You Know What Grinds My Gears? - Things that personally piss you off

[Sped Xing]

To piggyback on what others have said about grammar, I get irritated when I see, “Such and such BE LIKE.” When did it become the norm to communicate like uneducated dumbasses?

And while I’m at it, how about the phantom T? “Curtains” become “cur-ins”, “mountain” becomes “moun-in”, etc. The worst I ever heard was “tattoo” becoming “ta-oo”. TA-OO! WTF?

As an Anglo-Saxon from the time of Bede, it infuriates me how people don't pronounce the "k" or the "e" in "Knife." "Naif?" WTF

 

[Exuvia]

I can easily overlook small misspellings and other minor grammatical errors, but people putting apostrophes where they aren't supposed to be really irritates me for some reason. Maybe it's because the rules about when to use them are honestly pretty straightforward.

 

[SITHRAK!]

To piggyback on what others have said about grammar, I get irritated when I see, “Such and such BE LIKE.” When did it become the norm to communicate like uneducated dumbasses?

And while I’m at it, how about the phantom T? “Curtains” become “cur-ins”, “mountain” becomes “moun-in”, etc. The worst I ever heard was “tattoo” becoming “ta-oo”. TA-OO! WTF?

This is your language on Ebonics.
Most people regard the theory that ‘black culture’ is being weaponized for use against white success as extremely fringe. And yet more and more people I see using the written word to communicate are using Ebonics slang. Because it’s ‘cool’ and writing at the fifth grade level is apparently for faggots.
The terminal decay stage has just started now. Technology has gifted the human race its most effective communications systems ever. Even the poorest and most underprivileged people now have smartphones. And yet, written English is rapidly devolving into an unintelligible mess of black slang, words invented on the fly, and simplistic pictograms.
The children of the rich and powerful might use this vile argot on social media, but you can bet that their school homework is flawless. Except for maybe that black guy whose family got him into Harvard when his application was literally ‘Black Lives Matter’ written a hundred times.

 

[Meat Target]

Kiwis who necro threads from years ago.

Search queries giving me irrelevant results (such as YouTube giving me Keith Olbermann when I searched for Invasion of the Body Snatchers.)

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

Manchildren who refuse to eat any vegetable that isn't a potato and meat that isn't fried chicken.

 

[The Curmudgeon]

People jaywalking when there's incoming traffic. It will never not piss me off. I don't care if you're in a hurry or whatever, if you're a normal thinking adult then you have no good reason to do that. If you don't get hit, then you're still potentially causing an accident. If you want to jaywalk, then do it when there is little or not traffic. Better yet, just use a goddamn crosswalk.

 

[Pargon]

Tinnitus. I shouldn't need earbuds to concentrate and white noise to fall asleep. I swear to God half of my headaches have to be from my brain overworking itself to tune this shit out. Sometimes I just want to enjoy the quiet and I never can because EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

 

[X Pac Heat]

When they mention thermal vision in video games or movies and it ends up being the gay ass grey and white military shit and not blue/red/green/orange/yellow predator shit.

 

[Flavius Claudius Julianus]

I can easily overlook small misspellings and other minor grammatical errors, but people putting apostrophes where they aren't supposed to be really irritates me for some reason. Maybe it's because the rules about when to use them are honestly pretty straightforward.

I used to work as a writer in advertising, and let me tell you I have seen everything where shitty grasps of the English language are concerned. So many senior partners and managers who are functionally illiterate, you have no idea.

When I see correct, handwritten signage, I almost want to shake the author's hand in respect.

 

[Windows XP Home Edition]

To piggyback on what others have said about grammar, I get irritated when I see, “Such and such BE LIKE.” When did it become the norm to communicate like uneducated dumbasses?

And while I’m at it, how about the phantom T? “Curtains” become “cur-ins”, “mountain” becomes “moun-in”, etc. The worst I ever heard was “tattoo” becoming “ta-oo”. TA-OO! WTF?

In linguistics, that's a glottal stop/plosive which is prescribed in the IPA as ʔ.

 

[Sped Xing]

I can easily overlook small misspellings and other minor grammatical errors, but people putting apostrophes where they aren't supposed to be really irritates me for some reason. Maybe it's because the rules about when to use them are honestly pretty straightforward.

I agree with this. I think people should relax about pronunciation shifts and gradual changes in meanings of words for the same reason raging against the weather is useless.

But when it comes to written communication, which is necessarily artificial, I'm much more conservative. Punctuation isn't an inherent human behavior that can't ever really be controlled or dictated; it's an agreed-upon system for improving communication. Fucking that up is like saying "repeat" when you mean "say again" on the radio. It's not just different; it's actually wrong.

 

[clusterfuckk]

People jaywalking when there's incoming traffic. It will never not piss me off. I don't care if you're in a hurry or whatever, if you're a normal thinking adult then you have no good reason to do that. If you don't get hit, then you're still potentially causing an accident. If you want to jaywalk, then do it when there is little or not traffic. Better yet, just use a goddamn crosswalk.

Especially when they are crossing a busy street; 10 feet away from the actual crosswalk. I don’t understand the fucking stupidity. These are the same people who cry when people get hit and want to make bike and pedestrian lanes.

Branch covidians are really pissing me off lately. It’s like a competition of who can scream propaganda the loudest.
stfu, wear your 10 masks and a hazmat suit and be on your goddamn way.

 

[DavidS877]

People jaywalking when there's incoming traffic. It will never not piss me off. I don't care if you're in a hurry or whatever, if you're a normal thinking adult then you have no good reason to do that. If you don't get hit, then you're still potentially causing an accident. If you want to jaywalk, then do it when there is little or not traffic. Better yet, just use a goddamn crosswalk.

Oregon has a law that every intersection is a crosswalk, which is fine, if annoying. The real problem is the idiot drivers who see someone who might be trying to cross in the middle of a block and try and stop for them. Not being smart enough to realize the other 3 lanes of traffic are not going to stop. Similarly people who let people exit side streets or parking lots without being sure that they're not going to be creamed by the next lane over instead of letting them wait 20 seconds for traffic to clear.

 

[Punished Magician]

If I have to start getting ready the second after you tell me about something, then no, you did not by any stretch of the meaning "tell me about it in advance".

 

[The Curmudgeon]

Especially when they are crossing a busy street; 10 feet away from the actual crosswalk. I don’t understand the fucking stupidity. These are the same people who cry when people get hit and want to make bike and pedestrian lanes.

Exactly. I will never feel sorry for people who get hurt and/or killed from doing that. I know this will sound awful, but I feel that stupid jaywalkers deserve to die. They're practically asking for it anyway.

Oregon has a law that every intersection is a crosswalk, which is fine, if annoying. The real problem is the idiot drivers who see someone who might be trying to cross in the middle of a block and try and stop for them. Not being smart enough to realize the other 3 lanes of traffic are not going to stop. Similarly people who let people exit side streets or parking lots without being sure that they're not going to be creamed by the next lane over instead of letting them wait 20 seconds for traffic to clear.

Fair enough. I also hate stupid drivers. They're the other side of the coin. If a pedestrian is using the crosswalk like they should, then drivers need to honor that and let them cross! On the same note, these same drivers should be paying attention to the road. People like that shouldn't be allowed to drive.

 

[SITHRAK!]

I agree with this. I think people should relax about pronunciation shifts and gradual changes in meanings of words for the same reason raging against the weather is useless.

LOOK AT THIS SHIT
LOOK AT IT
HOW DOES ANYONE ROB TOOLS
TOOLS DON’T FUCKING OWN ANYTHING
THIS IDIOCY STARTS WITH THE SPOKEN LANGUAGE DECLINING
AND ENDS WITH SMH FAM /100 YEE YEE CLAP EMOJI CLAP EMOJI

 

[Coffee Druid]

I like cooking. I try to do it as often as I can. But I'm also the only person who cooks in this house. Because of this I guess the people I live with expect me to make a homecooked meal almost every day for dinner. Whenever I don't feel like cooking for a day, or want to eat leftovers/quick microwave food, it's like I'm a terrible person.

Well, it's really only one person here who makes me feel that way. They never cook or do chores around here so as far as I'm aware they can live with it. Don't take advantage of my generosity. Make yourself a sandwhich.

 

[Neurotypical Mantis]

friday night funkin

 

[Pargon]

LOOK AT THIS SHIT
LOOK AT IT
HOW DOES ANYONE ROB TOOLS
TOOLS DON’T FUCKING OWN ANYTHING
THIS IDIOCY STARTS WITH THE SPOKEN LANGUAGE DECLINING
AND ENDS WITH SMH FAM /100 YEE YEE CLAP EMOJI CLAP EMOJI
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If the person driving the truck can fix shit competently and safely I’m willing to cut them slack. There are different intelligences and if you told me, a Good Grammar User, to fix a water heater or die, well brother you’d soon be down one bullet. Gender Studies graduates can have excellent writing skills for their bullshit papers but they’re still a net loss on society.

Thing tax: HD game remasters that fix piddling shit to the exclusion of QoL improvements. This Mass Effect rerelease is a great example. Yeah, great, less shots of Miranda’s donk, whatever, too bad I still can’t fucking equip all my squad mates at once on the Normandy in ME1 and I still have to click on their individual shitty lockers to outfit them. That shit was ponderous in Two Thousand and Late and they never fixed it.

 

[DavidS877]

Thing tax: HD game remasters that fix piddling shit to the exclusion of QoL improvements. This Mass Effect rerelease is a great example. Yeah, great, less shots of Miranda’s donk, whatever, too bad I still can’t fucking equip all my squad mates at once on the Normandy in ME1 and I still have to click on their individual shitty lockers to outfit them. That shit was ponderous in Two Thousand and Late and they never fixed it.

I forgot how much better ME2 was with the 'no damn minigames' mod along with the 1 probe to scan a planet mod.

And they didn't even get rid of all the gratuitous shots, still plenty when you're not in her office.