Weird pet peeves?

Amazingly enough our English teacher in high school STRESSED to us that the proper term is "I COULD care less" and I argued with that until I was blue in the face.

Now I want to hear what our English majors have to say about it.
 
Grammatically, I see nothing wrong with it. Would I recommend it to the classes that I teach occassionally? Not if my life depended upon it.

Another pet peeve, when you make plans not to make plans on a Friday just so you can hang out on the couch and relax after a bad week, and there is nothing on TV
 
it is grammatically sound, but only one conveys the message: "I am incapable of caring any less about the subject at hand"
 
So when someone says, "I could care less," should we be like oooh is that a threat? Well go ahead and care less! I dare ya! See if I care. See if I care less!
 
My ***** is the untold dollars, pounds, shillings and pence we've spent on destructive activities like war that could have gotten us the hell off this globe ten times over and ended our cabin fever forever....Not meant to be political, it just drives me to madness that we can be this STUPID!
 
That's Andy. I've seen him before - nobody knows where the picture came from. Nobody who can remember anyway...

Mwaa-ha-ha-ha-ha... mwaa-ha-ha-ha-ha...

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Zach Lien said:
dude that alien in your sig is trippy mino. i'll have nightmares tonight
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Yep...He is weird, and you should have seen him when he was eight miles wide (before the 569x70 reg) then he was real trippy!
 
My pet peeve is when people bring dead threads back to life.

Okay seriously I'm watching a Photoshop tut... thanks John for generating a new addiction... and Dr. Brown says HEIGHTH... yeah, high-ttthhh. The word is "height"... as in "HYTE" or "HITE"... there is no th on the end. I hear people say high-th at least once a week and want a rubber stamp that says "moron" for their forhead.

But since I'm adding pet peeves let's not forget fake convertibles.

EDIT: or even worse still is how Premiere says, "Premiere has encountered a problem and must close, if you were in the middle of anything we appologize for the inconvenience"...

Hey dumbasses... If I could sue you for all the lost time from this stupid shitty program I freakin' would! What's the difference between Premiere and Vegas? What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas... Hey I think I'll make that my new sig.
 
Speaking of Adobe, my pet peeve is spending 8 hours inputting subtitles into Encore only to have it crash and corrupt my entire project... 48 hours before it's due at the replication facility.

My other pet peeve is that the bug has not been fixed even though it has been a known issue for over a YEAR.

Sigh.
 
I'll bet I'm not the only one who's bought a bunch of software that just plain doesn't work... oh and once it's opened you can exchange it for another copy of the same program... which doesn't work.

Older versions of GoBack, Roxio, various video games, Premiere 5 point whatever, various business programs... the list is at least in the thousands... it's a freakin' joke. When I hear about all the licensing problems and all that crap I have to pinch myself... I've been a beta guinea pig on so much **** it's nuts... "Oh so if I buy the latest and FOURTH version of this it will finally do what the first version was purchased to do?... jeez I almost forgot to thank you for only charging me for an upgrade again."

I wish Ulead would get some legitimately competing products together... their stuff just flat out works... minimalist code, effective results, rock-solid stability. Remember when they were going to get into NLE's? I wish they had something to compete.

Sorry to rant Owen... I feel your pain.
 
Ulead has Ulead Video Studio 7. I got it free with a firewire card I bought. The problem is it is garbage!

My new pet peeve (cause I got a bunch and this one has been urking me)

When the apartment you rent and have lived in for over a year and a half gets infested with little ants everytime the seasons change and you have to go stalking through your place like a madman with a can of raid killing the inscets. Then you call the management company and they say that they will send in a squad to kill everything, but because you have to work you can't come get your dog out of the house for the 8 hours it takes to be livable.

I might have inhaled too much of this stuff tonight.
 
John Hudson..

Customer Service

All types; Target, Movie Theatre, Gas Station............... wherever.
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Yeah i work at Target....and my pet peeve would be idiotic customers. Sometimes what people may conceive to be bad customer serivice, is really that they are spoiled to thinking everything must go thier way....100% of the time. If we dont have something....we dont have it and thats all there is to it. Most of the time they can't comprehend that...and they end up blaming me personally. I help all customers as best i can...but its hard when guests are acting like bastards.


this doesnt mean you personally john....but thats the other view of it..

and i agree about the credit card thing....i dont know why target thinks everyone on earth should have a target card.
 
Weston said:
Yeah i work at Target....and my pet peeve would be idiotic customers. Sometimes what people may conceive to be bad customer serivice, is really that they are spoiled to thinking everything must go thier way....100% of the time. If we dont have something....we dont have it and thats all there is to it. Most of the time they can't comprehend that...and they end up blaming me personally. I help all customers as best i can...but its hard when guests are acting like bastards.


this doesnt mean you personally john....but thats the other view of it..

and i agree about the credit card thing....i dont know why target thinks everyone on earth should have a target card.
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You are fired :thumbsup:
 
Okay. I might be repeating some earlier pet peeves but the following are a few of mine. And, they are not listed in any particular ranking or order.

10. Witty banter by two news anchors..."thats a sad story Kelly"...."sure is Brock." Irks me to no end. (In fact, I pretty much hate everything about the news in general).

9. Slow walkers. I hate them. I walk like I am trying to get somewhere, because I usually am. But if you are a sllllloooooowwwwwww walker...look the F around you, realize you are not on your own island and let people get around you.

8. Athletes who talk about themselves in 3rd person. "Keyshaun Johnson is going to do what Keyshaun Johnson needs to do!" ...umm, aren't YOU Keyshaun Johnson???

7. Smokers who get annoyed at non-smokers for getting annoyed at smokers. (sorry Yankee, it's nothing personal...this doesn't necessarily pertain to you)

6.Drivers who when they stop at a red light, make sure there are about 5 car lengths between them and the car in front of them. God I hate that. PULL THE F UP!

5. People who blabber on the cell phones at the most inopportune times...in a restaurant, waiter on hand, menu open...but this asshole is trying to do seven things at once..sugar their tea, place an order, and tell their "pooh-bear" at home that he'll be home around 7.

4. I have mixed feelings about this one....producers of TV shows and networks that completely exploit my man-ness by purposely casting HOT women as News Anchors or Food Network chefs, KNOWING I will tune in. Now, I love the eye candy and am almost powerless to stop it. But just 10 years ago, news anchors looked like soccer moms. Now they all look like Miss USA winners. It's contrived, it's a pet-peeve, but I love it.

3. Gay people who talk about being gay ALL the time. I get it. You are gay. I don't care. But why must you feel the need to re-enforce your gayness at every opportunity by publicly announcing how your cried your eyes out when you watched Steel Magnolias? (don't get me wrong, I do a lot of theater and know a lot of gay people. I have absolutely NO prejudices towards orientation whatsoever. Just don't go on a crusade to be a gay mascot. Cause I ain't listening).

2. LOL. This was mentioned before but c'mon this is so annoying. Why cant you just say, "that was funny"? or "good one"? "LOL" bugs me. I apologize if you are a frequent LOL-er, but I just can't hang with it.

1. People who think their bicycles have every right to be on the main highway as a 3 ton truck or car? Come on people. We are talking safety here. You are on a 10-speed, move the F out of the road. You think that 4 oz. helmet is going to protect you? I'll respect you, but don't forget to respect the driver.

That's pretty much all I got right now. I'm sure there are boatloads more.

Ciao-

Rick
 
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