "for the children".

Newscasters that try to boost ratings by telling us that there has been an outbreak of E. Coli in a local fast food restaurant in our area...but we'll have to stay tuned until the end of the broadcast to find out where.

People with more than one drunk driving arrest that aren't in jail.

Long walks on the beach. Sunsets. Romantic candlelight dinners.

Small dogs that bark a lot.

The WWF.

Reality shows.

Oprah Winfrey.

The door on my truck, which lately doesn't close all the way unless I slam it.

Excessive taxation, over-regulation, affirmative action, political correctness, and Bill Maher.

Running out of clean underwear.

No milk in the house.

Christmas shopping. Fuck it...Christmas.

Any athlete that makes over a million a year, and isn't thanking God every day for it.

Slow dial-ups.

that's all








[Edited by Problem Child on 04-30-2001 at 11:11 PM]

 

[lavender]

 

[Silverlily]

The various misspellings of the word underwear.

The lost variety - underwhere
The formerly known as variety - underwere
And my all time favorite, the indestructible, steel alloy, you can eat with it variety - underware

 

[Renegade]

People who won't admit when they're wrong. That just gets to me at times. Like when someone starts to debate with you about something and then try to change the subject when they know they're wrong or get nasty about it. That bugs me sometimes.

 

[Cheyenne]

Oh, yeah. And people who say "irregardless".

As in, "Irregardless, the announcement today negatively impacted my stock options."

Oh, boy. About 20 years ago I had a staff auditor working for me who answered a partner's audit comment with something like "there is no such word as irregardless" when the partner used it. The idiot didn't answer the guy's question, just insulted him for not using a proper word. And then I had to be the referee and agree with the staff person that the partner was wrong. Did not go over well.
I also hate that word.

 

[LittleRedDevil]

Watches with out proper numbers...digitals are fine, but I just hate fashion watches with no numbers and I'm no fan of roman numerals either...wierd I know but there you go.

OUTSIDER, your post reminded me of something concerning timepieces that I found interesting. You may have seen them, clocks that have Roman numerals. On some of these they have the number shown as IIII instead of the appropriate IV. This was all due to King Louis XIV of France.

A clockmaker had created a new timepiece to present to the King. Louis was apparently somewhat notorious as a bit of a nit-picker. He looked the clock over and was annoyed that he could find nothing amiss. So he created a mistake. He told the clockmaker that he'd got the number four wrong and that it should read IIII instead of his IV. Now everyone knew that Louis was wrong but no one was brave enough to tell him so, instead they changed the clock. That's why you will still see clocks carrying on the mistake.

See what you can get away with when you have absolute power?

The clock tower on my campus has IIII instead of IV.

 

[Cheyenne]

*ahem*

"..." <-- this is not punctuation to be taken lightly. Commas, periods, semi-colons, and colons were invented for a reason.

So......don't just type the "..." marks....they aren't...not really..........cute....not to mention..........there's three.....count 'em...... three of the darned things

Hee hee- you must have been talking to Samuari recently. I drive him nuts........with that one.

 

[LittleRedDevil]

Dolls. (sorry, you asked )

Kids with pants so baggy that they actually have to walk around holding them up because of course its not cool to wear a belt.

Not enough checkers at the supermarket

Drive-thru employees that dump my bag of fries upside down. And when I said no pickles and no onions I fucking meant it. You think I WON'T drive through again just to tell you about it for 5 minutes and clog the line?

Infomercials.

Kids that swear in public, especially around older people.

Politicians that tell me it's "for the children".

Newscasters that try to boost ratings by telling us that there has been an outbreak of E. Coli in a local fast food restaurant in our area...but we'll have to stay tuned until the end of the broadcast to find out where.

People with more than one drunk driving arrest that aren't in jail.

Long walks on the beach. Sunsets. Romantic candlelight dinners.

Small dogs that bark a lot.

The WWF.

Reality shows.

Oprah Winfrey.

The door on my truck, which lately doesn't close all the way unless I slam it.

Excessive taxation, over-regulation, affirmative action, political correctness, and Bill Maher.

Running out of clean underwear.

No milk in the house.

Christmas shopping. Fuck it...Christmas.

Any athlete that makes over a million a year, and isn't thanking God every day for it.

Slow dial-ups.

that's all








[Edited by Problem Child on 04-30-2001 at 11:11 PM]

Are you sure?

 

[Cheyenne]

Watches with out proper numbers...digitals are fine, but I just hate fashion watches with no numbers and I'm no fan of roman numerals either...wierd I know but there you go.

OUTSIDER, your post reminded me of something concerning timepieces that I found interesting. You may have seen them, clocks that have Roman numerals. On some of these they have the number shown as IIII instead of the appropriate IV. This was all due to King Louis XIV of France.

A clockmaker had created a new timepiece to present to the King. Louis was apparently somewhat notorious as a bit of a nit-picker. He looked the clock over and was annoyed that he could find nothing amiss. So he created a mistake. He told the clockmaker that he'd got the number four wrong and that it should read IIII instead of his IV. Now everyone knew that Louis was wrong but no one was brave enough to tell him so, instead they changed the clock. That's why you will still see clocks carrying on the mistake.

See what you can get away with when you have absolute power?

AH! I bought a gold Swiss watch a few years ago and really only looked at style when I picked it out. I got the watch home and actually looked at it to use it- the IV was a IIII! I took the watch back to the jewelry store to complain that quality control had broken down somewhere in the production of this watch, no famous watch company could be so ignorant as to use IIII instead of IV. The clerk looked at me like I was crazy and pointed out a whole display of watches just like mine. She said they made them all that way because it was easier to read IIII. I like your explanation better.