Small things that get to you very easily [Archive]

Beirut

05-11-2005, 12:17

When my kids say "It was so fun!" No dear, it was fun, or is was so much fun. Or a lot of fun. But not so fun.

Also, people who use the word bath as a verb. "I'm going to bath my two-year old." NO! You are going to bathe your two-year old. The letter E was invented just for this reason.

But the worst, the most annoying, the most insidious disruptor of the intellectual process, is the term "baby" as it's used these days in commercials. As in, "Buy Cornflakes, baby loves them." or "This soap is soft on baby's skin".

:furious3: ARRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!

It's the baby, a baby, my baby, your baby. Not just baby.

And when I hear some heinous beyotch say "I'm going to bath baby." Well, death row is looking me in the eye because Im going to strangle the very life out of the mother just so her kid doesn't grow up and learn to speak like her.

Fragony

05-11-2005, 12:24

Beirut

05-11-2005, 12:37

You can't use the word baby without putting, a, the, my, your, before it.

They're not saying babies love Cornflakes. They're saying baby loves Cornflakes. They're trying to personalize a collective and it sounds really, really stupid.

The difference in the words you cited is simply that one spelling right and one is wrong.

Fragony

05-11-2005, 12:40

The difference in the words you cited is simply that one spelling right and one is wrong.

Still I see a lot of thru and tho, internet slang I guess ~:)

English assassin

05-11-2005, 13:00

Grocers' apostrophes. (Eg using an apostrophe in a plural, "Apple's 50p a pound, banana's a pound a bunch")

Also people writing its for it's and vice versa.

I wouldn't say they get to me, I just assume any native English speaking person who does it is thick.

I'm not sure I agree that verbing nouns is annoying though. And I thought thru was an American spelling?

Ser Clegane

05-11-2005, 13:08

Grocers' apostrophes. (Eg using an apostrophe in a plural, "Apple's 50p a pound, banana's a pound a bunch")

OMG - this is really going rampant here in Germany - and in German spelling you don't even use the apostrophe for the genitive

But see for yourself (http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,PB64-SUQ9MTAyODkmbnI9Mw_3_3,00.html)

Some of these examples only make sense if you understand German - my personal favourite is #16

Don Corleone

05-11-2005, 13:16

I hate, hate, hate ~:furious3: it when people spell night as 'nite' and right as rite. It's almost always done in marketing, and it makes me think that advertisers or product marketing people think we must be dumb as dirt.

Go to the local breakfast diner, and what do they have on the menu? The WORST of them all.... prepare yourselves.... a tend-'A' loin biscuit. GAH! ~:furious3:

TheSilverKnight

05-11-2005, 13:27

But see for yourself (http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,PB64-SUQ9MTAyODkmbnI9Mw_3_3,00.html)

Some of these examples only make sense if you understand German - my personal favourite is #16

Omg that's hilarious Ser! ~D even better 'cause I know German...lmfao *laughing at the pictures*... ~:cheers:

What really bothers me is when people spell things wrong when it's just a few letters that need to be typed...like...'u' or 'c ya' instead of 'see you'...*shudders* :furious3:

KukriKhan

05-11-2005, 13:48

OMG - this is really going rampant here in Germany - and in German spelling you don't even use the apostrophe for the genitive

But see for yourself (http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,PB64-SUQ9MTAyODkmbnI9Mw_3_3,00.html)

Some of these examples only make sense if you understand German - my personal favourite is #16

Lexica's

On No! We have infected the Germans now ~:eek:

I admit my guilt for using thru and tho', for through and though (or although). There has been a trend to drop the 'ough' or convert it to it's sound, in US english, since there is so much varience.

I guess I've been on the internet too long now to let creative spelling bother me much. However, one that makes me cringe is "of" being used for "have".

"I should of driven slower.", for "I should have driven slower.". I understand where it comes from ('of' is how the contraction should've sounds), but 'of driven' makes no sense.

Nelson

05-11-2005, 14:32

“Irregardless”
I even hear news anchors use this one on occasion.

“I could care less”.
They always mean “I couldn’t care less” but few people get it right.

The word “too” too often gets reduced to “to”.

Ja'chyra

05-11-2005, 14:48

“I could care less”.
They always mean “I couldn’t care less” but few people get it right.

I use this, but follow it with "But I'd be dead"

What bugs me?

Mostly people, I am very comfortable with my own company and rarely get bored so I really have to be in the mood to put up with people, and I really hate people who talk too much (Like my wife does, mainly at bed time). Right now I am at work and there are poeple here who spend all day talking, it gets on my nerves, I wouldn't mind but they talk so much and say nothing.

And another one, round dodgers, need I say more. ~:cheers:

edit: Oh, and, made up sayings like "Thinking out of the box" what the hell does that mean, I'm not in a box.

Duke Malcolm

05-11-2005, 16:21

Bad grammar, bad punctuation, bad spelling, holding one's cutlery incorrectly, socialism, a lack of meat in the main meal of the day, the denouncing of the sacred name of cheese, someone not liking potatoes,and (worst of all) tea with no sugar are the things that get to me...

There are a lot more, but the list would be too long.

Redleg

05-11-2005, 16:29

so many - to many to name actually

The Wizard

05-11-2005, 16:33

Br33ZaAH language.

Yes, just keep it locked up in cu2 with all the other loonies (like badpakboi) and spare me...

Misplaced arrogance... i.e. people who don't deserve to be arrogant but are so anyway.

Idiots... you want to diss them but they are just too stupid to understand...

And last of this selection... lag on my PC.

~Wiz >_

Big King Sanctaphrax

05-11-2005, 16:34

People using adjectives instead of adverbs-"Look how fast he's running!" "He perfomed poor".

Goofball

05-11-2005, 17:06

One word:

Irregardless

English assassin

05-11-2005, 17:35

People using adjectives instead of adverbs-"Look how fast he's running!" "He perfomed poor".

It had to happen.....fast is an adverb as well as an adjective......

Yrs

Mr Pedant

Lazul

05-11-2005, 17:36

narrowminded people... cant talk to them.

English assassin

05-11-2005, 17:38

The_Mark

05-11-2005, 17:39

Ahh.. The apostrophe. It's annoying, isn't it? Good thing about Finnish that there are no apostrophes in it.

Fortunately...
Bob's quick guide to the apostrophe, you idiots (http://www.angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif)

Also available as a poster.

Big King Sanctaphrax

05-11-2005, 19:09

It had to happen.....fast is an adverb as well as an adjective......

Yrs

Mr Pedant

Woops-I appear to have tripped myself up... :embarassed:

Byzantine Prince

05-11-2005, 19:21

People who are to stupid to even associate with. I get frustrated because I know they are idiots and if I get this strong urge to tell them. I wish I lived in a world where idiots were whiped out.

Another thing is the word 'feduciary'. I can't f4cken stand it when people use that word, it angres me beyond anything! :furious3:

Nelson

05-11-2005, 20:41

People who are to stupid to even associate with.

Ah, that would be "too stupid", damn it!

Nelson

05-11-2005, 20:49

Ever heard anyone in the office ask for statistics for “physical year 2004”?

Not calendar year or fiscal year but physical year. Ay caramba.

The Wizard

05-11-2005, 21:04

People who try to be smart using terms from other languages but make terrible mistakes. Like CA in RTW -- 'Vae victus'. GAH!!!

~Wiz

Big King Sanctaphrax

05-11-2005, 21:06

People who try to be smart using terms from other languages but make terrible mistakes. Like CA in RTW -- 'Vae victus'. GAH!!!

~Wiz

Er, Latin Noob here-What's wrong with that? I always thought it meant 'woe to the vanquished'.

Kanamori

05-11-2005, 21:24

"I could care less" gets my blood flowing...

other than that, people telling me to say "well" when I really mean the noun "good".

I've found myself accidently typing "there" instead of "their", so that doesn't get me too upset. On many of the technicalities, I am often unsure. That's why I got me "Elements of Style".
~:cheers:

The Wizard

05-11-2005, 21:26

Er, Latin Noob here-What's wrong with that? I always thought it meant 'woe to the vanquished'.

No, that's 'Vae victis'.

Vae = nominativus; that's the subject form.

victis = dativus; the form used for 'giving'. When translating, it adds 'to' to the word. So I just used the English dativus.

In the wrong RTW version, it's 'victus', which is the nominativus form, which means the translation is 'Woe defeated'.

~Wiz

t1master

05-11-2005, 21:30

folks at my work asking me for my john henry when they need me to sign something. i always tell them, john henry was a steel driving man, it's my john hancock you want... ~;)

DemonArchangel

05-11-2005, 22:21

Political Conservatives. Just irritating.

PanzerJaeger

05-11-2005, 23:35

People drawing outrageous comparisons.

"George Bush is the 21st century Hitler!"

:no:

Productivity

05-12-2005, 02:39

'feduciary'

Fiduciary? Why? It is a useful word when applied correctly.

Byzantine Prince

05-12-2005, 02:42

The way it sounds irritates me. Someone should make up another word for it so us feduciaryphobes can rest in peace. ~:)

Proletariat

05-12-2005, 02:45

When I'm Queen of the Planet I'll have everyone quartered who I can recollect saying, "at this point in time" when they could simply have said "right now" or "now."

Also, anyone I can remember having said "co-conspirator." You don't need a frigging 'co' there since you can't conspire by yourself, anyhow!

Oh and I truly will feel sorry for anyone foolish enough to have said 'irregardless.'

For good measure, also the jerk who coined the term 'automobile.' Why he thinks he can mix ancient Greek with Latin is anyone's guess, but we can ponder it while watching him swing.

:hanged:

KukriKhan

05-12-2005, 02:47

The way it sounds irritates me. Someone should make up another word for it so us feduciaryphobes can rest in peace. ~:)

OK: trust.

Just made it up. Use as you see fit.

ichi

05-12-2005, 03:05

I really hate it when people throw their ciggy butts out the car window.

I wish I lived in a world where idiots were whiped out.

*gets out his whip*

I assume that you meant 'wiped'

Be careful what you wish for

ichi :bow:

Byzantine Prince

05-12-2005, 03:09

For good measure, also the jerk who coined the term 'automobile.' Why he thinks he can mix ancient Greek with Latin is anyone's guess, but we can ponder it while watching him swing.

:hanged:

Well the Romans used Greek words in their vocabulary as well. That's why English has 90% of all it's Greek inspired words.

Productivity

05-12-2005, 03:09

I really hate it when people throw their ciggy butts out the car window.

I'm tempted tosay that doesn't qualify for this thread, as it's not a small thing, given the destruction fires caused by cigarette buts can cause.

Proletariat

05-12-2005, 03:15

Well the Romans used Greek words in their vocabulary as well. That's why English has 90% of all it's Greek inspired words.

Sure, but it's just shoddy to blend languages half way through a word.

Quietus

05-12-2005, 03:19

I just wish people won't use "their", "there" and "they're" as interchangeably equal. :dizzy2:

Also "should of" as in "should of been" ~:eek: :embarassed: "Should HAVE been". ~D

Byzantine Prince

05-12-2005, 03:23

Sure, but it's just shoddy to blend languages half way through a word.
Then you would hate a lot of other words like television. It's not that bad.

JAG

05-12-2005, 03:23

People who are so ardent in their belief of God at a young age.

GoreBag

05-12-2005, 03:39

Without getting too offensive with my list, I'm just going to say that every grammar and spelling error previously mentioned (including the German ones) burn my arse. Also, I hate spilling things, and I hate furres.

bmolsson

05-12-2005, 03:47

Worst is people that calls you and don't say anything......

ichi

05-12-2005, 05:37

folks at my work asking me for my john henry when they need me to sign something. i always tell them, john henry was a steel driving man, it's my john hancock you want... ~;)

Damn uppity goats getting my trash, now that'll make me angry ~:)

ichi ~:cheers:

good to see you over here :bow:

Pindar

05-12-2005, 06:09

I would like to take this moment to denounce the sacred name of cheese. :charge:

Papewaio

05-12-2005, 06:14

People who don't understand science trying to use it to support their social/political agenda.

InsaneApache

05-12-2005, 07:57

ok a few things...

Cold wet bread....

People who raise the pitch of their voice at the end of a sentance, so they sound like they're asking you a question. It gives the impression that they think you're stupid as you should know what they're talking about. (ALA Australian soaps)

David Beckhams voice....I just want to squeeze his neck until his pips squeak, just to shut him up. ~;)

Ja'chyra

05-12-2005, 08:13

Here's some more:

People who say you shouldn't use the word "Brainstorm" because it's offensive to epileptics, no it's not I asked some. Damn PC brigade.

Ugly stupid people with children, they shouldn't be allowed to breed.

Dubbed TV adverts, if they are too cheap to make a new advert what makes them think I'm going to buy their product, this holds true for adverts that are, well, pants, like the policewoman dancing while directing traffic.

People bumping into me in pubs, it only takes a second to say "Excuse me" or "Sorry".

People who use big words to sound important when you know that it's the only big word they know.

People from reality TV shows.

Reality TV shows, that's not reality.

My next door neighbours, but there's no way you caould call her small, she hung her washing on the line last week and could only fit 1 pair of pants on it, the line's about 15m long. ~:eek:

There's bound to be more.

English assassin

05-12-2005, 10:34

Dubbed TV adverts, if they are too cheap to make a new advert what makes them think I'm going to buy their product, this holds true for adverts that are, well, pants, like the policewoman dancing while directing traffic

Good call, and while we are on the subject, imported products that have silly names that they can't be bothered to rename for the UK. I am NOT cleaning my windows with something called "Bang", even if Bang does mean "window cleaner" in Turkish or Estonian.

Meetings. Meetings are not work, they are what stop you doing work.

Oh, and by an obvious train of thought, management consultants. And estate agents who they so closely resemble.

Byzantine Prince

05-12-2005, 11:58

Another thing that I hate is how people always say "get your butt in here", "sit your butt down", "I'm gonna kick your butt". Why do they have to add the gross word butt in every command when it's totally unnecessary? GAH!

Another thing that I hate is when people try to correct every simple word's spelling like they are better and somehow more educated then you even though you just made the mistake because you typed it in a hurry. GAH!

:furious3: :furious3: :furious3: :furious3: :furious3: :furious3: :furious3:

Somebody Else

05-12-2005, 12:28

Actually, I'd like to alter my previous statement...

Not all children, usually just boys from about 10 to 17 (18 if American). They get right up my nose.

There are exceptions, of course, and girls can be just as annoying.

Oh, and taxes too. Small (non-existent) at the moment, but I can tell they're going to really upset me.

King Edward

05-12-2005, 13:02

I dont mind the spelling mistakes as my spelling is abysmal. usually if i cant spell a word, i'll try and find and alternative word to use. Or Spell check ~:)

Paul Peru

05-12-2005, 14:03

Cigarette butts thrown in inappropriate locations without causing fires or any other major misfortune.

Tobacco smoke in my eyes or nostrils.

The smell of tobacco smoke on my person/attire/grilfriend.

Gratuitous use of car horns.

People who are
(ignorant OR stupid) AND (arrogant OR pretensious)
/*this is true if one or both of the conditions on either side of the AND are true*/

Reality TV, soap operas.

Girlfriend watching reality TV, soap operas.

Norwegians not using Norwegian properly.

Duke Malcolm

05-12-2005, 14:37

what about someone who is stupid, ignorant, arrogant, and pretensious?

Duke Malcolm

05-12-2005, 14:38

I would like to take this moment to denounce the sacred name of cheese. :charge:

BLASPHEMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Paul Peru

05-12-2005, 16:38

what about someone who is stupid, ignorant, arrogant, and pretensious?
You talking to me? ~;)
Well, they are covered. I didn't say XOR :wiseguy:

Duke Malcolm

05-12-2005, 16:44

People who are
(ignorant OR stupid) AND (arrogant OR pretensious)

Two ORs. Sorry, but I hate people proving me wrong...

Pindar

05-12-2005, 18:25

BLASPHEMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

~D Your post was funny. It demanded a reply.

The Wizard

05-12-2005, 19:09

Kids aged 8-14... Damn I hate their respectless, stupid, annoying, pseudo-funny but truly very sad behavior! ~:pissed:

And I hate having to search for the damn angry smiley which I want, which is not in the quick smileys section!!! ~:pissed:

Edit: Oh, and scared as shit people who can't stand my way of debating -- dissing someone when he makes a damn stupid remark/asks a damn stupid question. That kind of people lost me a EYP! GAH!

~Wiz

t1master

05-12-2005, 22:35

Damn uppity goats getting my trash, now that'll make me angry ~:)

ichi ~:cheers:

good to see you over here :bow:

w00t!

can you show me that whip again ~;)

discovery1

05-12-2005, 23:38

"Push on" sinks that don't stay on,
Moths, and other people using internet explorer on this computer over firefox.

Don Corleone

05-12-2005, 23:46

People who act like they want to talk about a serious issue but cannot or will not stay on topic and insist on using any story in the news as a partisan screech.

Byzantine Prince

05-13-2005, 00:00

People who act like they want to talk about a serious issue but cannot or will not stay on topic and insist on using any story in the news as a partisan screech.
Gawain?

Don Corleone

05-13-2005, 00:06

What makes you think it's any one person? I do it too... and I do piss myself off when I stop and come to my senses.

ichi

05-13-2005, 02:46

can you show me that whip again

no but I found this

http://users.aol.com/shorthill/goat.gif

Back on topic, I also seriously dislike telemarketers

ichi :bow:

Proletariat

05-13-2005, 02:47

Racist leftists.

Beirut

05-13-2005, 02:51

People who wear their baseball hats backwards.

Are they trying to look retarded or does it just come naturally?

Byzantine Prince

05-13-2005, 02:51

Racist leftists.
Who? ~;)

Papewaio

05-13-2005, 03:31

People who wear their baseball hats backwards.

Are they trying to look retarded or does it just come naturally?

I wear my baseball cap backwards when the sun is behind me and I have no collar on... to avoid sunburn...

Beirut

05-13-2005, 03:35

(Beirut ponders the depths to which his troubles will plunge to if he calls a Chief Mod a retard...)

Oh well! That's completely different and perfectly reasonable. :yes:

KukriKhan

05-13-2005, 03:41

Papewaio

05-13-2005, 03:43

(Beirut ponders the depths to which his troubles will plunge to if he calls a Chief Mod a retard...)

Oh well! That's completely different and perfectly reasonable. :yes:

Considering I get yearly checkups for skin cancer it would be retarded of me not to protect myself from the sun. In normal situations the cap faces forward... but at certain times of the day I have to look after the back of my neck.

Devastatin Dave

05-13-2005, 03:56

**peeks over shoulder to see if the wife is behind him**

My wife says "you know" a lot. Of course I do have a tendancy to say "um" when I'm nervous or when i first meet someone. I get on my own nerves with that!!! LOL

Beirut

05-13-2005, 12:12

I flip my ballcap backwards when I need to see without obstruction.

Surely a rifle shooter understands that concept.

Well.... if you're trying to hit a 10X at 100 yards then you may do as you wish. :bow:

Except flinching. I hate it when people flinch on the trigger. I also hate it when people pull the trigger and their whole shoulder goes flying back with it like their pulling something that weighs 300lbs.

Al Khalifah

05-13-2005, 12:29

Political Correctness gone mad. Its not 'black coffee' its 'coffee without milk.'

Self-proclaimed experts. I read the Da-Vinci Code, I am now the foremost authority of Judeo-Christian theology. My mother and farther are doctors, I therefore am also despite having a 'qualification' in Social Studies. I read Dude Where's My Country, so now I would make a superior president to George Bush.

Daytime television.

Degrees in Social Studies, Management Studies, Leisure Management Studies, Business Management, Sociology, Social Management Studies, Media Studies, Advertising and Media Studies, Film Studies..... get a job!

People who use words from other languages when one from their own will do. Its just so, so, so... je ne sais what and it makes me want to pugnavit those that do things like that. Shit-kopfs.

Individual sachets of ketchup. Either give me a decent portion or trust me to use a bottle myself, I'm not anorexic or a moron.

Paul Peru

05-13-2005, 13:28

Political Correctness gone mad. Its not 'black coffee' its 'coffee without milk.'
Was it Mobutu who said

I like my coffee like my women; hot, black and in a pot
or is it from a dream? Today he would have said "non-lactating", of course. :furious3:

I'm not anorexic or a moron.It's all those anorexic morons who force them to use those :furious3: sashays.
:furious3: anorexic morons!

~;)

Adrian II

05-13-2005, 13:42

Daytime television.Major irritant. Followed closely by nighttime television. Thank God we have some public broadcasting companies left that make quality tv, usually on Sundays. And thank God for our British, French and German neighbours who haven't lost the art either.
Degrees in Social Studies, Management Studies, Leisure Management Studies, Business Management, Sociology, Social Management Studies, Media Studies, Advertising and Media Studies, Film Studies..... get a job!I hate to break it to you, but these studies actually lead to real jobs. That is by far the worst part of it: there is an actual demand out there for 'leisure marketing advisers' and 'mediahype training counseling supervisors' and what have you.

KILL!! KILL!!

Excuse me. Back to work, AdrianII...

Fragony

05-13-2005, 14:03

Excuse me. Back to work, AdrianII...

Yeah right, and that comes from someone that says daytime television is bad.

Al Khalifah

05-13-2005, 14:54

I hate to break it to you, but these studies actually lead to real jobs. That is by far the worst part of it: there is an actual demand out there for 'leisure marketing advisers' and 'mediahype training counseling supervisors' and what have you.
I know, but the thing is anyone can do these jobs without these qualifications. The qualification basically stands for... Yes, I can speak lots of bullshit and sound like I know what I'm talking about/keep a straight face.

SwordsMaster

05-13-2005, 16:05

I flip my ballcap backwards when I need to see without obstruction.

Surely a rifle shooter understands that concept.

~D

edit: Note to Papewaio: they don't get much sun up there in the great north. ~;)

I kinda do that too... Of course I am a rifle shooter ~D

What really really gets me is people telling me how to do things that I know how to do already without even asking me if I need their advice or not. :furious3:

Don Corleone

05-13-2005, 16:19

Oooh, I see you've met my mother-in-law. ~D

Adrian II

05-13-2005, 16:20

Yeah right, and that comes from someone that says daytime television is bad.Didn't I also say nighttime tv is bad? ~:cool:

Adrian II

05-13-2005, 16:22

Oooh, I see you've met my mother-in-law. ~DHaven't we all? ~;)

Don Corleone

05-13-2005, 16:25

I certainly hope not.

SwordsMaster

05-13-2005, 16:35

Oooh, I see you've met my mother-in-law. ~D

I hope I never do ~D

Ja'chyra

05-16-2005, 15:22

Got some more:

People who spell colour as color, I don't care where you're from you're spelling it wrong. The same goes for metre, humour etc.

People who write the month as mm/dd/yy, it's dd/mm/yy see it's sequential :furious3:

News programmes showing gimmicks instead of the news, for example BBC news where doing an article showing that people where spending less in shops so the presenter gets in a lift and the camera zooms in on the green down arrow lighting up. Just tell me the damn news, I'm not a 5 year old child or retarded ffs.

People blaming McDonalds for getting them fat/People blaming the bank for giving them a £100,000 bank loan, step up and take responsibility, freaks.

AH, I feel better now. ~:)

Al Khalifah

05-16-2005, 15:40

People who say "summits" instead of "something".

Restraunts menus that say ponsey things like "pan fried onions" - how else did you fry them? Deep fried?

People who can't talk to you unless you can both see one another without turning heads. Seriously some people are incapable of speaking to you without walking over and standing directly infront of you or right next to you. For serious conversations this is necessary, but for small talk its kind of annoying when you're trying to do something have someone follow you like a dog.

Don Corleone

05-16-2005, 15:45

I thought of one when I was driving down the highway with my wife yesterday.

I HATE HATE HATE :furious2: it when people misuse the term 'persuasion'.

Example of offending behavior: "People of the Asian persuasion". No Asian, or Asian-American for that matter, made a decision to be Asian, they simply are! Being of a persuasion means that you hold that view!

Fragony

05-16-2005, 16:18

Have to add cell phones. What is it with these wretched things that NO MATTER WHAT YOU ARE DOING once the siren goes of everything else is of secondary importance????

That AND people that call me on my cell-phone for something completely insignificant. I hate talking over phones, it is no real communication. Tell me the next time you see me damnit!

LittleGrizzly

05-16-2005, 16:34

People who write the month as mm/dd/yy, it's dd/mm/yy see it's sequential

@#$%!!!! that really gets to me as well !!!

Al Khalifah

05-16-2005, 16:46

Yeah, it just breaks the sequence of what you expect to see. if I asked how long something took I wouldn't expect..

ME: How long did it take to bake that cake?
STRANGE: Oh it took 4 hours, 19 seconds and 3 minutes.

Get the order right!

Don Corleone

05-16-2005, 18:37

I don't know how it got to be different, but in the US, it is mm/dd/yyyy. Sorry, I hate to break it to you, but we didn't do that solely to irritate Europeans. Despite what you think, we do occassionally institute practices and policies for reasons other than to thumb our noses at you.

And who's to say you're right? Over 50% of the world's population, Asia, say it's yyyy/mm/dd. Are you doing that just to piss the Chinese off?

Duke Malcolm

05-16-2005, 18:42

Ahh, but the asians just do our way backwards...

Fragony

05-16-2005, 18:43

Don Corleone

05-16-2005, 18:45

Ja'chyra

05-16-2005, 18:50

Temper temper Don, the thread is what things get to you, that gets to me.

What I don't get is why the US would be different as I would think that they used the same method as Europe at one point,

Don Corleone

05-16-2005, 19:04

I'm not steamed, and I agree, the US system makes no sense at all. If you try to put the date in the file name of a computer file, they don't sort properly at all. But I actually like the Asian way better, as it's the way I think about it. When you give an address, you start with a country and you finish with the apartment number, not vice versa.

Somebody Else

05-16-2005, 19:31

As far as I know, the decision to spell colour "color" and all the other similar spelling differences was actually due to a concious decision to break with England. I believe it was Webster, when he wrote his first dictionary...

Don Corleone

05-16-2005, 19:37

Well, there you have it. I was wrong, we WERE thumbing our noses at you. But it apparently transpired 190 years ago.

Live and learn.

SwordsMaster

05-16-2005, 20:36

People who write the month as mm/dd/yy, it's dd/mm/yy

I hate that too! THE most stupid practice since granting voting rights to everyone.

At least if you get it in the yyyy/mm/dd, it still makes some sense, but why oh why would you start with a month?

Its like starting with the 3rd digit of the year or something. Absolutely random.

I'm not steamed, and I agree, the US system makes no sense at all. If you try to put the date in the file name of a computer file, they don't sort properly at all. But I actually like the Asian way better, as it's the way I think about it. When you give an address, you start with a country and you finish with the apartment number, not vice versa.

Actually in Europe (well, in Spain, France, Italy, Portugal and Ireland I know for sure) you start with the apartment number.

And I also HATE when people say "wonder" when they mean "wander". :furious3: They are 2 different words for a reason.

Al Khalifah

05-16-2005, 21:15

I hate when you ask someone what they want to eat/drink/do and they respond with anything/whatever/dunno.

That'll be rat droppings/poison/be run over repeatedly with a bus then.

Idomeneas

05-16-2005, 22:36

i hate people that spit when they talk, i hate junkies asking for their dose money, i hate overcrowded clubs where your drink gets in your eye everytime somebody pass by. I hate freakin 30 euro winsor&newton brushes that get ruined after one inking.

Byzantine Prince

05-16-2005, 23:09

And I also HATE when people say "wonder" when they mean "wander". :furious3: They are 2 different words for a reason.
But they sound identical, don't they?

Proletariat

05-16-2005, 23:17

But they sound identical, don't they?

Wander is like wand-er (yanno, like a magic wand.) The other is like one-der.

LittleGrizzly

05-17-2005, 00:47

I don't know how it got to be different, but in the US, it is mm/dd/yyyy. Sorry, I hate to break it to you, but we didn't do that solely to irritate Europeans.

its you americans that did that ? should have known ;) i wouldn't mind the asian model but mm/dd/yy just confuses me...

Don Corleone

05-17-2005, 00:55

Well, it would bear out whether we did it on purpose to give the finger to England to hear how Canada does it. Canada still spells colour and valour, so if they use your date format, that's probably it. If they use ours, it must be something else. I mean, we didn't abandon the metric system (oy vey, how easy it was too) to piss Europe off.

Sadly, we abandonded the metric system because it's too hard. Now, before everyone snickers about American math education, I don't mean it's too hard to continuously multiply and divide by powers of 10. I mean it's too hard to convert back and forth. If we had JUST STOPPED CONVERTING, we might have had a shot at sanity, but hey... Funny thing about the metric system... in American universities, if you're in biology, chemistry, physics, or an electrical engineering, you use the metric system. If you're in civil engineering, mechanical engineering, or any other physical science (such as geology), you use "English" units. Makes interdisciplinary research, especially sharing computer models, a bitch.

Kaiser of Arabia

05-17-2005, 00:58

People misprounoucing my last name (Its PIAZZA not PIZZA or PYEAHZAH!) and people calling me a Nazi or a Communist. Or when people think I'm Jewish. Or Protestant. Or when Marine Recruiters try to recruit me (Im on my third one this year), Ditto for Army recruiters.

Don Corleone

05-17-2005, 01:02

Capo, I know you can't serve, but they're not trying to piss you off. Give them a break, they must look and you and see 'a guy who can carry two bazookas!" ~:cheers:

As far as the name thing goes, George Carlin said "To be an American and not a WASP is to have your name mispronounced your entire life by your teachers".

Not sure why the religion thing bothers you, but if it makes you feel any better, Jesus was a Jew.

AggonyKing

05-17-2005, 01:51

When users write the same as they speak.

Example

Waths happeni yo!!!!!!

discovery1

05-17-2005, 02:12

Funny thing about the metric system... in American universities, if you're in biology, chemistry, physics, or an electrical engineering, you use the metric system. If you're in civil engineering, mechanical engineering, or any other physical science (such as geology), you use "English" units. Makes interdisciplinary research, especially sharing computer models, a bitch.

What? I'll get to use english units as an aerospace engineer? That gets to me too. :furious3:

Alexander the Pretty Good

05-17-2005, 03:08

The high concentration of minor annoyances is driving me to the point where I am considering slitting my wrists.

Well, not really. But you get the idea.

I despise program code that isn't spaced neatly, like mine is.

Must... Control... Fist... of Death...

:furious3:

Byzantine Prince

05-17-2005, 03:19

People contradicting me when they have no idea about the subject being spoken about. It's not normally here on the board or else I would come, but in real life.

Papewaio

05-17-2005, 03:35

Wander is like wand-er (yanno, like a magic wand.) The other is like one-der.

Which in a lot of phonetic groups wand is pronouced like won-d or one-d so it sounds the same. Aussies would pronouce them fairly closely to wun-der.

Somebody Else

05-17-2005, 09:15

I write what I speak... then again, I speak like I write too... no-one ever seems to understand me.

Hmm... I pronounce wonder 'wun-der' and wander 'wahn-der'

Dates... I use day/month/year - it's only logical... however, filing on my computer (only for photos really...) I use year/month/day. All depends on where it's being used. Either way makes sense... but having the day in the middle is just silly.

Paul Peru

05-18-2005, 09:23

Well, actually, I could see adopting the Asian model, but not the European one.

To offer an analogy of my own...

"How long did it take you to write your book?"

"It took me 37 seconds. And 12 minutes. And 3 hours. And 11 days. And 4 months. And 2 years". Makes perfect sense to me :dizzy2:
Agreed!
The only logical order is
yyyy/mm/dd (I don't think anyone shuffles minutes and hours about ~:) )
I also accept yyyy.mm.dd and yyyy-mm-dd

I hate it when some bottle says "use by 04.05.06"
:furious3: When is that?

Al Khalifah

05-18-2005, 09:35

People who touch my monitor with their grubby fingers when they want to point at something on the screen.

Paul Peru

05-18-2005, 09:56

People who touch my monitor with their grubby fingers when they want to point at something on the screen.
:furious3: Why do they do that?

LittleGrizzly

05-18-2005, 10:09

People who touch my monitor with their grubby fingers when they want to point at something on the screen.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

how did i not remember that one!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ive had to resort to punching people everytime they touch my screen as no matter how many times i told them not to touch the screen they would forget.

Ser Clegane

05-18-2005, 10:19

People who touch my monitor with their grubby fingers when they want to point at something on the screen.

I do that a lot ... it's actually fun (especially poking laptops) :yes: :hide:

Al Khalifah

05-18-2005, 10:32

Even worse, than that - much worse - is when someone else has been using your computer and they have failed to cover their mouth/nose in time for a cough/sneeze.

The next time you use your computer you find yourself staring at a screen covered in horrible little snot globule splatters. Eugh.

doc_bean

05-18-2005, 12:50

Paul Peru

05-18-2005, 13:21

People who don't get my jokes.

Recent example: I made the old joke "Sex is a race and I never lose" ,
idiot's comment "but that is losing !"

It was at least the fifth time he had said something that stupid that night, I think everyone was ready to punch him by that point.

(on a side note: I was only making a joke, I do, occasionally, lose)
Sometimes I hate it, sometimes it's amusing. If I know that I have friends within earshot who will get the joke, then the non-getter is just another bonus joke-butt.