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Pet Peeves v. u mad?

I'm not a tea snob, I just like my tea. My pet peeve are are tea pots with a short spout that when filled too far, make it impossible to pour a cuppa without spilling my brew all over the table. Function over form, the spout needs to be long and curvy.

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^ i agree.

my life is littered with teapot, kettles and jugs that must never have been tested by simply pouring liquid from them before being put into mass production...

alasdair
 
Oh, I have one. When people leave out the last word in a sentence, e.g. "simple as" or "end of". I always ask "end of what?" and I get a strange look as they tell me 'story' even though I already knew. I just wanted them to finish the fucking sentence. :)
 
My mom was dating this guy for a while who would constantly misuse words. Like, he'd be talking, and to try to sound smart, he'd use big or rarer words. Except like 90% of the time, the word would be completely wrong for the context, or not even have the meaning he thought. Bugged the shit out of me, because English and Grammar and Linguistics are like, my forte, my passion. Except what got to me even more, I think, Is that whenever I tried to explain to him how he misused the word, he'd come up with all kinds of excuses and explanations and "Well actually boy this word can be used how I see fit due to its gerund properties" or some other completely ignorant nonsense like that. I just gave up, because I couldn't handle all the bastardization..


Shit, and this one!
So if you live in America, you know about the DMV. Department of Motor Vehicles man.
Told my ass I needed two letters to prove my address after the new law. Kay, damn, whatever though. Go pick up another letter at the post and mail it to myself, because all my bills are paperless, and who still sends letters?
Anyway, wait a few days to get the letter, a few more because the DMV is only open Monday through Thursday, then realize I have day shifts all week. So there goes another week..
So finally I get to the DMV again. "I've got both my letters this time!" (:
Except now bitch is like, "I'm sorry, the date on the first letter is too old. We can't accept that as proof of address."
What the fuck?? So I point to the first teller and explain how she told me I had to come back, and everything I've said here basically, and she's just like, "There's nothing I can do."
All the while, I can't cash TWO checks and end up late on my phone which cost me even more money. Because I need my ID to cash my checks. And I can't get my fucking ID because of these fucking DMV whores.
So I walk out. Then realize I left my other papers with the clerk.
Turns out the dumb bitch just left them on the counter, and in the five minutes I was gone, somebody had stolen my social securty card. My other papers were fine, but the SS card was missing, and even after speaking to who was supposedly in charge, they refused to admit any responsibility or do anything to help.

So I call social securty offices. Know what they told me?
"Better buy a credit monitering service."

So now, not only was the whole incident with the DMV just utter bullshit, but my credit is now in peril and it's solely my responsibility to pay like thirty dollars a month for credit monitering, just to make sure some asshole doesn't steal my identity.

So I agree with one of the prior posters when they say, "Fuck government employees!"
 
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!!4iV4HF9R34g said:
...because English and Grammar and Linguistics are like, my forte..., my passion.
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you're shitting me right?

this has got to be a joke. the word 'like' appears, like, in your post, like, seven times and is used correctly, like, once. for somebody who is passionate about grammar, you could do to brush up a little yourself...

oh, on topic. pet peeve: like

alasdair
 
So you've got a problem with my voice, not my grammar. We're on a forum, I'm not writing an essay.
 
!!4iV4HF9R34g said:
My mom was dating this guy for a while who would constantly misuse words. Like, he'd be talking, and to try to sound smart, he'd use big or rarer words. Except like 90% of the time, the word would be completely wrong for the context, or not even have the meaning he thought. Bugged the shit out of me, because English and Grammar and Linguistics are like, my forte, my passion. Except what got to me even more, I think, Is that whenever I tried to explain to him how he misused the word, he'd come up with all kinds of excuses and explanations and "Well actually boy this word can be used how I see fit due to its gerund properties" or some other completely ignorant nonsense like that. I just gave up, because I couldn't handle all the bastardization..


Shit, and this one!
So if you live in America, you know about the DMV. Department of Motor Vehicles man.
Told my ass I needed two letters to prove my address after the new law. Kay, damn, whatever though. Go pick up another letter at the post and mail it to myself, because all my bills are paperless, and who still sends letters?
Anyway, wait a few days to get the letter, a few more because the DMV is only open Monday through Thursday, then realize I have day shifts all week. So there goes another week..
So finally I get to the DMV again. "I've got both my letters this time!" (:
Except now bitch is like, "I'm sorry, the date on the first letter is too old. We can't accept that as proof of address."
What the fuck?? So I point to the first teller and explain how she told me I had to come back, and everything I've said here basically, and she's just like, "There's nothing I can do."
All the while, I can't cash TWO checks and end up late on my phone which cost me even more money. Because I need my ID to cash my checks. And I can't get my fucking ID because of these fucking DMV whores.
So I walk out. Then realize I left my other papers with the clerk.
Turns out the dumb bitch just left them on the counter, and in the five minutes I was gone, somebody had stolen my social securty card. My other papers were fine, but the SS card was missing, and even after speaking to who was supposedly in charge, they refused to admit any responsibility or do anything to help.

So I call social securty offices. Know what they told me?
"Better buy a credit monitering service."

So now, not only was the whole incident with the DMV just utter bullshit, but my credit is now in peril and it's solely my responsibility to pay like thirty dollars a month for credit monitering, just to make sure some asshole doesn't steal my identity.

So I agree with one of the prior posters when they say, "Fuck government employees!"
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Who still cashes paychecks? I've had direct deposit since 2004. ;)
 
!!4iV4HF9R34g said:
So you've got a problem with my voice, not my grammar. We're on a forum, I'm not writing an essay.
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no, i have a problem with your grammar (and your spelling for that matter). i just didn't want to point out all the examples in your post in case it made me look like a dick. :)

alasdair
 
I often fear I make constant typos on the internet, and no one ever points them out to me.

The not making me aware of it part, being the pet peeve.
 
The only spelling errors I can spot are with the word monitor, my bad for not proofreading my smartphone. And I still don't see anything grammatically incorrect. I mean, if you're referring to my commas around the word like, then that is an issue with voice. They're breaks in the flow, not grammatical misplacements.

Whatevs though. It is a pet peeves thread I suppose.

Another of mine is nitpicking.
And definitely not being informed when I make a mistake.
It baffles me how people get angry when corrected.. Like, I'd rather be told and be able to not make the same mistake again than not be told and make a fool of myself in another situation.
 
!!4iV4HF9R34g said:
The only spelling errors I can spot are with the word monitor, my bad for not proofreading my smartphone. And I still don't see anything grammatically incorrect. I mean, if you're referring to my commas around the word like, then that is an issue with voice. They're breaks in the flow, not grammatical misplacements.

Whatevs though. It is a pet peeves thread I suppose.

Another of mine is nitpicking.
And definitely not being informed when I make a mistake.
It baffles me how people get angry when corrected.. Like, I'd rather be told and be able to not make the same mistake again than not be told and make a fool of myself in another situation.
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"My bad" bothers me like "cuppa" up there bothers sum of ewe peoples. ;)
 
!!4iV4HF9R34g said:
The only spelling errors I can spot are with the word monitor, my bad for not proofreading my smartphone.
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Kay
securty

you might think it's nitpicking but when you post on the internet, bragging about how great you are at English, grammar and linguistics (note case) but your post suggests quite the opposite, you're going to get a little heat.

"Told my ass I needed two letters to prove my address after the new law. Kay, damn, whatever though" ain't Shakespeare. just saying.

alasdair
 
!!4iV4HF9R34g said:
Good luck when the banks die!! ;b Lololol.
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when the banks die, you might find yourself having trouble cashing a paper check.

:)

i recently got my driver's license and when i went to take the permit test i discovered that my state issued ID was not considered a valid form of ID for this purpose...despite the fact that it's issued by the same DMV.
 
Lol, the banks dying was just jokes.. I'm actually just really lazy and haven't set up a bank account lol. Except, paperless bills are just emails sent to me, which I then go in and pay. Soo.. Yeah.

But like I said alasdairm, that's still my voice. Who the hell writes like Shakespeare? Have you read anything written in the last decade dude??
You really are just nitpicking, because my comment about my writing had LITERALLY no bearing on the actual content of the post.
Moreover, there is still nothing wrong with it! You might only deem classical prose as the only well written word, but I wholeheartedly disagree, and find it not necessarily inaccessible, but at least boring and dry as hell.
Not to mention that you're basing your critique of my writing on a single post. Great sampling man, I'm sure you'd make an excellent scientist lol.

Honestly, I'm getting tired of this back and forth anyway. My English professors disagree with you, so do I, and you're just somebody random on the web who has some bone to pick, for reasons unknown to me.
Frankly, I sorta think you just troll these forums. I've never seen you post a response to anyone that wasn't antagonizing or berating.

In summation, blah blah blah I'm a professional writer lolol jk except not, suck it. Lol. :b
 
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