I really hate it how in TV and movies, whenever someone is talking on a cell phone and gets hung up on, they get a dial tone. I get that you want the audience to know that they hung up, but show me one fucking cell phone that gets a dial tone. They really need to start working the standard cell phone disconnect single beep so we can progress together as a species
I hate that in almost every show and movie, no one says hello or goodbye when they're on the phone.
Common courtesy, ya bozos!
When you call some one and their voice mail has no message or name just numbers.
people leaving me voicemail instead of just texting.
people
stupid or old dads who call and say "hey it's so and so".. yes, we know it's you. it's not like the first phone ever invented
Quote from: jer on July 31, 2014, 09:28:03 PM
people leaving me voicemail instead of just texting.
I'm ok with it if its a long message that wouldn't translate to text as well, but the voicemails that are just "Oh hey, I called. Call me back." are the most annoying. There is no need for me to go to call a number, wait for prompts, type in another number, wait for prompts, press a number to listen to my message just for a message giving me information I already gained forty seconds ago when I saw that I missed your call.
USE A BLINKER DAMN IT ITS NOT THAT HARD!
STOP TAILING ME LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT (only to turn into a neighborhood after passing me)
FIRE WALK WITH ME GODDAMN IT!
Ring tones. I don't understand why people need them. If vibrate isn't enough, then you are too far away from your phone for a ring tone, anyway.
Dog owners who don't keep their dog in check.
Auto drivers who feel entitled to be a jerk at everyone, whether it be pedestrians, cyclists, or other autos.
When people use the word literally in a way that makes no sense. Example: That joke was so funny I literally just died.
When people say something is ironic when its really just coincidental.
Quote from: michaelcopeland on August 01, 2014, 01:58:40 PM
When people use the word literally in a way that makes no sense. Example: That joke was so funny I literally just died.
When people say something is ironic when its really just coincidental.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ly1UTgiBXM
Quote from: michaelcopeland on August 01, 2014, 01:58:40 PM
When people say something is ironic when its really just coincidental.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9MWE7DdtIw
Quote from: Joe on August 01, 2014, 11:49:39 AM
Ring tones. I don't understand why people need them. If vibrate isn't enough, then you are too far away from your phone for a ring tone, anyway.
This isn't true.
No one can convince me to change or turn off my 69 Boyz "Tootsee Roll" ringtone.
My biggest beef with ringtones is at work, when someone ventures far away while their phone is still on their desk. It might be funny the first 17 times you hear their Tootsee Roll ringtone loop over-and-over at full volume.
Also, I think I hate the word "beef".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9FBHcLuKqg
beef is a gross word
i hate when people getting on the train crowd around the door and block the people who are coming off. WE HAVE TO GET OFF SO THERE IS ROOM FOR YOU, YOU STUPID ASSHOLES
when people(men) can't read the LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE social cues
people who are hideously entitled
yeah i guess brett pretty much nailed it with "people". i also have a metric fuck ton of retail-worker specific pet peeves. being forced to cheerfully serve the general public is a real fucking bummer most days.
oh also apparently the "walk on the right side of the sidewalk/aisle" rule didn't make it to the west coast or portland or something, sometimes walking down the street is like a goddamned obstacle course
also when people walk three deep as slow as humanly possibly through enclosed corridors which completely blocks you from being able to get around them so you're just stuck behind these assholes until you get mad enough to plow through them.
people who act like their cultural snobbery is anything other than thinly veiled classism
white people in general
i've been thinking about this all morning guys
Quote from: lindsey on August 08, 2014, 09:24:14 AM
oh also apparently the "walk on the right side of the sidewalk/aisle" rule didn't make it to the west coast or portland or something
Yeah, is this really a thing? As a west coaster, I've literally never heard that this was some unwritten rule. Seems kind of stupid... I'm not going to stay to one side and get stuck behind all the other assholes going slow on that side.
Quote from: lindsey on August 08, 2014, 09:24:14 AM
also when people walk three deep as slow as humanly possibly through enclosed corridors which completely blocks you from being able to get around them so you're just stuck behind these assholes until you get mad enough to plow through them.
wait how come in corridors you can walk on the left side, but not in aisles and on sidewalks? everything about the east coast is so dumb.
Its just general rules of traffic (aside from other countries where the rules are reversed). Bikes, walking, driving. Keep to the right, pass on the left. Which brings me to my next pet peeve: drivers who use the shoulder as a passing/turning lane. Annoys the ever loving hell out of me.
unless you're walking in an area with a shitload of pedestrian traffic (such as a major city), that's stupid.
it just makes things more accessible? seems legit to me, walking around here is like pure mayhem sometimes
i don't need no rules to walk the Earth.
Quote from: lindsey on August 08, 2014, 09:19:34 AM
yeah i guess brett pretty much nailed it with "people". i also have a metric fuck ton of retail-worker specific pet peeves. being forced to cheerfully serve the general public is a real fucking bummer most days.
this this holy shit this
when i try to bum a cigarette off someone and they are conveniently smoking their last one. yes, i know cigarettes are expensive and my pet peeve isn't that they aren't giving me one it's that they can't be honest. Just say no!!!
One of my former co-workers got socked pretty hard in the face outside of my work for saying no to someone asking for a cigarette.
Quote from: pronetoaccidents on August 10, 2014, 10:51:28 AM
when i try to bum a cigarette off someone and they are conveniently smoking their last one. yes, i know cigarettes are expensive and my pet peeve isn't that they aren't giving me one it's that they can't be honest. Just say no!!!
I'd assume when people say no, they usually get pestered about it.
Seems like an easy way to piss people off, because people are assholes.
I guess I could have read rory's response before that post instead of reading it after I posted, but here we are.
Way to be an asshole
yeah women are prety used to having to "soften the blow" in order to stay safe like every day all the time so
I was going to post the photo of my co-worker that got punched for lack of cigarette giving, but it was pretty brutal and I don't know if there are spoiler tags/how to use them.
my pet peeve is always and forever the sound of people playing music on their cellphones/laptops while I'm working at the coffee shop. IT drives me absolute up the wall.
Sometimes when I'm at Walgreens at like 1am after work before going home, I'll have my headphones around my neck and the music pretty loud to the point where it's pretty audible when I'm standing in line, but 99% of the time I'm in Walgreens, I'm completely miserable after a stressful night at work and sometimes I wanna hear the sweet, sweet sounds of ScHoolboy Q, y'know.
I loathe people who straight up play music from their phone without headphones though, especially on the metro, and especially on the metro at 1am while I have to pick up some stupid fucking necessary shit from Walgreens at 1am after work.
when people really try to force dumb slang.
Like someone using "Brekkie" instead of typing "breakfast", It doesn't make the concept of breakfast cuter, it makes it sound like I'm about to have breakfast with someone who likes to talk like a baby.
Also the word AmazeBalls, when Amazing is phonetically easier to say anyway.
I hate it when people who do not regularly smoke try to bum cigarettes off of me. This used to happen a lot when I would go to bars and people would be drinking but also happens, at times, when someone is talking to me outside and wants to bond over a cigarette. They're really fucking expensive so if you're a "drunk smoker" go buy some before hitting the bars or liquor store. If you want to talk to me outside while I'm smoking, it is not essential for you to smoke, either.
Now if you are a regular smoker and just happen to be out, that's completely different and will tolerate it as long as it doesn't happen every day.
I hate the word "sammich" in all contexts.
like lots of things, REALLY...
Quote from: BlakeK on September 16, 2014, 11:49:21 AM
I hate it when people who do not regularly smoke try to bum cigarettes off of me. This used to happen a lot when I would go to bars and people would be drinking but also happens, at times, when someone is talking to me outside and wants to bond over a cigarette. They're really fucking expensive so if you're a "drunk smoker" go buy some before hitting the bars or liquor store. If you want to talk to me outside while I'm smoking, it is not essential for you to smoke, either.
Now if you are a regular smoker and just happen to be out, that's completely different and will tolerate it as long as it doesn't happen every day.
man i'm really bad at bumming smokes from my boss at work. but i buy him a pack every payday to make up for it. basically after paying bills i have 3-5 time span in which i have money and blow it all on negative things that are probably left not going into. so i buy myself and boss a pack at payday. i only smoke at work for some reason, so that pack last 5-7 days. then i bum for the next week. does that make a horrible person?
other than my all out hatred for people who don't use a blinker, drive super slow in 55mph roads and people who go super fast when there's no need for that either, i can't stand people who go around rhyming and rapping everything all the time with no concept of the art that it is.
star trek
sorry, not sorry...
also dumb memes too
i remember the first time i saw 9gag
i was like...
I hate this so much, this is fucking evil...
insane sexist dumpster of humanity
When people clip their nails on public transportation, the CLICK always echos throughout the train. I will kill the next person who does this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-jvjmTSYhw&\
When my roommates (who are also a couple) argue about dumb shit at 3 AM. Last night they argued, very loudly and angrily, about jam bands and how Jerry Garcia would be ashamed of the state of the jam band scene.
It's fine to have debates about dumb things but don't be so loud in the common areas at 3 AM. Especially when there are 3 other people in the house trying to sleep.
They argue every other night. Sometimes about dumb things, but mostly about relationshippy things. He calls her a moron and an idiot all of the time. I just want to shake them and tell them to not be together anymore because they're so miserable.
I have a couple of very loud housemates who get into really heated inane arguments, but thankfully they keep it to their room almost exclusively. That's so ridiculous.
They used to have more relationship arguments, as well as yell about the evils of feminism and the like, but it appears they've both grown up and are better to themselves and understand the ideals and positions of literally everyone else around them a little better.
Got a pretty weird house dynamic.
When people bite their nails/hang nails in public or worse across the table from someone.
I almost walked away from my date last night when she did that.
Quote from: jer on August 08, 2014, 01:04:14 PM
i don't need no rules to walk the Earth.
No gods, no earth.
I bite my nails in public but only when I'm uncomfortable or nervous (which is almost always).
I really hate it when people say the word "expecially" instead of especially.
That can really be applied to any word that begins with esp. Expresso is the most annoying thing to hear.
this is probs a dumb question but as a noob to the office life, would it be insane and totally unacceptable to PAINT your nails at your desk??
I DONT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT OFFICE DECORUM
Nail polish can be pretty toxic smelling in a small space without windows that open. I guess it kind of depends how your office is / how close you are in proximity to other people / if you are really supposed to be actually doing something at that moment.
what rory said. presumably you are in a cubicle environment and don't have a room all to yourself, and you'd be a jerk for doing it in that situation.
but if you do have your own office, ignore what i said. do whatever you want in there.
yeeah I'm in a pretty spacious cubicle but definitely NOT my own office. I realized that was probably a hella dumb question. OFFICE NOOB
What next, clipping your nails? COME ON!
microwaving fish.
When people ask to try on my glasses. Its not socially acceptable to try out someone's hearing aid and say "woah, you really are deaf!" Why is this any different?
Quote from: michaelcopeland on October 14, 2014, 04:26:34 PM
When people ask to try on my glasses. Its not socially acceptable to try out someone's hearing aid and say "woah, you really are deaf!" Why is this any different?
I am this asshole, and I will stop being this asshole.
i wear glasses, but that hasn't happened to me very often. it hasn't bothered me when it did happen, but maybe it would if it was more common.
It probably doesn't bother most people. I just feel naked without my glasses and I'm not too comfortable taking them off in front of people.
Quote from: jer on October 14, 2014, 04:01:22 PM
microwaving fish.
There was a guy in my office who would cook salmon from raw in our office microwave. Not in the lunchroom microwave, where it would have been slightly less inappropriate, but in our tiny, stuffy office where none of the windows open. He got fired for unrelated reasons a couple weeks ago and, while the circumstances of his firing really sucked, I'm so glad I don't have to deal with his rude fish fumes anymore.
Rude Fish Fumes is my favorite ska band.
I'm finding a recent pet-peeve with words that have no reason to exist except for peoples desire to create artificial buzzwords or weird urls, like Explainer, Complexity, or Givelify.
EDIT: Complexity might be a normal word in most situations, but I just saw an article for someone creating a Complexity Institute, and it seems weird. I hear George W. Bush and his Decider voice when I see these words. "I oughta send Ol' Brownie down to that School for Complexity Studies and giv'em a couple two or three Explainers on how to Givelify their shopping habits... then we'll grab some sweet, sweet brekkie."
Quote from: lindsey on October 14, 2014, 08:24:10 AM
this is probs a dumb question but as a noob to the office life, would it be insane and totally unacceptable to PAINT your nails at your desk??
I don't know if it's a violation of decorum per se, but if it's crowded, I would hold off. As a teacher, I've had to straight-up go off on students for either using nail polish or spraying disgusting cologne in my room. I have asthma and it has triggered an attack more than once when I had forgotten my inhaler, but more importantly, I've had it trigger a seizure in a student in the middle of class. I have to make a huge deal out of it, but can't explicitly come out and say "Because so-and-so might have a seizure around flashing lights or strong smells". Not that any student there would care, because they are monsters.
Quote from: RankResistance on October 24, 2014, 05:17:17 AM
Not that any student there would care, because they are monsters.
"let's see if we can make so-and-so have a seizure again!" *spritz* *spritz* *spritz*
Quote from: jer on October 24, 2014, 09:05:06 AM
Quote from: RankResistance on October 24, 2014, 05:17:17 AM
Not that any student there would care, because they are monsters.
"let's see if we can make so-and-so have a seizure again!" *spritz* *spritz* *spritz*
I had an asthma attack after one of them decided to take a bath in Axe body spray, and judging from the laughter in the room, you'll see me on the Tonight Show shortly.
people talking about their pet peeves
i'm so fucking meta aren't I?
people who mention being meta, while i'm at it
When people ask "Can I ask you a question?"
When people say "I feel badly.." If this truly is the case, you should see a doctor
men who don't get it
People who don't get it in general
People who never wash their reusable bags, apparently use it to carry gym clothes, then stuff it in other bag concentrating the stench until whipping it out at the checkout counter and not noticing when every one in 30 feet drops dead.
when people attribute quotes from characters to the author as if the author said them in a real life context
Quote from: lindsey on November 13, 2014, 08:16:39 AM
when people attribute quotes from characters to the author as if the author said them in a real life context
god that is the worst
I really hate when I'm talking on the phone to someone, and a person that happens to be in the same room as either myself or the person I'm talking to decides to start throwing out their input and including themselves in our conversation. I did not call that person, and what I'm talking about is none of their business unless they're specifically invited into the conversation.
Quote from: ramblinrabble on January 25, 2015, 11:30:07 AM
I really hate when I'm talking on the phone to someone, and a person that happens to be in the same room as either myself or the person I'm talking to decides to start throwing out their input and including themselves in our conversation. I did not call that person, and what I'm talking about is none of their business unless they're specifically invited into the conversation.
My mom fell on hard times and had to move in with me for 3 months(which turned into 6, which turned into a year until last month I was like 'fuck this, I gave the landlord a 60 day notice, I'm moving in with my girlfriend.') But EVERY TIME I'M ON THE PHONE and she is within 50 feet she is like "Who are you talking to? What? What did they have to say? What are you talking about?" while I'm on the motherfucking phone. I tell the person to hold on for a sec and say "Mom, I'm on the phone, I can't talk to two people at once." And then I'm the asshole.
the sound of chewing. so much. soooo much.
i was thinking today about how a major pet hate of mine is people who refer to themselves as 'taken' when describing their relationship status. like seriously. where did they take you? are you okay? did they kidnap you? did you consent to being 'taken'? what happens if they want to return you? it's like you are a product on a shelf. when they have taken you, are you their property? do you belong to them? why would you want to be 'taken' by anyone? damn, have some self respect.
Quote from: myles on January 27, 2015, 06:46:14 PM
the sound of chewing. so much. soooo much.
My dad called Kit Kat to tell them he'll never eat another one of their candy bars because the commercials of people chewing them grossed him out so much. The lady that answered the phone said she "didn't make the commercial but she was sorry to hear that."
oh man you guys i work on phone now as a "virtual receptionist" and i could make a list a mile long about phone etiquette related pet peeves
People who talk on the phone.
Who does that anymore?
I recall there was a pet peeves thread on here at one time. I feel like there ought to be another, since many of us are curmudgeonly grumps.
Heres one of my long-standing pet peeves:
The use of on in the phrases I am going to love on him, or I am going to brag on him. Why?
Anyone else?
What does that even mean?!
Wait, that wasn't a spamboat? wtf
i mean that above post took a quick turn to nonsenseville, so i'm pretty sure we can still say it's a bot.
bots are my pet peeves
So were at the part where we discuss who has real and proper pet peeves and who doesnt?
Dakota, I laughed probably way too hard at that
Quote from: dakotafloyd on March 08, 2015, 08:51:37 PM
So were at the part where we discuss who has real and proper pet peeves and who doesnt?
<3
Quote from: dakotafloyd on March 08, 2015, 08:51:37 PM
So were at the part where we discuss who has real and proper pet peeves and who doesnt?
Quote from: michaelcopeland on March 08, 2015, 09:01:06 PM
Dakota, I laughed probably way too hard at that
To be fair, those phrases are awful. The bot is right.
along those same lines, i hate when people leave "to be" out of descriptions of things that needs to be done, like when they say "this needs folded" instead of "this needs to be folded". what IS that??
Quote from: lindsey on March 10, 2015, 06:33:34 PM
along those same lines, i hate when people leave "to be" out of descriptions of things that needs to be done, like when they say "this needs folded" instead of "this needs to be folded". what IS that??
once ontologist heideggar, pardon in correct spelling i dont know how to spell it correctly and i have a strict Kerouac no edit style on everything i write that isn't an actual piece of art. I digress. If Being is essentially a construct of our consciousness coupled with our perception in other entity's Being and our conscious being causally creates our observer and us the observed and vice versa, by removing the 'to be' verb form from our lexicon, as evidenced in a few but not many foreign languages, individuals tend toward objectivity and a relative correlation with their other human and animal counter parts as the subconsciousness removal of their little case being dissolves and become more toward a unified collective Being. In essence, it breaks your cultural conditioning leading to what many but not all have come to call enlightenment.
i think i took that joke a wee bit far, imagine it in a british accent and itll make much more sense
;)
Quote from: lindsey on March 10, 2015, 06:33:34 PM
along those same lines, i hate when people leave "to be" out of descriptions of things that needs to be done, like when they say "this needs folded" instead of "this needs to be folded". what IS that??
Less words, the better.
Daylight saving time.
It always fucks up my sleep schedule, especially now that my phone and computers automatically adjust.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br0NW9ufUUw
Quote from: lindsey on March 10, 2015, 06:33:34 PM
along those same lines, i hate when people leave "to be" out of descriptions of things that needs to be done, like when they say "this needs folded" instead of "this needs to be folded". what IS that??
That is one of my mom's pet peeves so now it bothers me too!
Really not understanding that pet peeve. "This needs folded" is perfectly fine as is.
"this needs folding" is fine. "this needs folded" is idiotic.
All joking aside, i'm surprised at all the prescriptivist doctrine in relation to Lindsey's pet peeve, its a very, very conservative train of thought in linguistics today. Jer, and i am no way saying your comment directly says this, but it implies the same mindset that people who think African American dialect isn't real and comes from lack of intelligence (less racist prescriptivist would say lack of education). I'm not saying your any of those things, only it surprises me as in this very minute example you are leaning toward the ideology of that camp. i just wouldn't expect it is all I mean
oh jeez. there's a world of difference between the evolution of language and dialiect and this particular pet peeve of lindsey's.
unless you're arguing something like, oh, i don't know... doge-speak should be taken as seriously as "African-American dialect."
Which it shouldn't be, and is kind of insulting.
One Of My Pet Peeves Is When Someone Is Lighting A Gas Range Stove And Leaves It On The Ignite. That Whole Tick Tick Tick Thing Gets Annoying.
Quote from: jer on March 11, 2015, 01:49:25 PM
oh jeez. there's a world of difference between the evolution of language and dialiect and this particular pet peeve of lindsey's.
unless you're arguing something like, oh, i don't know... doge-speak should be taken as seriously as "African-American dialect."
Which it shouldn't be, and is kind of insulting.
well i don't know about california but there's a whole lot fucking people in the south who talk like that and its insulting to say its idiotic. period.
but instead of going about like i was using the juxtaposition to make a point. i obviously don't need to explain that and yes doge - speak, any speak that large groups of people use and understand that is not official is a dialectal form and fucking is the same as African American vernacular
sorry i'm getting angry and it was just pet peeve and none of this matters
Quote from: jer on March 11, 2015, 09:32:19 AM
"this needs folding" is fine. "this needs folded" is idiotic.
Both sentences are fine.
Quote from: AaronTheCabe on March 11, 2015, 02:40:49 PM
Quote from: jer on March 11, 2015, 01:49:25 PM
oh jeez. there's a world of difference between the evolution of language and dialiect and this particular pet peeve of lindsey's.
unless you're arguing something like, oh, i don't know... doge-speak should be taken as seriously as "African-American dialect."
Which it shouldn't be, and is kind of insulting.
well i don't know about california but there's a whole lot fucking people in the south who talk like that and its insulting to say its idiotic. period.
but instead of going about like i was using the juxtaposition to make a point. i obviously don't need to explain that and yes doge - speak, any speak that large groups of people use and understand that is not official is a dialectal form and fucking is the same as African American vernacular
sorry i'm getting angry and it was just pet peeve and none of this matters
Yeah, okay I'm bowing out if we're comparing doge to the way southerners or anyone else speaks. Christ.
on googling doge to find out what group of people you were referring to that are so bad i discovered it a meme, so no i am not comparing a meme to dialect.
you wrote that saying something aforementioned phrase was idiotic. as far as people speaking like that, it is not and why i got pissed and if you still think like taht i stand by what i said
if you were specifically quoting a meme and calling that idiotic, then there has been a massive miscommunication due to my lacking of internet memes and such
edit: when i wrote, doge yes in the previous comment i was honestly ignorant of the term and made the assumption it was some sort group of people as people are the ones who generally use language. of course, i forgot how the internet has changed everything
second edit: now that i went back and saw no one mentioned a meme before i m not sure why you even mentioned it when we were talking about people and how people talk.
i brought it up to point out that not every twist of language should be taken seriously. while i get that writing off any dialect that isn't "proper" enough for you is problematic, that doesn't mean that any use of language should be revered as some sort of serious dialect.
"this needs folded" is not part of some southern or african-american dialect pattern.
Quote from: jer on March 11, 2015, 04:26:58 PM
i brought it up to point out that not every twist of language should be taken seriously. while i get that writing off any dialect that isn't "proper" enough for you is problematic, that doesn't mean that any use of language should be revered as some sort of serious dialect.
"this needs folded" is not part of some southern or african-american dialect pattern.
my point, whether if it is or isn't, is that it could be because language is a flexible ever growing and ever changing organism, and how do we know that no one speaks that way somewhere in the country where it has become the norm? we don't and therefore making assumptions like you did, going back to my first post, is prescriptivist thinking and in the linguist world is often associated with conservativism and bigotry and other similar lines of thought. thats all i was saying. you can't say any language is idiotic because it simply isn't if its understood. now gobbledegook is idiotic. the gabberwocky is idiotic language, James Joyce's made up words were a fictional dialect. think about that comparison and i think youll see my point of view, even if you don't agree
but by your line of thought, doge-speak is in fact to be taken seriously because of its wide use and it being understood by many. but you're not going to convince many people that it's not idiotic.
probably not but majority linguist agree with me. i was simply, finally, getting to put my minor in applied linguistics to use and maybe i shouldn't assume people are as familiar with linguistic theory as i am, thought i tried to express how i wasn't saying you were any of those things. i'm just trying to say what linguist think and it blew up and seemed like you were insulting my intelligence and you considered my line of thought as pathetic and insultive when nearly all of academia linguist think like i do on the matter (as i learned it from them)
edit: quick example, lets say hypoethtically doge speak just kept growing more and more cause people loved it and continued to grow for 100 years. by the end of that 100 years the very idea of it being doge speak would be forgotten and inane, it would simply be what t is. in essence, and simplified, *this is how all slang/dialect/ colloquial dialect is born*
I'm not trying to insult you and i agree with the underlying point you are making it, i'm just saying you're applying it too broadly if you're including any single twist in language as a serious, newly established dialect.
i didn't see the edit before i replied -- but to quickly address it --I don't think the assumption that every single language quirk will eventually evolve to the accepted standard is a valuable assumption to make any time you see or hear something.
Quote from: jer on March 11, 2015, 04:49:25 PM
i didn't see the edit before i replied -- but to quickly address it --I don't think the assumption that every single language quirk will eventually evolve to the accepted standard is a valuable assumption to make any time you see or hear something.
for gods sake i don't! i was making a comment on how its not idiotic ***FOR PEOPLE**** that all, not htat the phrase itself could be a dialect. that PEOPLE USING IT is not idiotic. cause i had never heard of fucking doge meme . iwas never talking about doge for fucks sake!
i think you might be taking my point, and certainly my tone differently than i am intending. I am not attempting to speak down to you, or call you out on defending doge-speak, as i don't think that's what you're doing. i know you were not speaking to doge, but i am specifically using it as an illustrative example because of it's own self-aware absurdity.
it appears you're taking offense when there is none at all intended on my part, so i'm sorry if it's reading that way.
(note: i have to walk away from a computer for the rest of the night, but please don't take that as me abandoning the conversation or being upset with you)
you're probably right i'm very tired and probably overreacting and misunderstanding some things. its all good, sorry fpr the anger. i don't know why i got all angry and stuff. gonna chill watch some british comedy and go to bed (5 am wake up for work ) g'night
uhhh i just meant like on a personal level it sounds wonky to me, not like oh hey i'm a superior person because i know the right and true Proper English College Educated way to speak. As someone who is always quick to step in when people talk down to anyone with a Southern accent/dialect AND someone who's personal speech patterns/dialect/vernacular is condescended to on a regular basis (just like i'm pretty sure probably everyone woman on this board/in our generation has been annoyingly called a valley girl) that is definitely not what I meant. It's just like how i hate the word "toothbrushes" because it sounds weird...teethbrush? Anyway, just wanted to clear that up.
When people give the wrong information, realize it then say "oh I lied, it's really this"
Apparently giving the notion you're untrustworthy is better than being wrong?
Quote from: jeffjeffington on March 11, 2015, 02:25:03 PM
One Of My Pet Peeves Is When Someone Is Lighting A Gas Range Stove And Leaves It On The Ignite. That Whole Tick Tick Tick Thing Gets Annoying.
Writing Every Word With A Capital Letter.
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My phone wants to do that sometimes.
I hate dongles for software.
My office just bought a new Black Magic cinema camera and its software requires a dongle. So anytime anyone wants to use the software we have to make sure someone else isn't using the software.
I understand protecting all the R&D that a company puts into something, but dongles feel like they punish the legal consumer.
Quote from: Joe on June 03, 2015, 09:02:16 AM
I hate dongles for software.
My office just bought a new Black Magic cinema camera and its software requires a dongle. So anytime anyone wants to use the software we have to make sure someone else isn't using the software.
I understand protecting all the R&D that a company puts into something, but dongles feel like they punish the legal consumer.
My high school used Avid for editing software and it was always such a pain having to ask the teacher for a dongle to work on stuff. At least the name is fun to say. Dongle.
being interrupted. all. goddamn. day.
dongle.
I think most of my pet peeves are related to working in a cube farm. The buzz words, the dongles, the personalized, full-volume ringtones. There is something about the silence of my particular office that adds to the agitation of other sounds.
the reason I was inspired to post today was someone stirring tea behind me. The sound of the tinkling
metal spoon reminding me of another person who scrapes the inside of a plastic yogurt container for what seems like forever. Wouldn't bother me at brunch, but put it in a open office where no one talks and white noise is piped in from the ceiling to mask the fact that you work in a carpeted pole-barn, and it totally becomes the fucking matrix.
So I think my main pet peeve is silent corporate cubical farm environments.
Also, working in propaganda is a pet peeve. I'm realizing that everyone I work with went to some form of creatively focused school, like art school, film school, writing school and we all essentially get paid to create mild propaganda. We call it communications, but it isn't really about communicating anything other than propaganda.
Did you know that the words "Public Relations" only exist because the word "Propaganda" had garnered negative connotations? Freud's nephew, Edward Bernays, came up with it post world war I in order to use propaganda on people during peacetimes.
fuckin' dongles and explainer videos, y'all.
Alright Lindsey, you can finish whatever it was you were saying.
Haha! THANKS I do have a lot to complain about.
I have so many "cube farm" related pet peeves now! BURNT POPCORN? WHY IS IT ALWAYS BURNT? I work in a call center (okay, "virtual receptionist") cube farm so I've been cultivating lots of phone etiquette pet peeves. Like, people making important phone calls from very noisy environments, or 15 minutes before whatever thing is happening and they ABSOLUTELY MUST SPEAK WITH SOMEONE ABOUT THIS PROBLEM IMMEDIATELY BECAUSE THEY DID NOT THINK TO MAKE THIS PHONE CALL ANY SOONER. ugggghhhh people are the worst