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Pet Peeves v. 5.0

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Fjones said:
Can't we have some uniform manner of displaying dates? Few things are more irritating than "5-7-10" Does this mean May 7th? July 5th? What the fuck!!!!!! Why the ambiguity!? I shouldn't have to look around until I find a date with a number greater than 12 to determine which format is being used.

I think 7/5/10 refers to July 5th, whereas 7-5-10 refers to the 7th of May, but why have this annoying distinction? Who talks like that anyway?

"Excuse me, what is today's date?"

"It's the 7th of May."

No! No one talks like that. It's MAY 7th!!!!!!!!!!!

Also, what is the deal with this silly system of measurements we use in the U.S.? Who came up with this nonsense? 12 inches in a foot? 3 feet in a yard? 5280 feet in a mile? 16 points in a gallon? WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE DECIMAL SYSTEM! Everything works in units of TEN!
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How about the rest of the fucking world FJones!! :|

If you look at time it is printed in a logical order. Hours, then minutes, then seconds. Why would you jump from a larger unit (months) to a smaller unit (days) then up to a larger unit (year)?

The sooner American minds embraced the metric system the sooner science will advance.;) 1Litre of Water = 1 Kg Water. It doesn't get simpler than that.
 
regarding inches and feet

I like metric as much as the next guy, but i think its easier to build with imperial measurements. 12/1, 2,3,4,6,12 will all give even numbers.

10 has 1,2,5 and 10

i think
 
Busty St Clare said:
The sooner American minds embraced the metric system the sooner science will advance.;) 1Litre of Water = 1 Kg Water. It doesn't get simpler than that.
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agreed. it would have made college level science classes just a little bit easier for me.

when i was in elementary school we learned the metric system, due to the fact the US was supposed to change over very soon, but it never happened. booooo. thanks reagan.
 
People who insist on hiding behind the guise of texting because they can't man up and at least make a phone call.

To me, texting isn't for conversations, especially serious ones.
 
Fjones said:
When I go to the supermarket, why the fuck does the register spit out printed coupons for things I never buy and don't need? What is the point of the stupid club cards they make you use??????? :X:X:X
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My checkout machine yesterday gave me a coupon for a free box of tampons. The coupons are usually quite handy.

My rant: idiots at the grocery store who don't know how to use the self-checkout. GTFO and stand in a regular line.
 
Rogue Robot said:
People who insist on hiding behind the guise of texting because they can't man up and at least make a phone call.

To me, texting isn't for conversations, especially serious ones.
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Hey, you're talking about me there :( I hate phone calls.
 
Peeves o' the day:
1) Men, omfg
2) People that try to use science to defend their position on something when they clearly don't know dick about it and then try to tell me I'm wrong when they inevitably contradict themselves
3) The job market
 
captainbackfire said:
musicians who think it's cool to smash a perfectly good guitar...just their little way of helping in case you forget how rich they are.

donate to charity, auction it off, give it to some little kid who'd love to play it but can't afford it...that "ill buy a new one!" indulgence is just kinda sickening to me.
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silentangst said:
It kills me inside when I see that, knowing I could have had it and it would have been about a billion times better than what I have now.

The best show I've been to was when the band actually threw their two guitars and bass out into the crowd. That really made my day, it seemed so selfless even though, again, it probably meant nothing to them.
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People who think musicians are all rich are pretty annoying.
 
cashiers that refuse you alcohol without your driver's license when you know they recognize they've carded you and sold you liquor a thousand times before. :X
 
rant*N*rave said:
^If you subscribe to that notion, you should prefer 7-5-10 for May 5th as it's the format most of the world uses outside the US.

Pet peeve: inconsistency.

;)
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No, No. I am a big fan of consistency. We can write it as 2010-7-5 with a smiley face in between each number for all I care, just as long as we all do it that way. Why does the U.S. insist on different ways of doing simple things??
 
Busty St Clare said:
How about the rest of the fucking world FJones!! :|

If you look at time it is printed in a logical order. Hours, then minutes, then seconds. Why would you jump from a larger unit (months) to a smaller unit (days) then up to a larger unit (year)?

The sooner American minds embraced the metric system the sooner science will advance.;) 1Litre of Water = 1 Kg Water. It doesn't get simpler than that.
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Agreed. Unfortunately, this will probably never happen.

And actually, what you said provides a useful way to remember it: Day, month, year. But does everyone apply this? In other words, what if there are people out there who write the date 5-7-10 when in fact they mean May 7th? I hope no one does that.
 
Mariposa said:
My checkout machine yesterday gave me a coupon for a free box of tampons. The coupons are usually quite handy.

My rant: idiots at the grocery store who don't know how to use the self-checkout. GTFO and stand in a regular line.
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These people are at the top of my list to be shipped off to Siberia. I have been very close on a few occasions to jumping in and helping them. For some reason, whenever I pick the self-checkout with one person instead of 2, that one person falls into this category. And then he starts up a conversation with someone while his groceries are at the end of the conveyor belt. Look motherfucker, bag up your shit and get out of the way! I'm trying to get out of here without worrying that my groceries will end up in someone else's car!

Side note - Firefox spell check always flags "else's" as being misspelled. How else am I supposed to spell it? Am I suppose to just recast the sentence? Is it weird that I am asking this question despite being an English Tutor?
 
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