Pet Peeves

[IPA4Me]

This may be too specific, but to my best ability I avoid any and all movie trailers. I want to know little to nothing about it outside of director, actors, writers, etc. And my pet peeve is when people, just assuming I haven't been living my life like this for as long as I can remember, say crap like "well let me just say one thing about it" like I don't know what I'm talking about when I say I want to know ZERO THINGS about it. And then they try to interrupt my refusal by telling me the one thing they just HAVE to tell me.

My gf does this crap. "Shut the eff up. I don't want to know anything." Drives me crazy when she drops hints about a movie.

[KST8FAN]

Co workers who can't format numbers in a spreadsheet.  Have some efn professionalism.  It's not that hard to slap some commas, fixed decimal places, and a currency symbol on your work product when appropriate.


Tom

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[pissclams]

Co workers who can't format numbers in a spreadsheet.  Have some efn professionalism.  It's not that hard to slap some commas, fixed decimal places, and a currency symbol on your work product when appropriate.


Tom

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it really bugs me when people use the $ button in excel to format numbers to dollars

[BIG APPLE CAT]

When I’m dealing with 6 digits or more I like the commas. 5 digits is a gray area. 4 digits? Maybe you should spend less time worrying about spreadsheet formatting and instead focus on changing your poopy diaper because you’re a giant baby

[star seed 7]

I always properly format my excels and I'm the only one who sees them 

[Kat Kid]

The absolutely terrible roads that connect manhattan to I-80 to get to Omaha to see Jimmy Eat World and Fall Out Boy

[Stupid Fitz]

People that go through grocery stores and/or costco backwards.

[steve dave]

The absolutely terrible roads that connect manhattan to I-80 to get to Omaha to see Jimmy Eat World and Fall Out Boy

You get to experience beautiful Beatrice


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[BIG APPLE CAT]

Not so much a peeve but peeve adjacent... Knowing that jealousy and envy are not interchangable but hearing ppl use them incorrectly. Cannot un-know.

For those uninitiated, jealousy is when you're worried your neighbor is gonna take your cow, and envy is when you covet your neighbors cow

[michigancat]

I had no idea. Seems fake

[star seed 7]

One of my pet peeves is people who are anal about grammar and language.

[BIG APPLE CAT]

Respect the game you street urchin

[yoga-like_abana]

One of my pet peeves is people who are anal about grammar and language.

But are you jealous or envious of them?


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[Spracne]

One of my pet peeves is people who are anal about grammar and language.

What if I told you it was a complaint about usage?

[star seed 7]

Precision is needed in professional environments like law or research and totally understandable. Everyday common speech though? Get over yourself imho. 

[star seed 7]

My serial abuse of the written English language probably makes me slightly biased though.

[catastrophe]

Precision is needed in professional environments like law or research and totally understandable. Everyday common speech though? Get over yourself imho. 

I have a similar peeve for people who correct something grammar/usage wise despite knowing exactly what you meant, which is really the whole point of language if you think about it.

The best example of this are people who insist that you cannot end a sentence with a preposition (which often makes sentences more convoluted) while simultaneously refusing to use the Oxford comma.

[BIG APPLE CAT]

Precision is needed in professional environments like law or research and totally understandable. Everyday common speech though? Get over yourself imho. 

I have a similar peeve for people who correct something grammar/usage wise despite knowing exactly what you meant, which is really the whole point of language if you think about it.

The best example of this are people who insist that you cannot end a sentence with a preposition (which often makes sentences more convoluted) while simultaneously refusing to use the Oxford comma.

fun news, the Grammar Police have recently issued a ruling that it's actually fine to end a sentence in a preposition. I guess the whole "no ending a sentence in a prepo" comes from latin-based languages, which english is not, so like, its actually fine. Wish they would have issued that ruling when i was in high school and having to write lots of papers.

[mocat]

defund the grammar police

[star seed 7]

To be honest, I do not know what a preposition is and do not care to learn.

[BIG APPLE CAT]

Precision is needed in professional environments like law or research and totally understandable. Everyday common speech though? Get over yourself imho. 

I have a similar peeve for people who correct something grammar/usage wise despite knowing exactly what you meant, which is really the whole point of language if you think about it.

The best example of this are people who insist that you cannot end a sentence with a preposition (which often makes sentences more convoluted) while simultaneously refusing to use the Oxford comma.

a couple of additional thoughts on this:
I keep my grammar elitism to myself, mostly. Like if you say "I am not one to XYZ", I can assure you that I am not wont to give you the ol' WELL ACTUALLY!
I think around the time it was codified that "literally" can mean either "literally" or "figuratively" i was like "ya know what? this whole language thing...its completely made up. we just made it up. i'm not going to get mad"

[catastrophe]

Precision is needed in professional environments like law or research and totally understandable. Everyday common speech though? Get over yourself imho. 

I have a similar peeve for people who correct something grammar/usage wise despite knowing exactly what you meant, which is really the whole point of language if you think about it.

The best example of this are people who insist that you cannot end a sentence with a preposition (which often makes sentences more convoluted) while simultaneously refusing to use the Oxford comma.

fun news, the Grammar Police have recently issued a ruling that it's actually fine to end a sentence in a preposition. I guess the whole "no ending a sentence in a prepo" comes from latin-based languages, which english is not, so like, its actually fine. Wish they would have issued that ruling when i was in high school and having to write lots of papers.

Which means it was never a rule. That also doesn’t stop a lot of people going around trying to impose the made up crap they learned in 7th grade English class like they’re that Japanese soldier who kept fighting WWII for 30 years after it was over.

[Sandstone Outcropping]

Precision is needed in professional environments like law or research and totally understandable. Everyday common speech though? Get over yourself imho. 

I have a similar peeve for people who correct something grammar/usage wise despite knowing exactly what you meant, which is really the whole point of language if you think about it.

The best example of this are people who insist that you cannot end a sentence with a preposition (which often makes sentences more convoluted) while simultaneously refusing to use the Oxford comma.

fun news, the Grammar Police have recently issued a ruling that it's actually fine to end a sentence in a preposition. I guess the whole "no ending a sentence in a prepo" comes from latin-based languages, which english is not, so like, its actually fine. Wish they would have issued that ruling when i was in high school and having to write lots of papers.

Which means it was never a rule. That also doesn’t stop a lot of people going around trying to impose the made up crap they learned in 7th grade English class like they’re that Japanese soldier who kept fighting WWII for 30 years after it was over.

That's a hilarious metaphor.

[BIG APPLE CAT]

Precision is needed in professional environments like law or research and totally understandable. Everyday common speech though? Get over yourself imho. 

I have a similar peeve for people who correct something grammar/usage wise despite knowing exactly what you meant, which is really the whole point of language if you think about it.

The best example of this are people who insist that you cannot end a sentence with a preposition (which often makes sentences more convoluted) while simultaneously refusing to use the Oxford comma.

fun news, the Grammar Police have recently issued a ruling that it's actually fine to end a sentence in a preposition. I guess the whole "no ending a sentence in a prepo" comes from latin-based languages, which english is not, so like, its actually fine. Wish they would have issued that ruling when i was in high school and having to write lots of papers.

Which means it was never a rule. That also doesn’t stop a lot of people going around trying to impose the made up crap they learned in 7th grade English class like they’re that Japanese soldier who kept fighting WWII for 30 years after it was over.

take it to the dan carlin hardcore history thread

[mocat]

Precision is needed in professional environments like law or research and totally understandable. Everyday common speech though? Get over yourself imho. 

I have a similar peeve for people who correct something grammar/usage wise despite knowing exactly what you meant, which is really the whole point of language if you think about it.

The best example of this are people who insist that you cannot end a sentence with a preposition (which often makes sentences more convoluted) while simultaneously refusing to use the Oxford comma.

fun news, the Grammar Police have recently issued a ruling that it's actually fine to end a sentence in a preposition. I guess the whole "no ending a sentence in a prepo" comes from latin-based languages, which english is not, so like, its actually fine. Wish they would have issued that ruling when i was in high school and having to write lots of papers.

Which means it was never a rule. That also doesn’t stop a lot of people going around trying to impose the made up crap they learned in 7th grade English class like they’re that Japanese soldier who kept fighting WWII for 30 years after it was over.