Pet Peeves!

[Lise]

By far the worst accessory that seems ever so popular with the bubbas here in GA are the truck nuts. If you don't know what I am talking about please feast your eyes here: http://www.bumpernuts.com

Wow. Maybe we should have let them secede after all.

Top pet peeves of mine:

Misuse of the apostrophe.
See my hero, Bob The Angry Flower: http://angryflower.com/aposter.html
I have this poster on my refrigerator. This week I took it to Kinkos to be laminated. I never want anything bad to happen to this poster. I saw my 7 year old nephew studying it the last time he was here. YAY!

Mistreatment of the flag. I am a bleeding heart liberal. AND I love and respect our flag. I grew up pledging allegiance to it every day, and we were taught how to honor the flag by treating it properly. It infuriated me when people displayed flags all over after 9/11/01, but then let them hang there day and night (not illuminated), in all weather (take it in when it rains), and they became faded, tattered remnants. Our flag, a tattered remnant? I was in Peru as an exchange student when I was 16. At the time, Peru was ruled by a military dictatorship. Soldiers, guns, tanks, fear, everywhere. When I saw the American flag flying at the embassy, I was grateful and proud. I'll never forget it.
One day, recently, as I was pulling out of a McDonald's, I saw some teenaged employees in the process of putting up the flag for the day. They had it in a heap on the ground. I stopped and called out the window, "You guys, the flag shouldn't touch the ground." Given that they were teenagers, I considered it possible that they'd throw something at me. But instead they grabbed up the flag and yelled, "Sorry!"

Cigarette butts. I have a fantasy in which every butt a smoker has ever thrown on the ground mysteriously ends up in their bed one day.

And, of course, loud cell phone conversations. YES, WE CAN ALL HEAR YOU!

[Kitsune06]

Some people are like Slinkies...
Not really good for anything, But they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs.

You are truly a wonderful woman, CWR. *hug* That saying has a special place in my heart.

Bumper nuts-
I find it really funny that they have a subaru on the main bumper nuts page. I thought Subarus were pretty stereotypically driven by l... ...nevermind.
Also...
Doesn't having an 8" pair of nuts on the back of a big, 3/4-1ton truck make the nuts look really, really, really, just terrifically little and inadequate? (Though a truck that big screams "COMPENSATION!" anyway...)

Pet Peeves: (note: both links contain comics that may be offensive to the sensitive *you know who you are*, so to be fair, you've been warned. )

1) I'm a "grammar nazi". Yes. I know I use and abuse the (...) but when one is accustomed to speech online, the (...) have come to signal a longer pause where the use of a comma would be otherwise inappropriate. Bad spelling makes me sad, but I've come to realize that bad spellers are not bad people. Just, please, remember 'your/you're, to/too/two, lose/loose, they're/their/there'. Think of the children!
1a) APOSTROPHIES!
1b) PUNCTUATION IS A TOOL, NOT A TOY.

2) Stupidity. If you don't know, please ask. I can take all the stupid questions in the world. I can. But if I TELL you, don't turn around and SCREW IT UP AGAIN. There are REASONS why I've had a 6 month long, on and off eyetwitch after starting work as a Security Officer. *twitch*

3) Rudeness/coarse behavior/childishness: If you're over 18, you better act like it. I'm sick of talking to people my age, and feeling like I'm talking to children (No, college is *not* high school with beer and cigarettes!) or worse, someone older than me, with kids my age (or younger) who are acting like children and obviously setting a craptacular example for their kids. Then they go and complain about kids these days. WTF?!

I must come off as a b*tchy something-or-other, but I'm SO tired of seeing/meeting people whose shins are begging for a good kicking, and I'm *always* wearing my steel-toed Docs.

[postiechic]

bumpernuts.........
as they say...."only in America!"
gawwwd
please don't let someone discover them and import them here

[pyxichick]

This thread is making my day. I thought I was already as amused as I could possibly be until I read the second link on Kitsune's post.

Thank you for that.

My pet peeve is malapropisms. I had a boss who used to say "The onerous is on you."

Oh, and apostrophe misuse. But not sentence fragments.

[Kitsune06]

"The onerous is on you."

Glad I could amuse, Pyxi. =D

"The onerous is on you." SO reminds me of Kingdom of Loathing's "An Adventurer is You!"
...oops! My gamer is showing!

[dachshund]

And why do people say "utilize" when they could just say "use"?

Yes, this one cracks me up. I'll never be able to say this word, ever again.

My pet peeve is agressive drivers. Maybe I'm turning into a little old lady in my car, but I've had it up to my eyeballs with the idiots who do everything short of driving me off the road, just so they can get to the next stop light sooner. They're so rude! And unsafe! But you can't honk your horn any more, that just makes it worse. They're so rude!

[Kano]

I'm starting to wonder if there's a new, obscure "left turn on red into lotsof traffic as long as you've stopped and sat in the left turn lane for a moment" law here in Idaho.

And I'm also concerned about the use of too in the same sentence as the word also too.

but: if you loose enough weight then you ARE talking about baggy pants!

Febuary
Crans (for coloring)

lawn mowers that don't work properly

putting my fingers on the wrong keys on the keyboard and having to retype everything...

Wouldn't it be nice if some people really did "literally blow up???"

Karen in Boise

[Bron]

Smoking. Why do people consider that it is their right to poison everyone around them?

Misuse of the apostrophe is annoying too. Has anyone read "Eats, shoots and leaves" by Lynne Truss? She has dedicated a whole chapter to the apostrophe.

Bron

[crazycanuck]

Misuse of countables/non countables...It drives me up the wall when my boss says "there is 6 blah blah in blah blah"....I taught ESL and can't believe native speakers get it wrong...URGH

The use of advice and advise...LEARN PLEASE..before i pop into little Canadian parts.

In Australia, there are alot of words that are shortened but they drive me nuts! Servo(service station) is one of them. Don't get me started on Mate and No Worries...

When people call me American...I AM NOT AMERICAN..I AM CANADIAN thank you very much and YES there is a difference. DO NOT GO DOWN THIS GARDEN PATH...

K..cranky person here again..Children on planes, trains, restaurants & most places in general. Parents learn how to handle your sprogs & stay out of my way. If your children can't behave in public don't go out. Period. Keep your whinging sprogs at home.

That's enough for now. I'll go and pop into little bike parts ..

c

[Kano]

K..cranky person here again..Children on planes, trains, restaurants & most places in general. Parents learn how to handle your sprogs & stay out of my way. If your children can't behave in public don't go out. Period. Keep your whinging sprogs at home.c

I have a 22 year-old daughter who, until very recently, and from the time she was not much more than a small child herself, always said that children should be kept in "Borg Maturation Chambers" until they're full grown and civilized. She's gotten to know a coupld of very small children now, and has a bit more tolerance, but yeah -- when we take the wee creatures out in public, every effort is made to contain them and not bother others on accounta we hate the being bothered by other wee brats!!

The sad part is we've learned where not to go at what times, like, stay out of grocery stores between about 4:30p.m. and midnight! (leave the kids and one of you home with them at that hour for crying out loud. Grocery shopping does NOT have to be a family affair!)

Karen in Boise

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

In Australia, there are alot of words that are shortened but they drive me nuts! Servo(service station) is one of them.

I particularly despise "addy" for address, and " 'puter " for computer. Nauseatingly cute. How lazy can you get?

[Melstar]

Pet peeve? THe word "like". Its like so.. like kinda like... like that, you feel me?

The people i work with absolutely love using the word "like"... in fact some of the guys do it too.. whats more infuriating is I'm beginning to catch myself talking LIKE that all the time LIKE when i'm talking to my like friends?

But i'm kinda like getting used to it...

[Tater]

I'm starting to wonder if there's a new, obscure "left turn on red into lotsof traffic as long as you've stopped and sat in the left turn lane for a moment" law here in Idaho.
Karen in Boise

Amen, sister!

My peeves:
- goatheads in my tires
- rude, immature, ill-mannered, disrespectful teenagers
- iPod nation. Everyone has one and they wear it everywhere!
- people who think they know more than they actually do
- glass in the bike lane
- kids who go bananas because mom said no to something they wanted.
- people who leave the shopping buggy in the middle of the lane, then get all bent out of shape when I say 'scuse me and try to pass by.
- over ripe bananas and squishy nectarines
That's about it for now.

[Kano]

OOh! yesterday in the big W-store, in one of the grocery aisles, a lady left her cart right in the middle, and went to another aisle! We were stuck, waiting to get through, since there were other people too, including an old guy, standing in JUST the right spot to keep all these people bottled up. I thought the cart had to be his, since there was no one else to claim it.

The lady came back from wherever and walked away with the cart, leaving the old guy behind. He promptly moved so that he could be much more in the way than he suddenly was.

Gotta admit, every now and then, my daughter and I will decide that when in Rome, we should be doing as the Romans do, and make every effort to block up an entire aisle too. Until someone wants to use it, that is!

Karen in Boise

[chickwhorips]

I'm SO tired of seeing/meeting people whose shins are begging for a good kicking, and I'm *always* wearing my steel-toed Docs.

you learn well my child.

when i leave here and go back to "society" everything seems to annoy me. i think i've become to "bushey".