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Pet Peeves
- Thread starter dukebound85
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I didn't read all of the pages on this thread but here's what annoys me:
1. sucking fingers when eating (gross)
2. when people redundantly use the word currently, (ie. I am currently listening to music)
3. poor grammar
4. internet, text speak
5. trying to read very bad handwriting
Those are just a few for me.
1. sucking fingers when eating (gross)
2. when people redundantly use the word currently, (ie. I am currently listening to music)
3. poor grammar
4. internet, text speak
5. trying to read very bad handwriting
Those are just a few for me.
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I am currently doing this, mmk? I sorry their sticky and I haz 2 lik 'em.
O and if u board u can read tis:
OMG, ROFL *sarcasm*
I am currently doing this, mmk? I sorry their sticky and I haz 2 lik 'em.
O and if u board u can read tis:
That was pretty funny though.
That picture of they guy eating the hamburger reminds me of the scene in Fight Club when Meat Loaf is eating a Krispy Kreme doughnut when he meets Edward Norton on the street. He drops the doughnut, licks all of his fingers then shakes Edward Norton's hand. Every time I see that scene I almost throw up in my mouth.
One more thing to add to the list of pet peeves, bad music. I live right above a bar and on Friday and Saturday nights the Chads and Trixies will inevitably end up playing some really bad tunes. There have been nights when I will go downstairs put $10 in the juke box and play some heavy metal if it gets really annoying.
Yeah I couldn't resist.
I'd see if you could buy a jukebox pass and play the music you want to hear.
Yeah I couldn't resist.
I'd see if you could buy a jukebox pass and play the music you want to hear.
I am good friends with the owner of the bar so I usually won't interrupt the Trixie and Chad fun until around 1:30am when the bar has announced last call. We have to make sure that the people spending money there are just a little happy even if it inconveniences me. It is pretty funny watching the look on peoples faces when Iron Maiden comes on just after some lame lady caca song.
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These people learned how to type in a classroom.
I still do it, but the editor here removes the extra space.
Drivers that are way too cautious. I often ride home from work on my mountain bike and the amount of people who slow down right behind me when there is loads of room to overtake does my nut in!
Pedestrians who just step out onto road without looking for bikes! I nearly hit at least one a day by them doing this! They just step right off the curb without looking and i have to swerve quickly to avoid them. Luckily i now always assume they will do it so i am usually ready to take evasive action!
People who eat/drink loudly! Annoys the hell out of me! I once got up in the middle of a meal and walked off because a friend of a friend was there chomping on his food for all to see and making loud sucking noises when drinking his cola!
People who go to the cinema to eat! Jesus christ! You're in a film for 90 mins (on average)! Cant you at least stop filling your face for this amount of time! You're free to stuff junk food in at most other times! M&Ms are ok though. Its the big hotdogs, chilli burgers etc that annoys me.
People who step out of shops and dont look where they are going! Ok so you have or haven't bought anything and it is a busy day in town so there are lots of people out and about. I think i will step right out of the shop whilst looking anywhere but at the people who are walking towards me!!!! Bump! Oh i didn't see you there! Of course you didn't you foolish gimp!! You look with your eyes and they were looking back into the shop at your friend who was still inside!!
Then to make matters worse if you are in a hurry and they step out in front of you, you have to slow down! And majority of the time they walk so goddamn slow! Im always like 'oh here we go again! They’re off like a herd of turtles.'
Text Speak My facebook is full of people who do this! Im sorry but most of you work at computers for 8 hours a day! Are you telling me you cant at least type a few basic words!! It doesn't take any longer! How can you use a keyboard for that amount of time and not pick the basics up!!! This is an example of a woman on my facebook. Her last update read 'Is Ina Supa Dupa Mood! Defo Got The Friday Feelin! This Wkends Gna B The One!! N Next Wk Spa Time!!' Aargh!! You typed this on a blackberry so you have a full keyboard! Stop making excuses and use real words! Excuses are like backsides. Everybody’s got one and they all stink.
Thats enough for now. Unfortunately i've had a stressful morning and i had to let it all out. Sorry guys
Pedestrians who just step out onto road without looking for bikes! I nearly hit at least one a day by them doing this! They just step right off the curb without looking and i have to swerve quickly to avoid them. Luckily i now always assume they will do it so i am usually ready to take evasive action!
People who eat/drink loudly! Annoys the hell out of me! I once got up in the middle of a meal and walked off because a friend of a friend was there chomping on his food for all to see and making loud sucking noises when drinking his cola!
People who go to the cinema to eat! Jesus christ! You're in a film for 90 mins (on average)! Cant you at least stop filling your face for this amount of time! You're free to stuff junk food in at most other times! M&Ms are ok though. Its the big hotdogs, chilli burgers etc that annoys me.
People who step out of shops and dont look where they are going! Ok so you have or haven't bought anything and it is a busy day in town so there are lots of people out and about. I think i will step right out of the shop whilst looking anywhere but at the people who are walking towards me!!!! Bump! Oh i didn't see you there! Of course you didn't you foolish gimp!! You look with your eyes and they were looking back into the shop at your friend who was still inside!!
Then to make matters worse if you are in a hurry and they step out in front of you, you have to slow down! And majority of the time they walk so goddamn slow! Im always like 'oh here we go again! They’re off like a herd of turtles.'
Text Speak My facebook is full of people who do this! Im sorry but most of you work at computers for 8 hours a day! Are you telling me you cant at least type a few basic words!! It doesn't take any longer! How can you use a keyboard for that amount of time and not pick the basics up!!! This is an example of a woman on my facebook. Her last update read 'Is Ina Supa Dupa Mood! Defo Got The Friday Feelin! This Wkends Gna B The One!! N Next Wk Spa Time!!' Aargh!! You typed this on a blackberry so you have a full keyboard! Stop making excuses and use real words! Excuses are like backsides. Everybody’s got one and they all stink.
Thats enough for now. Unfortunately i've had a stressful morning and i had to let it all out. Sorry guys
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- YouTube comments
- When people talk about what they did on Facebook the night before
- Facebook.com
One of mine is drivers making a right turn who only look to the left for oncoming traffic, and not to the right for pedestrians!
Out of place lectures on the 'correct' use of English.
Apart from this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7E-aoXLZGY
Apart from this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7E-aoXLZGY
Christmas. Bah freakin' humbug.
Ok, more to the point: insane over commericalization of Christmas. Christmas decorations in stores in October or earlier. Non-stop Christmas commercials on TV starting the day after Halloween. Christmas carols playing in stores in November.
Ok, more to the point: insane over commericalization of Christmas. Christmas decorations in stores in October or earlier. Non-stop Christmas commercials on TV starting the day after Halloween. Christmas carols playing in stores in November.
Pedestrians who just step out onto road without looking for bikes! I nearly hit at least one a day by them doing this! They just step right off the curb without looking and i have to swerve quickly to avoid them. Luckily i now always assume they will do it so i am usually ready to take evasive action!
This very thing happened to me in early September. I bit the road hard. Bad road rash. It amazes me how many people just walk out into the street without looking. I crashed even when I was assuming they would walk out.
What happened was someone was walking across, I moved the the right side, behind them, so she would pass. She decided to stop walking, trying to anticipate my movements. But because I was already anticipating hers, I assumed she would keep walking. Wrong! Down I went. Ouch
That's a perfectly acceptable usage of the word currently.
Double spaces after periods are also grammatically correct. Only in recent years did the one space become acceptable. I think one space looks like ass, and can't stand how websites force the two spaces down to one. I would never, ever submit anything written with a single space between sentences.
Luckily i havent come off yet but without being big-headed it has always been down to me assuming control rather than them. I know just what you mean though. They get the rabbit in the headlight look and almost mirror what you do. You go to the right, they try to. Left the same. I have found that people tend to think because they cant hear a cars engine then it is safe to cross!
Yes there is.
Example:
"My interests currently lie in xxxxx." Sure you can say, "My interests lie in xxxxx," but it's not the same nuance. The former is to suggest that the interests are subject to change, and that they are relevant primarily to/at this point in time; the latter suggests that it is not open to change. The use of currently suggest a focus on time with respect to the interests, the latter does not. Different.
The nuance is different.
There is a proper usage for that word, and it does differentiate the nuances in sentences.
It's also used to clarify. Talking on the phone to someone:
"I'm going to the store"
"I'm currently going to the store."
The person on the other end of the phone doesn't necessarily know for sure if you are going to the store right now, and are in your car, or if you are going to the store later in the first example. It's vague. In the second example, it's used to clarify that the event is taking place right now; there is no ambiguity as to when.
I teach this stuff for a living all day every day...
This one is the one that really angers me. You have a full keyboard-take the extra second to type two extra characters when you say you!Text Speak My facebook is full of people who do this! Im sorry but most of you work at computers for 8 hours a day! Are you telling me you cant at least type a few basic words!! It doesn't take any longer! How can you use a keyboard for that amount of time and not pick the basics up!!! This is an example of a woman on my facebook. Her last update read 'Is Ina Supa Dupa Mood! Defo Got The Friday Feelin! This Wkends Gna B The One!! N Next Wk Spa Time!!' Aargh!! You typed this on a blackberry so you have a full keyboard! Stop making excuses and use real words! Excuses are like backsides. Everybodys got one and they all stink.
Extremely immature people that go online and post stuff.
This kid was insulting people for having bad insults or something, and he was using horrible grammar the whole time. I commented on that; here is his reply.
This kid was insulting people for having bad insults or something, and he was using horrible grammar the whole time. I commented on that; here is his reply.
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