Biggest pet peeve

[channlluv]

misplaced apostrophe's


And whoa, whoa, whoa...I don't know a thing about Bachmann's husband. She's a nutbar. Didn't know a thing about him. Where's this video?

Roxy

[Mako]

When people borrow things and then have the nerve to return them when they look like they've been dragged through a hedge backwards

I lent a co-worker a book once and I was appalled at the state that it was returned, all dog-eared and battered

[Jen12]

When people borrow things and then have the nerve to return them when they look like they've been dragged through a hedge backwards

I lent a co-worker a book once and I was appalled at the state that it was returned, all dog-eared and battered

I don't care so much about the state of books if someone actually reads them, but when I let someone borrow things and don't ever get them back again, it makes me nuts.

I loaned someone a CD and months later asked for it back. He told me he thought it got lost in his recent move and asked what he could do to make it up to me.

duh...buy me a replacement!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Bethany1]

My biggest pet peeve are cars that try to pass more than one car at a time or attempting to pass a semi truck(s). Some guy almost killed his family in front of me yesterday and I get near misses everytime I use the road.

My two lane road has turned into I-29 since the bridges are out and people drive like they are still on it. The weekends are even worse.

[DebSP]

Please don't stand in doorways to chat. It makes me crazy. If you see some one you want to talk to going through in the opposite direction, BOTH of you should move aside to GET OUT OF THE WAY! Sorry but it makes me nuts along with the shopping cart thing. The chatty shoppers in the narrow aisles. You know what I am talking about!

[Mako]

Queue jumpers

There's a line of people for a reason! This really infuriates me

[malkin]

I can let the apostrophes slide in casual writing like email and discussion boards, but I can't believe it when I see random apostrophes in formal documents written by people with graduate degrees.

And it is work, so I can't give them this:
http://www.angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif

(although I have it posted on my bulletin board.)

[indysteel]

misplaced apostrophe's

Please tell me that your use of an apostrophe above was meant to be ironic!

[Crankin]

Oh G-d, the apostrophe thing .
Somewhere, somehow, people have it in their mind that you use an apostrophe whenever there is an "s" at the end of a word. Noooooo! Plain old plural words don't use an apostrophe.
People, an apostrophe is used to show possession! That means when something belongs to something or someone else.
The only other time is when you have a contraction.
I admit, I get roiled when I see this misuse here on TE.

[KnottedYet]

And whoa, whoa, whoa...I don't know a thing about Bachmann's husband. She's a nutbar. Didn't know a thing about him. Where's this video?

Roxy

Marcus Bachmann. He's an "ex"-gay, and like so many closet-cases, he is deeply involved in anti-gay politics and spends his time wallowing in gay culture while counseling young gay men to become straight. (much like George Rekers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Rekers and many others: Ted Haggard, Eddie Long, Larry Craig, etc. )

He doesn't have a license to practice, but he found a loophole because the state doesn't require it for what he does. He owns and runs a religious-based psychotherapy clinic that counsels young gay men to pray to become straight and to act more masculine using examples from the Bible. (Hmmm, Jonathan and David come to mind as strong manly examples... oh, wait, they were gay... http://wouldjesusdiscriminate.org/bi..._jonathan.html )

Bachmann has taken hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to fund his pray-away-the-gay clinic. He and his wife spew horrible cr@p about gays. One of the milder things he's said is that gays are "barbarians" bent on the destruction of all of Western society. (And here I thought that 10% of the population just wanted their Constitutional right to equal protection under the law so they could raise their kids and take care of their families... )

Anyway, a group dressed as "barbarians" tossed glitter around his clinic in protest.
The best coverage is -of course- from European media: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...nn-clinic.html

[redrhodie]

My biggest cycling pet peeve is when a driver passes you, then stops to let a car approaching from the opposite direction turn left in front of them, and you by default. It's like an invitation to a left hook party.

Non cycling, noisy neighbors.