The Pet Peeve thread

[nafnikufesin]

List your pet peeves here.

First one that comes to my mind for me are movie titles that are spelled incorrectly or needlessly abbreviated (ie. "Antz" or "Cradle 2 the Grave"--just spell the fucking word!!!)

 

[Jax]

I can expand on that idea by saying it drives me insane when people abbreviate crap like "r" or "u" or the like.."how old r u?"..wtf is that? Is a three letter word THAT hard to spell out? Gosh, their English teachers must be SO proud *sarcastic cough*.

Or "yer"..you save typing one freaking letter by saying "yer" instead of "your"..wtf kinda crap is that? UGGHH that shit just makes me crazy.

 

[nafnikufesin]

My wife is an English teacher, and kids actually hand essays in with that shit. They're lucky I'm not marking it...if it were up to me, it would be an automatic fail.

 

[Jax]

No way?!?!? They actually do that crap in school too?!?

 

[nafnikufesin]

Yeah, and these kids are supposed to be in grade 12. The spelling and grammar is more like a grade 6 level. It's pretty disgusting. Computer spell-checkers and downloaded prewritten essays have ruined kids abilities to think for themselves.

Fuck, I'm sounding old. "Back in my day, we had to use a dictionary to check our spelling, and we had to walk ten miles to school each day..."

 

[Weapon X]

People who spell with ALL CAPS on. Even worse are those that SpElL lIkE tHiS, It FuCkIn DrIvEs Me NuTs. :angry:

People who can't shut up in a theatre. Go to a bar or coffee house to talk.

 

[nafnikufesin]

Yeah, people that can't put their cell phones or pagers on vibrate in a theatre. It's not that hard to switch it, morons!

 

[Rusty]

"From whence"

 

[NaTaSMAI]

When English teachers misspell stupid words like onomatopoeia and get mad when you try and correct them.

 

[Jax]

People with crying infants who don't take the screaming child out of the theater during a movie.

People with infants on airplanes who don't think to give them something to suck on (bottle, pacifier) during takeoff/landing to help the pressure in their ears (since they can't pop their ears like we can)..thus leaving them with a baby screaming in pain & the rest of the passengers wanting to smack the parent for being stupid.

People coming to the US & expecting us to cater to their language rather than learning ours.

 

[nafnikufesin]

Mmmmmmmm...onomatopoeia

 

[Jax]

Originally posted by NaTaSMAI
When English teachers misspell stupid words like onomatopoeia and get mad when you try and correct them.

I had an English teacher misspell a word on the blackboard once, & when we pointed it out to her, she started crying..

She left the next semester after having a nervous breakdown..doh!

 

[Weapon X]

Originally posted by nafnikufesin
Mmmmmmmm...onomatopoeia

I couldn't spell that word if I tried

 

[NaTaSMAI]

Originally posted by Lady of the Oracle
I had an English teacher misspell a word on the blackboard once, & when we pointed it out to her, she started crying..

She left the next semester after having a nervous breakdown..doh!

 

[Warrior of Ice]

I hate people who think slipknot is metal and i hate people who listen to nothing but true black metal and consider that to be the only thing worthy of listening to. If you hate life that much and thinks humanity sucks so much then why dont you go kill yourself stop whinning and bitching and stop acting like you are superior than us because you listen to TRUE BLACK METAL. I dont have a problem with black metal its just the fans.

 

[Humanure]

My pet peeve? Two words: Pit Ninjas.

Although I do thoroughly enjoy sending them on their asses during shows

 

[nafnikufesin]

When I get a dog, I'm going to name him "Peeve".

So he will be my pet Peeve.

**waits for the collective groans**

 

[nafnikufesin]

Pet peeve: "New" flavors of Doritos that taste EXACTLY like old flavors of Doritos

 

[Ormir]

Weapon X's sig. The site is an insult to my intellect.

 

[mourningstar]

ok, there's plenty of things i hate.
one of the things i can't stand, is when you go to the marketplace and it's crowded and the people before you (usually old people and mothers with prams) walk so slow i'd be faster crawling, and when you try to pass them on the left they move to the left, you try on the right they move to the right, you look elsewhere they stop so you hurt them and they complain, if you complain people around you look at you as you were committing a crime, and when you finally succeed in passing them you discover there is someone even slower before you, so you just want to get out but it seems something impossible you think "oh god i'm gonna die here, but if i die i'll take someone with me" so you take an umbrella from someone and try to kill the old lady on your right but in that moment your mother (who is the reason why you are in that hell) says it's not normal to act like that and you think there's no way next time i'm gonna come here.
sorry for this, i identified myself too much

Originally posted by Lady of the Oracle
I can expand on that idea by saying it drives me insane when people abbreviate crap like "r" or "u" or the like.."how old r u?"..wtf is that?

what's the difference between "u" and "wtf"? i don't think it's the number of letters you save that makes an abbreviation acceptable, but the contest you use it in.