Small things that get to you very easily

[Don Corleone]

I certainly hope not.

[SwordsMaster]

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

I hope I never do

[Ja'chyra]

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

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]

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]

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

I HATE HATE HATE 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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[Fragony]

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.

Oh and I also hate liars

[Don Corleone]

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

[Ja'chyra]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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". They are 2 different words for a reason.

[Al Khalifah]

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]

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]

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

But they sound identical, don't they?

[Proletariat]

But they sound identical, don't they?

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

[LittleGrizzly]

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]

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]

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]

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!"

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]

When users write the same as they speak.

Example

Waths happeni yo!!!!!!

[discovery1]

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.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

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...

[Byzantine Prince]

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]

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.