Pet Peeves

[Ten thumbs]

Drivers who park, especially with trucks, on the pavement (that is - the sidewalk).
People who compare to when they are really comparing with.
Finding how difficult it is to avoid peeving others.

[Kullervo]

• People that begin a sentence with "anyways..." or "so..."

• People that don't wear shoes in public places. 

• People that don't wear shirts in public places. Hot weather is no excuse.

• People that let their 1-to-4-year-old child wander around a store alone.

[12tone.]

Well, both are still wrong since it should be a clean open o, not a diphtong of the oe or oa kind, but native English speakers are generally handicapped by an inability to produce clean vowels. But yes, the letter z is generally pronounced ts in German, though the syllables divide more like Moh-tsart.

What?  I'm a Canadian and native English.  Our 'O's and 'A's are wrong?  Um.  No?  Perhaps because the German vowels sound different.  Nothing wrong with that, but that doesn't make our vowels improper.  Wow.

[Lethevich]

Yesterday one of my friends almost got run over by a Land Rover type vehicle which careered onto the path, and when she shouted at them, the woman in the car told her to "fuck off". I hate arrogant idiots who don't know when they are in the wrong, much less apologise for their actions. I only wish a loose rock was handy while the vehicle with its large back window was pulling away (but then, I am a vindictive person).

[Novi]

Yesterday one of my friends almost got run over by a Land Rover type vehicle which careered onto the path, and when she shouted at them, the woman in the car told her to "fuck off". I hate arrogant idiots who don't know when they are in the wrong, much less apologise for their actions. I only wish a loose rock was handy while the vehicle with its large back window was pulling away (but then, I am a vindictive person).

Oh yes, 4 wheel drives for the urban off-road experience. Offends my green sensibilities too. In Sydney, we call them 'Mosman mums' .

[Lethevich]

Oh yes, 4 wheel drives for the urban off-road experience. Offends my green sensibilities too. In Sydney, we call them 'Mosman mums' .

I only wish that they'd flip over when turning sharp corners as often as the government say they do.

[Morigan]

What?  I'm a Canadian and native English.  Our 'O's and 'A's are wrong?  Um.  No?  Perhaps because the German vowels sound different.  Nothing wrong with that, but that doesn't make our vowels improper.  Wow.

He didn't say they were improper or wrong, he said that English speakers don't pronounce clean vowels, and he's right. A lot of stressed vowels in English are pronounced as diphthongs, like the "a" in the word "same" (/seɪm/).

[Ten thumbs]

Oh, I forgot: I really hate the stupidity of really really. Don't they really believe in what they're saying. I note that everything is becoming incredible these days.

[Hector]

This annoys me too... the highway near me has three lanes, and it makes me laugh because almost no one uses the first lane. So, instead of passing people in the third lane, I just drive in the first, "slow" lane and blow by everyone. Seems stupid to not maximize the used road space.

The trouble is that it is against the law.

Tempting, though.

[Hector]

You probably mean the "fast lane" as we say over here. Is so, you are right. But, still, you should obey the speed limits. 

Officially, on British Motorways it is the "Overtake" lane, provided for that purpose, only.

I do obey the speed limits

[andy]

Officially, on British Motorways it is the "Overtake" lane, provided for that purpose, only.

I do obey the speed limits

I've typically heard it called the passing lane or fast lane in the US.

I try to obey speed limits, especially in town, but it's hard to avoid going 5 mph (or 10 km/h although in southwestern Ontario, people some to go more like 15-20 km/h over the speed limit) over on the highway because everyone else is doing it... even in the slow lane, people are going 5 over the speed limit.

[Morigan]

Is it true that Europeans do 200 km/h all the time? How do they manage to stay alive?

[Lethevich]

Is it true that Europeans do 200 km/h all the time? How do they manage to stay alive?

First I've heard of it

[toledobass]

People who mangle the word 'supposedly' by pronouncing it 'supposably'.

Allan

[Lethevich]

People who mangle the word 'supposedly' by pronouncing it 'supposably'.

I read the word "edumacation" in an Amazon comment yesterday - the first time I've seen that word used outside of The Simpsons

[Morigan]

The word "edumacation" is perfectly cromulent and its usage embiggens every day.

[bhodges]

The word "edumacation" is perfectly cromulent and its usage embiggens every day.

But (just supposably) what if an edumacated person decides against being perfectly cromulent, and the usage subsequently disembiggens?



--Bruce

[bwv 1080]

OK how about a pertinent pet peeve:

Multi-CD sets that split multi-movement works between CD's.  To listen to the whole piece without interruption you have to have a CD changer and place the discs consecutively. 

[Lethevich]

OK how about a pertinent pet peeve:

Multi-CD sets that split multi-movement works between CD's.  To listen to the whole piece without interruption you have to have a CD changer and place the discs consecutively. 

That is the bane of Dvorak cycles.

I ran into a historical box a while ago that had Beethoven's 1st spread across disc 1 and disc 5 of the set, possibly the most insane split I've yet seen. Wish I could remember which one it was...

[Lady Chatterley]

Cd's that never get played.