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Pet Peeves v. u mad?

shimazu said:
when someone parks really close on either side of a parking spot and youre sitting there for a minute trying to judge the dimensions of youre car and you start to pull in and realize its a lost cause so you gotta back out and by that point someone is probably walking behind you so you gotta wait for them to move and its always a grandma or crippled person of course so you waste 5 mins of your life trying to do something that should take 3 seconds if people werent ignorant fucks.
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Park further away and walk...
cerebral_pauly said:
calm down youre acting like a chic

I dislike toll booths that combine EZ-Pass with ticketers. Like whats the point then?
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Because people are not paying attention and go into tue booth anyway.
 
This is more than a peeve, but I'm not ready to start a thread over it... Americans would rather have money than principals. It's a generalization, and doesn't apply to everyone, all the time, but often we seem to have a pricetag on our ideals. It's revolting.
 
I really cant stand when someone goes "what time is it?" and they are standing within five feet of a fucking clock
 
shimazu said:
I really cant stand when someone goes "what time is it?" and they are standing within five feet of a fucking clock
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I did that once standing under Big Ben. In my defence I was wasted.

Chic and chick are not interchangable, as mentioned they are two separate words with two separate meanings. Yes language evolves, and so it should, but not by complete misuse.
 
can i do a pet peeve about myself?.... well i am going to...
i really hate that when i get anxious i also get all hot and sweaty which just worsens the situation all around.... its irritating
 
People who leave notes on your car.

Yesterday I came home super sick from work (almost puked in the car it was awful)...anyway I find a spot close to my place, but it was a struggle to parallel park there bc of the other fucks who parked around me.

I wake up this morning for work, go to my car and find a note with a diagram and everything of how I'm a terrible person for parking how I did, arrows showing why and how I suck at life for parking where I did, and threatened that next time it happens my car will get keyed. Of course the other two cars were gone, so I can see how someone would be upset. But c'mon people, leaving a threatening note over a parking spot? It pisses me off that I was blamed for how other people parked.

People are awesome, aren't they?. I SUPER want to post something in that area in response, but venting here is better :)
 
okay.
1 graffito, 1+n graffiti?
1 paparazzo, 1+n paparazzi?

I think that with semi-recently borrowed words, it's a bit ambiguous as to whether they should follow the pluralization-rules of the language from which they were borrowed or one of English's. There are several English words where the singular and plural forms are identical (eg, series).

ebola
 
ebola? said:
okay.
1 graffito, 1+n graffiti?
1 paparazzo, 1+n paparazzi?
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yes, on the paparazzo front, if its a single photographer, as in this context http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/02/justin-bieber-photographer-killed-la

The graffiti one is slightly different as although the piece may be singular, its composed of multiple parts so the i ending applies.

1 bambino, 2 bambini

1 cappuchino, 2 cappuchini http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=1936343

etc etc.

I don't think its ambiguity, just erronious to the point its become widely accepted by those with no knowledge of Italian.

That said, much as its a peeve that we get it wrong I wouldn't go into a cafe in an english speaking country and ask for 'one panino and two cappuchini please' as I'd feel like a tit :)

badandwicked
 
just erronious to the point its become widely accepted by those with no knowledge of Italian.
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But that's what language is, that's how it works. Otherwise, most of us would just be speaking some Indo-European progenitor to the variety languages as we now know them.

ebola
 
People who use their phone on the toilet. Now I'll let it slid that only about half of you even wash you hands after going to the bathroom, (and we all know who you are you grubby cunts :|) but I have never seen any person wipe down or wash their smart phone afterwards. Double this peeve if you use it for a wank bank. To compound the issue you then want to toss that faecal covered peace of technology on the dining table or kitchen benches.

Get a magazine rack you fucking barbarians.
 
One Thousand Words said:
People who use their phone on the toilet. Now I'll let it slid that only about half of you even wash you hands after going to the bathroom, (and we all know who you are you grubby cunts :|) but I have never seen any person wipe down or wash their smart phone afterwards. Double this peeve if you use it for a wank bank. To compound the issue you then want to toss that faecal covered peace of technology on the dining table or kitchen benches.

Get a magazine rack you fucking barbarians.
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Lol wut? Most people don't continue to use their phones while they are trying to wipe. Also, who in their right.minds would WASH their phone after? Do you carry around screen wipes? Didn't think so.

When my boss says that a truck just got fixed and switches me onto it from another truck that still needs repairs only to find out that this truck has something majorly wrong with it and needs immediate repairs. Don't tell me something is fixed and ready to go if it still needs to be repaired. Sheesh...
 
Girls who change their behaviour when a man appears. I could be talking about something with another girl, but when a man appears she suddenly starts twirling her hair and acting ultra "feminine."
 
^ yeah i can relate, regardless of gender i'm speaking with my attitude and tone do not change
and find it annoying how guys change when girls are around, even though i realize they more than likely can't help it and i'm guilty of sometimes go above and beyond to make a cute cashier giggle

i can't stand dude's who hang out at gas stations and stalk out the cashier, poor girl has no escape except calling for security, which could result in stalker dude going full blown stalker

i've got a minor crush on the cashier at the smoke shop near work, i never really chat or anything we just feed each other good vibes, wish she was in friday, i've never asked anyone out while they were at work, but i was feeling good and wanted to make a move and tell her we should hang out, and if she said yes was gonna give her a note with my name and # , and a message that reads'ask for dr.russia or mr.polar time', it's a test to see if we share sense of humor, most important element when considering prospective SOs

pet peeve is a women who wouldn't find my note some what humorless, or at least recognize it was attempted humor, i swear most woman would be like wtf this guy is crazy(bad crazy), call cops
 
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