Pet Peeves (What Are Yours)?

People who use kilometres instead of miles.

*Especially if you don't have to. (Like being in a country/from a country that uses miles but deciding use kilometres instead for some reason).. There is just no need!

That's a pet peeve of mine; using kilometres, instead of miles.
Grrr! lol

 

Also; airlines allow you to use air miles, not air kilometres... JK lol (I make myself laugh).

It's just cruel and weird to me that someone would invent a kilometre.

What the hell's a kilometre?! What's so wrong with a mile?

 

When I say thank you to someone for a service, be it a glass of water, dinner, etc. and they respond "no problem" instead of you're welcome.

 

Running a 5K sounds so much longer than trotting 3 miles.

 

I don't know if PF has enough server space for my list.

#1 Bigotry and all kinds of hatred. Life is too short for that nonsense.
#2 People with no manners (can't say "please" or "thank you" or eating like a pig, etc.).

 

Gossipy old hens.

 

When someone says, "Now that's what I'm talking about". Erm, you weren't!!

 

People that pronounce the "t" in "often". It's silent.

 

People who say "pet peeve".

It casts a bad light on pets.

 

I do that often. Why does it bother you?

(if your reasoning is sound, I will try to do it less)

 

I do that often too. Saying youre welcome sounds like an invitation for me to do it again for you. That's going too far.

 

Americans pronouncing certain words on YouTube, makes ya cringe.

 

People who use faux swear words such as frick, frack to pretend they're not swearing. Censorship in songs. Obnoxious slang/phrases such as peachy keen and nifty.

I think the metric system is superior, but it's true I'm more used to thinking of long distances in miles. The metric system is better because it uses powers of 10 for units instead of weird uneven numbers like what, 5,000 something feet per mile.

I'd say I almost always hear people use a t, thinking of Oregon and California. I usually thought people were just being lazy leaving off the t, and yes it did seem to be people from elsewhere in the US with accents, like how Americans butcher the original English all the time. But it is true there are many similar words where I never hear the t used such as hasten, listen, soften. And apparently it's considered okay for the t to be silent in often as well (both considered correct), but the dictionary tends to adopt what a lot of people do all the time, doesn't make it better.

One complaint I have about leaving the T off is it sounds too much like the slang for killing somebody, and would sound exactly the same if somebody was being lazy as usual (offing, "offen").

Maybe I'm biased. I do like how English sounds better in England, Ireland, Australia.. even Canada, compared to all of America and in particular the South.

 

When asked a question the respondent's opening words are "to be honest" blah, blah.

One's immediate thought is so when are you not honest in answering questions?


When a person injects "you know what I mean?" in every other sentence.


Oh, and when toilet paper isn't unrolling from of the underside of the roll which has scientifically been proven to be the wrong way to insert the roll due to germs from one's hand hitting the wall when grabbing the toilet paper.

I have turned many a roll over in other people's bathrooms.

 

I really think the English system is more serviceable, than the metric one. Because it works in combination with fractions, other than just 1/10th, jumping to 1/100th, to 1/1000th (and the reverse: 10×, 100×, 1000×), it can use increments which one can more easily conceptualize, accurately. The English system has a basic unit of an inch, which is more functional than the tiny centimeter (yet still works just as well, because we use 8th-inches, 16ths, 32nds, or even thousandths, with very small distances). Then the English system has the foot. The difference between these two basic units, and the ease of saying "a half foot," enable the listener to immediately grasp the height, width, or length, unlike if I said "37 centimeters." Even though there is technically the decimeter, I have never seen or heard that being used, outside of in an educational situation. So, in practice, for common everyday use, the millimeter has little if any application, and the decimeter is ignored, leaving just the often too small centimeter, and the overly large meter, where the English system has inches, feet, and yards, including fractional portions of each. I don't think I've ever heard anyone say "half a meter," either; they would probably describe that distance as "500 centimeters," which is just a foolishly more indirect way of expressing something, instead of using a more accurately connoting unit, such as by saying, "a foot and a half," or "a half- yard." This flaw of the metric system continues into longer distances, since it uses the shorter yardstick of the kilometer, as its standard, even when talking about more than ten, or a hundred. Therefore, one can measure conceptualize the same distance, using fewer miles, making it easier to compare relative distances.

The same criticism, applies to judging weights, in just kilograms (or grams) as opposed to pounds.

 

I'm not sure if this would be considered a pet peeve, or just an annoyance. It does really bug me, but it is something I encounter on only a fairly rare basis, and generally do not think about, at any other time. But since we have entered the season of Halloween movie countdowns, I will offer this personal irritation, here: whenever movies or television depicts someone running, biking, or driving away from danger and, instead of keeping their eyes on where they are going, turning their head, to look behind themselves, as they continue travelling forward. Has anyone, in real life, ever been stupid enough, to do this?? It is just a cheap dramatic device, to explain the fleer tripping, and falling. It is especially maddening, when they have a character running through the woods, doing this-- sometimes even at night!

It's just ridiculous, and f-ing stupid.

 

Now that sounds like a solid reasoning. I just do it, when the situation is casual, as "you're welcome," in some situations, can seem overly formal.

 

And yet you are more accustomed to thinking of long distances, in miles. This is because it is unnecessary to even know the exact # of feet in a mile, for most practical purposes. If you ask how far a walk it is, to the nearest gas station, and I answer "2 miles," does it matter if those miles have 5280 feet, or 5260 feet? Or 5100 feet? The point is, it would be immensely more difficult, if miles did not exist, for you to conceptualize five thousand, two hundred and eighty feet-- or 1,609.344 meters-- than it is for you to grasp the idea, of a "mile." For that matter, the estimate of someone unfamiliar with miles, of the exact distance of 800 meters-- unless they were familiar with track races-- would probably be less accurate, than the estimate, by a user of the English system, of a half mile-- even if that person was unsure of the exact number of feet, that are in a mile.

 

Perhaps as you get older you learn that "peeves" are not worth getting upset about. In fact they deserve either ignoring or being laughed at.

Having said that, I really squirm about two things.
One, the constantly repetitive use of "like" or "yaknow" when someone is speaking.
And the habitual use of the word "sat" when referring to the past continuous, as in "I was sat".
This has become common in the UK and has infiltrated even the newsreaders on BBC.
Truly a bastardisation of the
English language.

 

It's an expression. It means that the person likes, is in agreement, with whatever has just been said. Are you, then, pretending that everything you utter, can be taken literally? Do you use no figures of speech, whatsoever? If someone tells you they were really sawing wood, last night, and you know that they're alluding to sleeping, do you answer, "Erm, no you weren't?" If you do, you sound like a real peach.

 

Does this apply, to only "service" personnel, or also to friends? If this bothers you, regardless, I would guess that it probably is due to only the way you were brought up, to greatly emphasize the following of standardized forms of etiquette, and adhere scrupulously to prescribed, stylized, social customs of formalized politeness.

But that would just be a guess, as I'd said.

 

Only one of those two items, I think, really fits the "pet peeve," concept. I would contend that the word "pet," suggests that it is somewhat connected, especially, to oneself. That is to say, one would not list murder, for instance, or pedophilia, or even rape, among one's pet peeves. I will acknowledge, however, that some certainly would count, among their pet peeves, the habit of correcting others, in their misuse of figures of speech.

 

100% agree.

 

' " Do I know you .. ? "
"You're asking ME ...? ! '

" Dude ... "
" Bro ... "


" It be like — "
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A variant of that, is the repeatedly asking "right?" after one's contentions, when positing some opinion, but to do so in a clearly rhetorical way, not expecting the listener to object, even if they are not in full agreement with whatever the speaker has just put forth. It is a gimmick, it seems to me, to get the other party to seem to be concurring with you, perhaps even tricking some into believing that they agree with things, that they really don't. Very passive- aggressive. I hear MSNBC'S Chris Hayes, doing it all the time. But also others, of that network's hosts, as well, as well as their guests, so it may be an affectation, principally of Progressives (which I guess I would be considered, though not one who goes along with the fads, just to show that I'm hip, or that I'm one of you).

The one, which most definitely is used as a signal, of this type-- I get it; I subscribe to all the same ideas as you, from the Progressive memo-- and which really annoys me (but for reasons of syntax), is the beginning of sentences, with no justifiable reason to do so, with the word "so," instead of the word which has traditionally filled that roll (of just being a launch pad, for someone who doesn't want to immediately leap into their thought), "well."

It just sounds so stupid to me-- when, ironically, the people who habitually follow this practice, believe it makes them sound smarter. To my ears, They might just as well be saying, "so ANYWAY..."

And when you hear a conversation among a group, who are all interjecting "so," and "right?" in this extraneous manner, it just sounds mockably ludicrous!