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Pet Peeves v. u mad?

His Name Is Frank said:
Also, whenever you see something awesome or a really good part is about to happen in a movie you've seen and the person who's watching hasn't and they either look away right before it happens for some bullshit reason or take 10 seconds to respond to your cries of, "Look!" I was outside earlier talking to a neighbor and saw the weirdest lightning strike I've ever seen. It formed a near perfect circle, as if in a plasma ball. I told the neighbor to look and five seconds later he decides to look up and say, "What?" I described what I saw and told him to keep looking because it would probably happen again. He looks for a total of three seconds and looks at his phone. Sure enough, it happened right as he looked away. Then he started with the condescending, "Yeah, yeah. Sure." bullshit. Some people would miss witnessing seeing the creation of the universe if it meant being able to troll someone else and bug the shit out of them.

This is definitely one of my, "Fuck nearly everyone on the face of the earth!" days.
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If I makes you feel any better (or not), this annoys me too and I have also seen ball lightning once.
 
alasdairm said:
i don't buy it.

i can understand a typo or a brain fart but when somebody writes "for all intensive purposes", it seems to me that they really think that is the turn of phrase - they didn't mean to write "for all intents and purposes".

it's an eggcorn, and one of the more common ones.

alasdair
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I agree with Alasdair here. "All intensive purposes" cannot happen accidentally. Minus 1000 grammar points for anyone who write that phrase.

"I could care less" is minus 5000 points. And if the speaker tries to justify it by saying "I know it should be 'I couldn't care less' but I was being sarcastic," the penalty is multiplied by ten. Minus 50,000.

"Same difference." Minus a million points. This is just utter nonsense. The speaker is trying to say, "Same thing." The words "thing" and "difference" are in no way synonymous or interchangeable. (perhaps "same difference" comes from "no difference." Again, replacing "no" with "same" it nonsense.)

7-3 and 10-6 have the same difference.
 
Fjones said:
"I could care less" is minus 5000 points. And if the speaker tries to justify it by saying "I know it should be 'I couldn't care less' but I was being sarcastic," the penalty is multiplied by ten. Minus 50,000.
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"I could care less" ... I hear this all the time. Silly, makes me laugh though
 
added sugar in the dried fruit snacks available at the grocery store.... Dried fruit is often delicious without any added sugar and can be a great snack on the go but I have to pay an arm and a leg to buy the kind without added sugar off amazon.... and I know I know fresh fruit is great but dried fruit is convenient and the amount of sugar added means I may as well eat a candy bar
 
People who send me weird PMs...strange shit:


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I don't like "guac'" as an abbreviation for guacamole, but I have no good reason why. It's nearly as grating as "vaca'" or "'zza". . .

ebola
 
Abbreviations in general make piss me off way more than they should.

Maters instead of tomatoes.
Taters instead of potatoes.

No, you sound inbred. Stop.
 
Living in Louisiana, I've heard tomatoes and potatos referred to as taters and maters more than I even care to think of.

Let me also add, "If it had been a snake, it would have bit me!" to this monstrous pet peeve list. I don't know if that saying is strictly a southern thing, but I can't see anyone else saying it. For those not in the know, people say it when they're looking for something, someone else sees it, points it out and it's in a spot where said seeker should have obviously seen it. Example:

Redneck - "Hey there, mr store clerk. I was wonderin' if yall got them instant taters. My ol lady, she's a lazy bitch and she can't cook for shit!"

Clerk - "Yes sir. They're right there under that sign that says Instant Potatoes, right in front of you."

Redneck - "Gotdamn if they ain't! Man, if that had been a snake, it woulda bit me!"

Clerk - "I wish it had been, sir. Fuck my life."
 
Buddha said:
Maters? MATERS?!?! WHAT. THE. FUCK.
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What the literal fuck. :P

Frank said:
Southern accents/abbreviations/shortcuts/grammar bug me in general.
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"Y'all" is pretty useful: English doesn't really have another second-person plural. "You guys" is. . .sometimes inappropriate.
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1. "The exception that proves the rule." I have not yet seen this used in a way that's remotely logically permissible.
2. Semantic creep of spam from clutter via commercial messages to general clutter. I prefer the original, more precise meaning.
3. Overuse of citation of the "no true Scotsman" fallacy. We would like our semantic categories to have some degree of boundedness, right? So this entails that for some groups, there will be those that actually adhere to these groups' minimal definitional criteria and some that misleadingly appear to. The NTS fallacy should be reserved for attempts to invalidate group membership by applying criteria that aren't actually essential to membership of said group.

ebola
 
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People who yell at you for smoking a cigarette out side of your work. And then hand you a fucking religious brochure.

Like what the fuck if I want to smoke I will smoke. Get the fuck off my ass, jerks.

That shit pisses me off! It happened about three times so far in the last few years. :sus:
 
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