Pet Peeve of the Day
 

Ok, today this is my pet peeve. I've had this come up in many conversations lately for no particular reason.

If you don't care about something, say
"I could NOT care less."
This means you already don't care. You can't care less than 0%.

If you say
"I could care less"
Then you are saying you DO care, and you could care a little less than you already do. This does not make sense when you are trying to explain how LITTLE you care about something.

Use your BRAINS, people!

Ok, next! Anyone else have any pet peeves they need to vent?

How about when people say "irregardless" instead of "regardless," though it is becoming more widely acceptable as an alternative: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irregardless :)

I personally hate it when someone uses the wrong form of there, their, or they're in conversation... then I have to stop everyone and ask which form they meant to use, spell it out, and then correct them...

It becomes very time consuming, and difficult in crowded bars especially.

You took the words right out of my mouth. I HATE it when people say that.

how do you do that in conversation?

"There she is"

"Excuse me, but can you specify your use of "there"? :1orglaugh

smartass :)

I absolutely hate when people say "I could care less" and recently I find that they say that version much more than the proper one.

The worst is "for all intensive purposes."

:mad:

"could of" instead of "could have"

I haven't heard that one before!

Yeah, I know a lot of people who say "I could care less." to which I reply "It's nice that you care."

when someones says "not a problem" when you tell them no, etc....

hey jackass, I didn't ask it it was a problem

"I could NOT care less." ??? ive never said that in my life

:thumbsup:thumbsup:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

using the phrase "for some reason" but no reason at all...

It doesn't much to do with posting on GFY, but when I slow down to let someone merge in front of me and I don't get a courtesy wave, I feel like exploding into a violent rage. Just a wave of the hand, doesn't have to be much, just something that says thanks for helping me out.

Argh I hate when people say "I could care less" too.. Idiots murdering the english language..!!!

Another one is how to pronounce "culinary". Even tv hosts just say "cull inary" instead of the proper "cue linary". It's the CU rule of english dammit!

Who says "cum ulative" or "a cum ulate"?? nobody thats who..

It's all just the dumbing down factor. We're all idiots in our own way, hehe.

I hate more than anything when the words (like and you know) are everyother work in a sentance while talking

Example: A girl talking on the phone:
I was talking to my girlfriend and like she was like so stupid, you know, and I'm like why are you such a bitch and um I'm fucked your boyfreind last night, and he was like, you now, I really hate my girfriend she gives shity head. and I'm like i totally understand, you know

"Let's see if we can't ...." annoys the shit out of me.

LOL welcome back to junior high school!! :1orglaugh

People that spell LOSE and LOSER as LOOSE and LOOSER. Also people that spell NO ONE as NOONE. NOONE is that guy that sang for Hermin's Hermits in the 60's

for those that don't know it's "intents and purposes".

Another bad one is the coloured people who say 'you see what I'm sayin' all the time...

UNless you were posting this naked, I could care less! :)

What really ticks me off is when I'm ready to check out at a grocery store with a lot of items in my cart and there's longer lines at each register except for the express lane (12 items or less) which is totally empty and I look at the people in the regular lines and they only have a couple of items, so instead of going through the express lane without a wait, they wait in a regular line making me longer, just to piss me off !!! ha ha ha.

Ok ok. here is a real one!!!

People who say " one fail swoop"


WHAT THE FUCK DOES FAIL mean??? NOTHING!!!

The statement is a perversion of " One Fatal Swoop " Get it fucking right!

I hate hearing these Midwesterners ask for "POP" at restaurant. Its Soda or Coke or Pepsi not POP.

Rofl, ha ha, I'm one of those people, we all say pop up here. We have a friend from down south, who always says soda and we make fun outta him, ha ha.

I call it pop too, I'm not from the midwest. Washington calls it pop too.

In the DEEP south, it's "coke". So if you want an orange flavored carbonated beverage down there, you ask for an "orange coke".
I kid you not! lol :)

1st off, it's not just Midwesterners.

I think pop is acceptable and I am from the Midwest. I've heard that people in Texas ask what kind of Coke you have...which is all kinds of messed up in my head unless you are asking what Coke products you have and not what types of pop you have.

I think there are 3 acceptable terms: pop, soda, or soda pop

You can't refer to what is inside of your plastic cup as Coke or Pepsi if you are drinking Mt. Dew. Pop is a general term for types of carbonated soda.

ha, I always thought that was one fell swoop, from Shakespeare I think

I hate it when people mispronounce words like Nuclear, they'll pronounce it 'Nu-q-ler' or people pronounce words like Italian with the long I sound instead of the short i sound like 'it'. Thanks for allowing me to vent...

That just reminded me, I hate it when people of Italian or Spanish heritage say certain words with ridiculous accents, but say everything else normally. I know how they say mozzarella in Italy, but you've never been there, so say like the rest of your words!!!

I've got a twist on that one....Express line is not open. Someone has a cart full of enough product to feed an army, coupons as thick as the Sunday (newspaper) edition and uses a check to pay. I get in line behind him/her with 2 items-1 of them being ice cream. Person sees what I've got, before it's their turn to check out, and proceeds to check out anyway.

Anyone who gets in line behind or next to me with just a couple of items, I always let them get ahead of me.

yeah i see this a lot in here.

also.. i see common misuse of 'than' and 'then'

it's not a pet peeve for me tho... shit if i point out to people about their mistakes, they can easily say.. 'i can't even understand your accent, AK!" :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

'prolly' instead of probably - so fucking lazy, it makes me sick :)

My pet peeve of the day dont have anything to do with vocabulary. Besides, I couldnt really talk since I make mistakes in English myself, but I have a reason since its not my first language...

That kind of people popping up on my icq is my pet peeve though:

221571068 ‎(4:42 PM):
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Mediachick ‎(4:42 PM):
hi. im good thank you.
221571068 ‎(4:43 PM):
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from [email protected]
Mediachick ‎(4:43 PM):
for?
can I help you with anything?
221571068 ‎(4:44 PM):
buying traffic from us
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yuvutu.com
jizzhut.com
etc..
Mediachick ‎(4:44 PM):
I see. I didnt get no email
is this spam lol
221571068 ‎(4:44 PM):
can I have u'r mail address again plz?
no
Mediachick ‎(4:45 PM):
I'd rather not. have a wonderful day.
221571068 ‎(4:45 PM):
go fuck
Mediachick ‎(4:45 PM):
I would love to but I have some work to do

Actually, I believe it's from "one fell swoop." Fell in this case meaning hellish or evil.

fell 2 (fl)
adj.
1. Of an inhumanly cruel nature; fierce: fell hordes.
2. Capable of destroying; lethal: a fell blow.
3. Dire; sinister: by some fell chance.
4. Scots Sharp and biting.
Idiom:
at/in one fell swoop
All at once.