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Pet Peeves v. 5.0

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FuturePig said:
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speaking of Abercrombie (and Hollister for that matter)... why is it every time i walk past these stores my olfactory and auditory senses are accosted by their shitty smelling perfume/cologne and deafening music?
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lol I haven't been to either store in so long that I forgot about that! I hate that the music they blast is annoying "alternative" pop that only pretentious high schoolers listen to. Maybe they turn it up so loud because it is their way of subliminally telling you "DON'T THINK JUST BUY!!"

Speaking of this, another pet peeve is how most stores/restaurants have almost the exact same soundtrack playing of soft rock and pop songs that were popular the 90's or early 2000. Some examples are "Everyday is a Winding Road", "Torn", anything by Michelle Branch, Vanessa Carlton or *gag* Nickleback...
 
I hate it when you got a job, but %95 of your friends don't, and they act like since you got money and they don't you should just give them shit for no reason. Fuckin I have to be miserable for 40 hours a week to get this money, while they all sleep in till 1PM and don't do shit. I'm sick of bums calling me a greedy jew for not giving them a cigarette, when I've already givin them more cigs that day than I've smoked myself.

I hate it when people come speeding behind you way over the speed limit, making you think they're about to rear end you or some shit, and then ride your ass, like 2 inches from your bumper. Sometimes I just wanna slam my brakes and fuck up their car, mines already a piece of shit anyways. I usually just perpossly drive 10mph under the speed limit to piss them off when they ride my ass, or swerve back and forth like a drunk to scare them so they'll give me some space.
 
Laquan27 said:
I'm sick of bums calling me a greedy jew for not giving them a cigarette, when I've already givin them more cigs that day than I've smoked myself.
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Cigarette bummers are my pet peeve too! Not people who occasionally bum a cig off of you, I don't mind them, but the ones who never seem to have a pack of their own smokes and will try to bum 5 cigs off you in a row. During my freshman year of college, there was a spot outside the dorms where all the smokers would sit and have their cigs, and this one kid became known as "the bum" because he would always be bumming cigarettes. He would give lame excuses for never having his own, like "I'm trying to quit" or "I don't have money!" Well I don't have much money either, and it's not my responsibility to support your smoking habit!
 
Laquan27 said:
I usually just perpossly drive 10mph under the speed limit to piss them off when they ride my ass, or swerve back and forth like a drunk to scare them so they'll give me some space.
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lol - the person in the car behind you is likely a bluelighter who can't wait to get to this thread to explain what a shitty driver you are and how you're their pet peeve :)

alasdair
 
the stupid grammar rule that says it's incorrect to end a sentence with a preposition. what's that all about? dumbest rule anyone ever came up with.
 
thouart_that said:
Animals in people clothes.
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voxmystic said:
the stupid grammar rule that says it's incorrect to end a sentence with a preposition. what's that all about? dumbest rule anyone ever came up with.
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that rule has its roots in latin grammar and it's not really relevant to modern use of english.

it's perfectly acceptable to end a sentence with a preposition, especially where omitting it changes the meaning or re-ordering the words is so convoluted as to be silly (e.g. churchill's famous "that is the sort of thing up with which I will not put").

alasdair
 
voxmystic said:
the stupid grammar rule that says it's incorrect to end a sentence with a preposition. what's that all about? dumbest rule anyone ever came up with.
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that reminds me of a joke my grandfather once told me. :) (though you've probably heard it before...)

two women are sitting on plane, one is your typical Southern belle and the other, a career-minded New Yorker. in her sweet drawl, the Southern woman, asks the New Yorker, "Where're you from?" the New Yorker, replies snootily, "Where I'm from we don't end a sentence with a preposition." unaffected by the New Yorker's rudeness and keeping her grace and smile, the Southern woman replies, "Oh, I'm sorry. Where're you from, bitch?" :D


pet peeve: people who don't hold the elevator for you. :X
 
voxmystic said:
the stupid grammar rule that says it's incorrect to end a sentence with a preposition. what's that all about? dumbest rule anyone ever came up with.
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You'll be happy to know that most modern writing guides no longer insist on this rule. It had been debatable for a long time anyway, but if you checked now, I think you'd find most experts agree with you.
 
FuturePig said:
pet peeve: people who don't hold the elevator for you. :X
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I think a blatant act of not holding the elevator entitles you to try to grab the door at the last minute, squeeze in, and press all the buttons.

Don't quote me on this rule because there is a good chance I am mistaken and that such an act is actually frowned upon.
 
I've done that before, I ran for it, noone held it, I made it, got in, pressed all the buttons, got out and smiled at the jerks in it, and then waited for the next one.
 
The prepositions at the end of a sentence issue reminds me. . .

What do any prescriptive grammarians in this thread think about the split infinitive? I like to boldly split the infinitive. It is my understanding that a rule against splitting infinitives came about from people trying to impose Latin grammar on English. If anyone has a clarity issue or or an aesthetic issue about split infinitives I'd like to hear them.
 
Enki said:
The prepositions at the end of a sentence issue reminds me. . .

What do any prescriptive grammarians in this thread think about the split infinitive? I like to boldly split the infinitive. It is my understanding that a rule against splitting infinitives came about from people trying to impose Latin grammar on English. If anyone has a clarity issue or or an aesthetic issue about split infinitives I'd like to hear them.
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this too. i'd like to politely invite any high school english teacher who has a problem with captain kirk's opening jounal entry to kindly stuff it.

grammatical peeve of the day: the effect of a cause affects a person or thing. they are NOT interchangeable.
 
Enki said:
The prepositions at the end of a sentence issue reminds me. . .

What do any prescriptive grammarians in this thread think about the split infinitive? I like to boldly split the infinitive. It is my understanding that a rule against splitting infinitives came about from people trying to impose Latin grammar on English. If anyone has a clarity issue or or an aesthetic issue about split infinitives I'd like to hear them.
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The rule against splitting infinitives is widely considered outdated. We all tend to occasionally split an infinitive.
 
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