Silly things that make you irrationately/unproportionately annoyed or upset

[Chromatose]

Quick searches show that different style guides believe different things, so it would seem there is no set rule.

Math has its own rules, English you can do whatever you want.

edit: Actually it would seem that the "best" way to do it is to avoid nested parentheses altogether, as it's completely unnecessary. That would be why these guides don't deal with it.

 

[El Stormo]

'twould seem so...

 

[Tide In Mind Out]

Pretty sure I learned parentheses on the outside and brackets on the inside as well. Like the parenthesis is the mother (parent? heh) and the bracket is the child of the parenthesis being brought in to help out in the situation.

 

[Chromatose]

Best I can do, I found this

http://www.strose.edu/download.aspx?libitemid=11907&file=Brackets Handout-Cynthia2.pdf

3. To replace parentheses within parentheses:
Ex. Nancy noticed that her daughter, Tabatha, tends to omit “s” sounds while speaking.
Concerned that Tabatha may need special speech assistance, Nancy consulted with the
elementary school. (The school’s speech-language pathologist [SLP] will need to meet with
both Nancy and Tabatha.)
*Notice that the writer places the acronym for speech-language pathologist in brackets within the parentheses.


"The following resources were consulted in the design of this handout:
Harris, M. (2008). Prentice hall reference guide (7th ed.) New Jersey: Upper Saddle River."

 

[El Stormo]

Weird. I am 100% convinced that in Flemish, it's the other way 'round. Ah well.

 

[WhiteBeastofWotan]

I think I learned it the "Flemish" way.

 

[Captain Beard]

I'll put parentheses wherever I need them.

 

[Dead Winter]

When you put 10 euros in the cigarette machine and it only lets you make a single choice before spitting out your change, then you have to put the change in all over again and make another choice.

 

[Captain Beard]

Real men smoke cigars.

 

[Dead Winter]

I smoke a pipe. It doesn't get much more manly than that.

 

[Chromatose]

I'll put parentheses wherever I need them.

They're hidden behind ninjas.

And you can't see ninjas, until it's too late!

 

[JBroll]

In math it's an insane free-for-all and some contexts explicitly forbid any interchange - it's safer to just use parentheses all the time.

Jeff

 

[El Stormo]

When you share computers with coworkers and nobody ever cleans the old ball-equipped mouse...

 

[Shpongled]

When someone uses all three washing machines in my apartment building at the same time. ALL NIGHT LONG.

 

[Det Som Engang Var]

I smoke a pipe. It doesn't get much more manly than that.

Damn right.

 

[Morganna]

And the art theft. And the MySpace-style photos. And the sick porno.

oh yeah, I keep hearing about the art theft coming from people out of there. I think its mostly people that are not even members of the site, but just kind of cherry pick, and think they will never get caught.

 

[Morganna]

People looking over your shoulder while you're on the computer. And those who are waiting for me to finish on the computer, and creep up real close behind me so they get the comp after I leave.

This is, and was one of my biggest things to upset me over the years.

Now that I don't have to share the PC anymore, I don't have the get off, gargoyle anymore. Thinking about it makes me want to punch a baby though. I'm on it an hour and they are having PC withdraws, so lets annoy me into getting up under duress.

The looking over my shoulder thing I still get from time to time.

 

[Morganna]

when people go "Awwww."
It drives me fucking nuts for some reason.

Awwwwwwwwww! Sorry I was thinking of kittens.

I know, I know, I just had to really fess up, because I say aww, all the time. *bites finger nails* I can't help it, if its cute, I have to call it.

 

[El Stormo]

*head explodes due to triple post*

 

[WhiteBeastofWotan]

Yeah they're pretty silly